Title
The present state of Egypt; or, A new relation of a late voyage into that kingdom. : Performed in the years 1672. and 1623. By F. Vansleb, R. D. Wherein you have an exact and true account of many rare and wonderful particulars of that ancient kingdom
Title Variants
Alternative:
New relation of a late voyage into that kingdom
Alternative:
Present state of Egypt
Uniform: Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte
By
Wansleben, Johann Michael, 1635-1679
D'Assigny, Marius, 1643-1717
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, printed by R[obert] E[veringham] for John Starkey, at the Miter in Fleet-street, near Temple-Bar, 1678
Notes
Name of printer supplied by Wing.
Name of possible translator from John Carter Brown Library bibliographical file.
Translation, perhaps by Marius d'Assigny, of author's: Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, d'un voyage fait en Egypte, first printed Paris, 1677.
Preceded by a preliminary licence leaf dated June 20. 1678 and signed by Ro. l'Estrange.
Pages [5-8], 1st count, are a four-page address to the reader signed by M.D.
Signatures: [A]⁴ ([A]1 recto, [A]2 verso blank) B-R⁸ (R7 verso blank) S⁴
Includes index.
Title page printed within double rule border.
Bookseller's advertisements, p. [7-11], 3rd count, list works relating to America.
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996) | W711.
ESTC | R38063.
Subjects
1678
,
Antiquities
,
Catalogs, Booksellers'
,
Coptic Church
,
Description and travel
,
Egypt
,
Great Britain
,
Imprint 1678
,
Natural history
,
Pre-Linnean works
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.86299
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