Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia; and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon Giovanni Battista Belzoni

DEACCESSIONED FROM THE LEVETT COLLECTION IN 2023. 2 volumes with illustrative plates of researches, title page and frontispiece with a lithographed portrait of Belzoni, atlas of plates, 4 x parts, part 1 with 44 plates on 34 sheets, 4 hand-coloured, part-2 (dated 1822) with 6 plates (5 hand-coloured and one printed in black and yellow), binding and covers in contemporary red straight-morocco gilt, marbled sides (neat restoration to joints), text bound to match. Two volumes containing collections of plates of prints, all but 4 hand-coloured. First edition, published by John Murray, Albermarle Street (London).