Visconti, Giammartino Arconati.

First edition, 2 volumes, text and atlas, 4to (305 x 254mm.), half-titles, presentation copy, both volumes inscribed by the author "à Miss Paulina Schletter", 40 albumen prints after paintings by Emile Pierre Metzmacher (average 115 x 160mm., or the reverse), individually mounted with printed captions on the mount, 8 plates, folding engraved plan of Petra, folding coloured lithographed map of 'Arabia Petrea,' other illustrations in the text, original crimson cloth, [Gay 3650 bis; not in Weber or Hilmy], covers stamped in blind and gilt, flat spines gilt, gilt edges, some occasional spotting and dust-soiling, extremities heavily rubbbed, some stains to covers of atlas

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An uncommon illustrated account of travels in Egypt and Jordan by the Italian geographer Visconti in 1865, focusing on the antiquities of Egypt, Sinai, and the ancient city of Petra.