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...As Tristram describes in the preface, the object of this book is to illustrate every allusion to natural history found in Christian scripture. It is the product of his travels in the Holy Land, accompanied by botanical and zoological...
...Antoine Clot's work is a survey of modern Egypt and Egyptian life and manners with a great deal of documentation. Essentially, it is a work of propaganda and an apologia for Mehmet Ali of Egypt, whom Clot greatly admired. Some...
...A rare first and only edition of this study of Sultan Mahmud II's reforms. L.-P.-B. d’ Aubignosc (1774–1847) was the director of the Imperial Police at Hamburg and in 1798 took part in the expedition to Egypt. In April 1830 he was sent...
...De Bosset, a Swiss serving in the British Army, was sent to Parga in 1816 previous to the cession of the area to Ali Pasha. The preface includes an account of his dispute with Sir Thomas Maitland, the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian...