Egypt - Description and travel
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An account of the French expedition to Egypt comprehending a view of the country of Lower Egypt, its cities, monuments, and inhabitants, at the time of the arrival of the French; and a particular description and measurement of Pompey's Pillar, Illustrated by a Plate. By Charles Norry, Member of the Philotechnical Society, and one of the Architects attached to the Expedition. Translated from the French.
Norry, Charles, 1756-1832.Date: 1800- E-books
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Travels and adventures of Edward Brown , Esq; formerly a merchant in London. Containing his observations on France and Italy; his voyage to the Levant; his Account of the Isle of Malta; his Remarks in his Journies thro' the lower and upper Egypt; together with a brief Description of the Abyssinian Empire. Interspersed throughout With several curious Historical Passages relating to our own as well as Foreign Nations; as also with Critical Disquisitions as to the present State of the Sciences in Egypt, particularly Physic and Chemistry.
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- E-books
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A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea , on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a route through the desarts of Thebais, in the year 1777: with a supplement of a voyage from Venice to Latichea; ... In letters to a lady. By Eyles Irwin, ... Illustrated with maps and cuts. ... In two volumes.
Irwin, Eyles, 1751?-1817.Date: 1787- E-books
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Travels through Turkey in Asia , the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and other parts of the world: Giving a particular and faithful Account of what is most remarkable in the Manners, Religion, Polity, Antiquities, and Natural History of those Countries: with a Curious Description of Jerusalem, as it now appears, And other Places mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Thompson, Esq; Interspersed with the Remarks of several other modern Travellers; illustrated with Notes, Historical, Geographical, and Miscellaneous, by the Editor; and adorned with Maps and Prints.
Thompson, Charles, fl. 1750.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- E-books
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The antiquities, natural history, ruins, and other curiosities of Egypt, Nubia, and Thebes . Exemplified in near two hundred drawings, taken on the spot, by Frederic Lewis Norden, ... The whole engraved on one hundred and sixty-four large plates, including a portrait of the author, by Martin Teuscher, of Newremburg.
Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708-1742.Date: 1792