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MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- CAILLIAUD, F. Voyage a Méroé, au Fleuve Blanc, au-delà de Fâzoql dans le midi du Royaume de Sennâr, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822. (Paris), Impr. par autorisation du Roi, a l'Imprimerie Royale, 1823-27. 6 in 5 vols., comprising 4 text vols. w. 15 plain engr. full-p. plates and 1 vol. comprising 2 parts w. separate ti.-pages w. tog. 150 plain lithogr. plates and engr. maps on 149 lvs. under tissue guards. 8º & lge-fol. Fine cont. uniformly red mor. w. gilt and blind tooled sides, spines tooled in gold and raised in compartments w. gilt lettered labels, marbled endpapers. (Binds. slightly chafed in places (traces of tickets removed from lower spine ends), some foxing both to text as to plate volumes, small libr. stamps on ti.-pages, but a beautiful set). estimate EUR 6.000 ¶ Frédéric Cailliaud (1787-1869), French traveller and mineralogist. After visiting Holland, Italy, Sicily, Greece, and Asia Minor, he left Constantinople for Egypt, 1815, where he was employed by Muhammed Ali to find the emerald-mines described by the Arabic historians. In the course of this work he visited Upper Egypt and Nubia as far as Wadi Halfa with Drovetti, and also explored the routes to the Red Sea, discovering the quarries and the ruins of Coptos. After returning to Paris, he revisited Egypt in 1819 and explored the Oases, and in 1821 ascended the Nile as far as Meroë. - Magnificent work in fine bindings with accurate maps (i.a. a double-page map of the course of the Nile) and beautiful plates depicting i.a. the pyramids, temples and other edifices in Egypt. The 12 costume plates in the text volumes without colouring. - Ibrahim-Hilmy, 113-4; Blackmer, 270; Brunet I, 1465; NBG 8, 117-9.