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Travels through Sicily and that part of Italy formerly called Magna Græcia. And a tour through Egypt, with an accurate description of its cities, and the modern state of the country. Translated from the German, by J. R. Forster, F.R.S.
Riedesel, Johann Hermann von, 1740-1785.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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The antiquities, natural history, ruins, and other curiosities of Egypt, Nubia, and Thebes. Exemplified in near two hundred drawings, taken on the spot, by Frederic Lewis Norden, ... The whole engraved on one hundred and sixty-four large plates, including a portrait of the author, by Martin Teuscher, of Newremburg.
Norden, Frederik Ludvig, 1708-1742.Date: 1792
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Travels and adventures of Edward Brown, Esq; formerly a merchant in London. Containing his observations on France and Italy; his voyage to the Levant; his Account of the Isle of Malta; his Remarks in his Journies thro' the lower and upper Egypt; together with a brief Description of the Abyssinian Empire. Interspersed throughout With several curious Historical Passages relating to our own as well as Foreign Nations; as also with Critical Disquisitions as to the present State of the Sciences in Egypt, particularly Physic and Chemistry.
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]
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Observations on the passage to India, through Egypt, and across the Great Desert; with occasional remarks on the adjacent countries, and also Sketches of the different Routes: By James Capper, Esq; Colonel in the Service of the Hon. East India Company.
Capper, James, 1743-1825.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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Travels, between the years 1765 and 1773, through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, into Abyssinia, to discover the source of the Nile : comprehending an interesting narrative of the author's adventures in Abyssinia, and a circumstantial account of the manners, customs, government, religion, history &c &c of that country : being the substance of the original work / by the late James Bruce.
Bruce, James, 1730-1794.Date: [1812]

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Egypt - Description and travel

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Travels through Sicily and that part of Italy formerly called Magna Græcia. And a tour through Egypt, with an accurate description of its cities, and the modern state of the country. Translated from the German, by J. R. Forster, F.R.S.

Observations on the passage to India, through Egypt, and across the Great Desert; with occasional remarks on the adjacent countries, and also Sketches of the different Routes: By James Capper, Esq; Colonel in the Service of the Hon. East India Company.