Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai

London: Richard Bentley, 1853. Second edition with additions and corrections, Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very good condition. Large Octavo. xvi, 455 [4]pp., 2 plates, one folding. Original light brown pebbled cloth with blind-stamped decorative image and ruling on covers, gilt lettering and tooling on spine. Yellow endpapers. Color frontispiece. Engrave vignette on title page.

"The purpose of the Scientific Expedition, sent out in 1842 by his Majesty the King, was an historical and antiquarian research into, and collection of the ancient Egyptian monuments, in the valley of the Nile, and the peninsula of Sinai. (Author's Preface).

Illustrated with a color lithograph frontispiece of Mount Barkal (Nubia) by W. L. Walton, a folding map of Egypt, and the higher Nile countries to Lepsius's letters from Egypt & Ethiopia, 1852, a plate showing 'Inscriptions on the north wall of the Convent of Mount Sinai, and numerous in-text depictions of hieroglyphs, scores and plans. Contain appendix and index at rear.

Binding with light wear along edges, small chip at head of spine and lightly rubbed. Library plate on inside front cover. Library stamps on versos of frontispiece and title page, bottom of page one and end of index. Binder's sticker on inside back cover. Numerous pages unopened at foredge. Block lightly age-toned. (Inventory #: 54998)