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
OCLC: 879345969