Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice; and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon. By G. Belzoni.
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823).
Category
Books
Date
1820
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3054445
Summary
Bibliographic description
xix,[1],533,[1]p., frontis., plates . ill.., port.., maps . 4to.. Not indigenous. Bookworm damage to endpapers and some text leaves. Provenance: Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf over boards; blind armorial centrepiece stamps of the Bagot family, with baron's coronet; spine gilt; brown calf spine label with title "Belzoni's Travels"; sewn on five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823). Sarah Belzoni (1783 - 1870)