Travel. A Victorian gentleman's manuscript diary, dated Octo...

Hammer

£50

Travel. A Victorian gentleman's manuscript diary, dated October 25th - December 10th, 1857, [22]ff only, recto lacking a few leaves, however, the first extant leaf seems to be the start of the narrative, where the author disembarks at Alexandria with his companions, having sailed via Malta, and then travels south to Cairo and sees the Pyramids of Giza, before leaving Egypt for Italy and the usual Grand Tour sites, customary observations of travel and some local life, the account ending abruptly, some former water staining in places, though not affecting the legibility of the text, contemporary Letts, Son & Co notebook of black quarter-roan over green cloth, their ticket to pastedown, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo