Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (Muwaffaq al-Din) | Relation de l'Égypte, Paris, 1810, morocco gilt

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Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (Muwaffaq al-Din)

Relation de l'Égypte par Abd-Alatif, médecin de Bagdad; suivie De divers Extraits d'Écrivains Orientaux, et d'un État des Provinces et des Villages de l'Égypte dans le XIVe siècle. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1810

First French edition, 4to (262 x 201mm.), half-title, errata leaf at end, later nineteenth-century morocco gilt, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, small professional restoration at outer margin of half-title, some light spotting

A very good copy of what is considered to be one of the first works on Egyptology (whose author was born in c.1162), containing a detailed description of monuments.

PROVENANCE:

Rev’d. John Noble Coleman: bookplate

LITERATURE:

Brunet I, 9