POITOU (Eugène) Lot n° 220

A Winter in Egypt Tours, Mame, 1860 in8 (16 x 25 cm) A beautiful period binding in red half leather and then percaline. Dishes in percaline. Spine with nerves decorated with the title and boxes. A good quality binding, decorative. Received for a price 468 pages, complete 32 off-text engravings. Illustrations Of all beauty! A nice, clean and solid binding with a good appearance. A few smears of use at the level of the caps, bits and nerves, epidermis / snag on the upper bit cap (see photo). Fresh inside, clean white paper with rare freckles, rare for the time. A nice copy. in good condition. A beautiful period binding All three slices are golden! Work illustrated with 32 off-text engravings (views of Egypt with characters, women from Cairo, Syout, the serapeum, the Island of Malta, the Pasha's palsi in Alexandria, the lively streets of Cairo, the massacre of the Mameluks, mosques, the Nile, a sakieh, a chadouf, Louqsor, Karnac, etc.).