Howard VYSE. Operations Carried On At the Pyramids of Gizeh - Lot 81

Howard VYSE. Operations Carried On At the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 London, Fraser, 1840. 2 volumes in-4, green percaline (Publisher's binding). I. XX-292-(1f.) / II. X-368-(1f.) // Blackmer, 1573 /// (1f.)-XXIX-730-(6f.) // Blackmer, 1583 /// XVI-503. 61 hors-texte plates including 2 frontispieces, one folding map, 17 folding plates and plans and 41 hors-texte plates. A partially unbound copy, with a split inner hinge on the second volume. Charles-Sigisbert SONNINI. Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt London, J. Debrett, 1800. In-4, contemporary calf binding damaged. Second English edition, illustrated with a portrait engraved by Bonnel after Anker, a folding map and 27 plates. Binding damaged, one cover detached, foxing to map and plates. False title missing. - Jesse Ames SPENCER. The East: Sketches of Travel in Egypt and The Holy Land. New York and London, George Putman, 1850. In-8, brown half-chagrin with corners, cloth boards with special gilt motif, 5-rib spine decorated, gilt edges (Publisher's binding). A frontispiece and 7 hors-texte lithographed plates by Brandard and Sarony, some after J.B. Atkinson, an hors-texte folding plan, and illustrations in the text including 2 maps. Inscription in brown ink on dedication leaf. Spine redone with original spine rebacked, endpapers renewed, foxing.