Shelfmark
Go.3.04
Author
Title
Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1798. By W. G. Browne..
Edition
Second edition, enlarged..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand; and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row., 1806..
Physical description
[2], xxxv, [1], 594, [2], 594-632 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 29 cm. (4to)
Note
Signatures: [pi]² a-d⁴ e² B-4F⁴ 4G² [4F]-[4K]⁴.
Note
Printer's statement on verso of h.t., p.594 and p.632: "Strahan and Preston, New-Street-Square, London".
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Addenda and Corrigenda on p.593-594, with Directions to the Binder on p.594.
Note
Plate facing title page signed "L. Mayer. del." and "J. Neagle sc.".
Note
With an advertisement leaf on 4G2.
Note
Includes explanatory footnotes.
Note
Includes tables of weights and measures.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library on front pastedown.
Binding
20th/21st-century quarter-bound marbled paper and brown calfskin over millboards. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets between leather and paper. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with double gilt fillets and titling ("Brown's travels in Africa &c"; "London 1806").Textblock not trimmed. Endpapers of modern undecorated paper including pastedowns; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
This copy does not present p. 595-632.
Subject
Egypt Description and travel.
Subject
Sudan Description and travel.
Subject
Middle East Description and travel.
Added entry--name
Neagle, James, 1760? - 1822 engraver.
Added entry--name
Mayer, Ludwig, 1791 - 1843 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--name
Cadell & Davies bookseller.
Added entry--name
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme bookseller.
Added entry--name
Strahan and Preston printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50933