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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:09:33 -0700
From: Brian Bach <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Pre-Suez Canal Maps of Egypt. <fwd>
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I would add that 'Description de l'Egypte' has been superbly reprinted by Taschen publishers in a reduced size trilingual  paperback. The whole work is reproduced, and it is a stunning display, over 1000 pages. The book is extremely affordable.

Baedeker's 'Egypt'  and Murray's 'Handbook for Egypt' will also be helpful. They are unrivaled as far as period guidebooks (c. 1840s - 1920s) with serious and scholarly examinations of the region.

Brian

Brian P. Bach
Maps Specialist
Documents/Maps
Central Washington University Library
400 E. 8th Ave.
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
USA
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:45:51 -0600
From: Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Pre-Suez Canel Maps of Egypt.
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 The Napoleon expedition's massive, multi-volume report called "Description de l'Egypte" is in OCLC (bib #731835). It includes an atlas, and several volumes of detailed sketches of antiquities, natural history, and modern features.  The University of Utah's Middle East Library has a copy, which can only be used in-house, but perhaps the patron can find a library nearby that has a copy.

--Ken Rockwell
  Univ. of Utah
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