A Bok, Africana, 1816, Thomas Legh
Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the country beyond the Cataracts.
London, John Murray, 1816. 4to. VIII, (4), 158 pp. + folding engraved map + one folding facsimile plate of inscriptions.
Sentida halvskinnband, utan förtitelbladet, lätt lagerfläckad. / Modern quarter calf, without half-title, lightly foxed.
OBS: Detta exemplar innehåller 10 extra akvatintplanscher av I. Clark efter teckningar av T. Legh.
NB: This copy contains 10 additional aquatint plates engraved by I. Clark after drawings by T. Legh.
First edition. Legh travelled in Egypt 1812-1813 in the company of Reverend Charles Smelt, whose journal Legh used in his narrative. Exploring above Aswân, they reached as far as Nubia, where they were among the first modern explorers to examine the temples.
Gay 2103. Ibrahim-Hilmy, l, p. 364.
Wear.
Provenance
Karl Becht was a teacher at the Lundsberg School in Värmland, with geography as his main subject. He started collecting books in the early 1930s and specialised in illustrated books of voyages and travel, exploration and discoverey. ”The Karl Bech collection” was given a separate catalogue for its sale at Bukowskis in 1991.