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SHEFIK (AHMED)
Notes on a Visit to Sinai Monastery and a Motor Car Tour in Sinai Peninsula, in January 1926, first edition in English, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To Kaimakam L.H.C. Hatton Bey, [with mauve stamp] Lewa Director General, Frontier Administration" on the title, Cairo, Government Press, 1926; with 3 other items, including articles relating to the Nubian and Western Deserts extracted from Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, and a typescript article (with pencil annotations) entitled "Kufu's Treasure" (4)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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SHEFIK (AHMED)

Notes on a Visit to Sinai Monastery and a Motor Car Tour in Sinai Peninsula, in January 1926, first edition in English, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To Kaimakam L.H.C. Hatton Bey, [with mauve stamp] Lewa Director General, Frontier Administration" on the title, photographic portrait frontispiece of Fouad I, King of Egypt, 123 photographic illustrations on 85 plates, very short tear in fore-margin of a few plates, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, light soiling, 4to, Cairo, Government Press, 1926; with 3 other items, including articles relating to the Nubian and Western Deserts extracted from Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, and a typescript article (with pencil annotations) entitled "Kufu's Treasure" (4)

Footnotes

A copy of this scarce account - believed to have been printed in an edition of 210 copies - presented to Kaimakam Hatton Bey, 2nd in Command, F.A. Camel Corps. The expedition intended "to examine the new motor road between Suez and Tor and between the two latter localities and Mount-Sinai Monastery."

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