About the lot N° 156
Title : Perry, Charles. , A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece. London: Printed for T. Woodward [&c.], 1743
Literature : Blackmer 1291; Hilmy II, p.108; Weber II, 523; Atabey 940Notes : Charles Perry (1698-1780), a physician, travelled extensively between 1739 and 1742 in France, Italy and the East. He travelled up the Nile to Aswan, providing the earliest description of the Temple of Isis at Behbit el-Hagar, and the frescoes in the tombs of the Beni Hasan necropolis. Most of the plates in this work illustrate Egyptian antiquities.Sotheby's, auctioneer, London, UK
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Sale title : Greece and the Levant: A Private Library
Sale date : 13 Nov 2008
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