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68 2391 Africa Egypt Vyse H 68 2391 Africa Egypt Vyse H 68 2391 Africa Egypt Vyse H 68 2391 Africa Egypt Vyse H 68 2391 Africa Egypt Vyse H 68 2391 Africa Egypt Vyse H 68/2391 [Africa. Egypt]. Vyse, H. Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account into upper Egypt, and an Appendix. London, J. Fraser, 1840-1842, 3 vols., XX,292,(1); X,(2),368; XII,148p., 128 (fold./ double-p.) lithogr. plans/ profiles/ plates i.a. by F. ARUNDALE after E.J. ANDREWS, ills., modern unif. giltlettered hcl., 4to. - Vol. 1 lacks frontisp.; vol. 1 and 2 lack htitle; new endpapers. Plates occas. (sl.) foxed/ sl. waterstained. = First and apparently only edition. Blackmer Sale 1070; Gay 2276; Blackmer 1754: "Vyse visited Egypt in 1835 and became interested in the excavations at Gizeh being carried out by Caviglia. He began to take part in the work, though at an early stage he disassociated himself from Caviglia. (...) The first part of the book describes a journey to Upper Egypt made in November 1836. The interesting appendix in vol. II contains exerpts from the works of travellers to Egypt and forms a curious sort of bibliography." "'His researches and those of Perring were of great importance in elucidating the early history of Egypt.'" (Blackmer Sale citing Dictionary of National Biography). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.