2 vol. including Atlas, first edition, text lacking half-title, lithographed portrait and one plate, contemporary ink inscription "Captn. Charles Irby [&] Captn. Mangles R.N. Feb. 1821" at head of title, trimmed slightly affecting the portrait (also torn and laid down), light soiling, 2I4 torn, one or two other marginal tears, Atlas with 44 etched or lithographed plates on 34 sheets (without the 6 supplementary plates), all but 2 plates and 2 maps hand-coloured, 2 folding, one with aquatint, presentation copy from the author inscribed "The Author in Token of his Respects to Sir Charles Stuart" at head of title, some light soiling and browning with traces of light water-staining but mostly marginal, a few marginal tears repaired including one to foot of title, one or two plates slightly trimmed but without loss, modern crimson straight-grain morocco, spines gilt, [Abbey, Travel 268, Atlas only; Atabey 95 & 96 (second edition); Blackmer 116-117], 4to & large oblong folio, 1820. *** Belzoni (1778-1823) was a circus strong man and engineer who became one of the first and leading archaeologists in Egypt. He supervized many important excavations at Karnak, Abu Simbel and the valley of the Kings and opened the second pyramid at Giza. The Atlas "was the first English work of any importance to use lithography". Blackmer Sir Charles Stuart later 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), diplomat, twice ambassador to France and once to Russia between 1841 and 1844. Charles Irby and James Mangles were the authors of Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, published in 1823, in which they describe assisting Belzoni in his excavation of Abu Simbel, the first independent account of the site.
2 vol. including Atlas, first edition, text lacking half-title, lithographed portrait and one plate, contemporary ink inscription "Captn. Charles Irby [&] Captn. Mangles R.N. Feb. 1821" at head of title, trimmed slightly affecting the portrait (also torn and laid down), light soiling, 2I4 torn, one or two other marginal tears, Atlas with 44 etched or lithographed plates on 34 sheets (without the 6 supplementary plates), all but 2 plates and 2 maps hand-coloured, 2 folding, one with aquatint, presentation copy from the author inscribed "The Author in Token of his Respects to Sir Charles Stuart" at head of title, some light soiling and browning with traces of light water-staining but mostly marginal, a few marginal tears repaired including one to foot of title, one or two plates slightly trimmed but without loss, modern crimson straight-grain morocco, spines gilt, [Abbey, Travel 268, Atlas only; Atabey 95 & 96 (second edition); Blackmer 116-117], 4to & large oblong folio, 1820. *** Belzoni (1778-1823) was a circus strong man and engineer who became one of the first and leading archaeologists in Egypt. He supervized many important excavations at Karnak, Abu Simbel and the valley of the Kings and opened the second pyramid at Giza. The Atlas "was the first English work of any importance to use lithography". Blackmer Sir Charles Stuart later 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), diplomat, twice ambassador to France and once to Russia between 1841 and 1844. Charles Irby and James Mangles were the authors of Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, published in 1823, in which they describe assisting Belzoni in his excavation of Abu Simbel, the first independent account of the site.
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