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EGYPT] DENON, DOMINIQUE VIVANT, BARON. Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt ... London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Three volumes, period brown calf, neatly rebacked retaining original labels. 8 x 4 3/4 inches (20.5 cm x 12 cm); 392; 312; 366 pp., with 60 folding plates and maps (N.B. the plate list in volume III indicates 61 plates in all, but one of these, plate 38, is erroneously listed twice, one in the first and once in the third volume). Minor foxing, overall a clean set; Together with BELZONI, G. Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia... London: John Murray 1821. Second edition. Calf-backed marbled boards. 11 x 8 1/2 inches (28 x 22 cm); with portrait, two plates and folding map. Light wear, some leaves towards the end of the volume stained. C