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Brindley Hone (Diary)
Diary of a Tour in Egypt Palestine and Syria in the Years 1860 and 1861
1860-1861
Diary page
Sotheby's - London
Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History, 30 April 2015, Lot: 165
LL/58827
Manuscript journal with detailed daily entries from 26 November 1860 to 1 May 1861, mostly concentrating on antiquities and wildlife, with 13 stereoscopic photographs and 19 engraved views laid down, concluding with a transcription of "Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Tomb" by Horace Smith, and with three documents and firmans relating to travel inserted, the diary being a later fair copy in 253 numbered pages, plus blanks, 4to, Ballybrack, Dublin, after 1864 (paper watermarked "A. Pirie & Sons 1864")
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