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Description : engraved plates, maps and plans, one coloured, 2 folding, half-title, spotted, contemporary half roan, rubbed, [Blackmer 269], folio (450 by 290mm.), Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1821 ''In May, 1815 he [Cailliaud] left Constantinople for Egypt where he was well received by Mehmet Ali and engaged by him to explore the desert and to search for the emerald mines of Mt. Zabarah known to the ancient Egyptians. He found the mines, which had been exhausted by previous workings and were no longer commercially viable. During this expedition he explored the grand oasis of Kargeh and found temples mentioned neither by Poncet nor Browne.'' (Blackmer). A second volume was published some 40 years later, in 1862, but is very rare.
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