Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 138
WILSON, Robert Thomas (1777?1849). History of the British E...
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WILSON, Robert Thomas (1777?1849). History of the British Expedition to Egypt. London: printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton, 1802. 4to. Stipple?engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Ralph Abercromby by Meyer after Hoppner, 3 large hand?colored folding maps, 2 folding letterpress tables (some offsetting). Full contemporary speckled calf, upper cover with a central gilt supralibros of George Granville Leveson?Gower (Duke of Sutherland), raised bands, red morocco spine label gilt, compartments tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers (joints a bit tender with some splitting near ends, spine extreme ends worn, corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this firsthand account of this expedition to west Egypt under the command of Abercromby.
