Egypt

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Sphynx and Pyramids of Khufu, Kharfre, Menkuare and one of the pyramids of the Queens.
Double Panorama of the City: Contemporary view before the considerable expansion and development of the 19th century.
Island of Er-Rhodah: Southern part of the Island with Masr El-Ateekah.
Tel El Kebir: Bird’s Eye with key of General Wolseley’s victory over the Arabi Pasha’s Egyptian forces.
Panorama of the City: Four views in and around the city with descriptive text in French.
Sphinx (Abu al Haul): With the Pyramids of Cheops (Khufu) and Chephren (Khafre): Drawn from life during Hildebrandt’s ’round-the-world’ voyage.
Edfu (Apollinopolis Magna): View from within the temple portico. After Vivant Denon, engraved by John Pass.
Colossi of Memnon and a distant view of Medinah Habou.
Bab al-Kalabsha: Portico of the Temple of Kalabshi, the lesser sun god Mandulis. Built in 30 BC but never completed, the temple was moved to Lake Nasser after the building of the Aswan dam.
Nile: First and Second Cataracts. 8 views between the two cataracts of the Nile.
Mosque of Tooloon.
Mourad Palace: Mamluks exercising in the Square. Murad Bey effectively ruled Egypt jointly with Ibrahim Bey in the late 18th century.
An early-19th century depiction of the Ancient Egyptian Zodiac from the ceiling of the Temple of Dendera. Characterized as “the only complete map that we have of an ancient sky”.
Kasr Esh-Shema Gateway: Roman fortress of Babylon or Kasr-esh Shema, ‘Castle of the Beacon’.
Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Bird’s eye view of the entrance to the Canal from the Sea with the new harbour, docks and town of Suez.
Approach of the Simoon: The Great Sphynx with the infamous, hot cyclonic wind twisting up before the darkening sun. The most dramatic scene in the series. RARE subscribers’ edition.
Great pyramid Cheops, second pyramid Cephren and the Sphynx.
Cairo: Panorama from the environs.
Luxor (Thebes): Southwest ruins on the Nile.
Ras Mohammed: Double panorama of the inlet on the Red Sea. From the west and from Cherm El Bir.
Alexandria Harbour: Panoramic view showing the principal collonaded avenue towards Pharos Island and the old port on the left, the Great Harbour and the Temple of Neptune and Timonium of Alexander on the right.
Dendera: Temple of Isis on the Nile.
A depiction of an Ancient Egyptian planisphere from the ceiling of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. Characterised as “the only complete map that we have of an ancient sky”.
Portraits: Mamaluke cavalryman with infantry soldier and Bedouin Arab soldier.
Four views of pyramids and the Sphinx. With a description in French of design and history.
Entrance to the Palace of Luxor: Imperial edition of the Description de l’Egypte which recorded the highly influential Napoleonic expedition.
Alexandria from Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque.
Luxor: View of the north east ruins of the temple and Pylon of Ramses II.
Temple of Luxor: View from the south. Imperial edition of the Description de L’Egypte which recorded the highly influential Napoleonic expedition.
Panorama of the ancient Acropolis: Showing ‘Pompey’s Pillar’, a memorial to Diocletian misnamed during the Crusades.
Boulak: View of the port from the River Nile.
Alexandria: Panorama of the City and Port with key in Dutch and French After the 1665 view by Arnoldus Montanus.
Cairo: Panoramic view from the pyramids of Giza to the citadel of Cairo with key. The Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 ended with a British victory that expanded the Empire’s control over Egypt.
Panoramic view of the temple complex and sacred lake from the Tomb of Horemheb.
Grand entrance to Luxor: After Vivant Denon, engraved by John Pass.
Alexandria: Panorama of the city with vignettes of Cleopatra’s Palace, Alexander’s obelisque and the tower interior with text in French.
Nile River from Cairo to Khartoum: Showing the route from Cairo of the expedition led by Gen. Wolseley to relieve Gen. Gordon at Khartoum.
Sphynx, Obelisk, and Pyramids.
Medinet Abou (Habu): Mortuary temple of Ramesses III. Interior of the ruins.