first edition

This is the first and only German edition of 'Ober-Ägypten'. Previously only 'Unter-Ägypten' had been published. This edition covering Upper Egypt was published a year before the English edition of the same title in 1892 The next German edition on Egypt (1897) combined both Upper and Lower Egypt in one volume.

This is a fine example of a rare Baedeker edition. Issued c.1891.

First edition; pp xl, 400, 11 maps, 26 plans and floor plans, some coloured, inner hinge slightly cracked,previous owner's stamp inside, publisher's red cloth gilt, spine faded; otherwise a very good copy.

Hinrichsen D488.