Lot 139
Belzoni, Giovanni Bastista. Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, 2 volumes, third edition, half-titles, lithographed portrait frontispiece, lithographed plate, folding map, folding plan, some spotting, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1822; Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia, 39 [of 44] lithographed views on 32 leaves, 34 hand-coloured, 2 folding, leaf of descriptive text, folio, London: John Murray, 1820, bound with; Six New Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 4 folding, some creased, folio, London: John Murray, 1822, contemporary half calf, worn, boards detached (3)
RARE.
The folio lacks views nos. 4, 5, 27, 41 and 42.
