| Published |
1820 |
| Author |
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista
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| Contributor |
Belzoni, Sarah
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| Title |
Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. By G. Belzoni. |
| Publisher’s imprint |
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street. 1820. |
| Printer’s colophon |
London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars. |
| Format |
4o; 1 vol.: pp. [v]-xix. [1]. 533; plates |
| Sources |
Gallica; IA NYU; NSTC 2B17165 |
| Copy inspected |
Google Harv |
| Notes |
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Includes: Sara Belzoni, Mrs Belzoni’s Trifling Account of the Women of Egypt, Nubia, and Syria (pp. 442-83); Appendix, Containing and Explanation of Some of the Principal Hieroglyphics: Extracted from the Article Egypt, in the Supplement of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: with Additional Notes (pp. 487-524); and Remarks on Mr. Belzoni's Plates (pp. 525-33).
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Editions: Paris 1821(French trans. by G. B. Depping; 2 vols); 1821(2nd), 1822(3rd), Groningen 1823(Dutch trans.; 3 vols); Milan 1825(Italian trans.; 2 vols); Brussels 1835. Supplementary plates published as Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (London: John Murray, 1820) and Six New Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (London: John Murray, 1822).
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Reviews: Literary Gaz., no. 202 (Sat., Dec. 2, 1820): 769-71; Galignani's Literary Gaz. (Sun., Dec. 31, 1820): 1-5 [repr. Literary Gaz.]; Gentleman's Mag. 91 (Jan. 1821): 41-44; Athenaeum 8.2 (Mar. 1, 1821): 405-8 [repr. Literary Gaz.]; British Rev. 17.33 (Mar. 1821): 230-62; Asiatic Journal 11.64 (Apr. 1821): 357-75; Eclectic Rev. 15, n.s. (June 1821): 489-503; Quarterly Rev. 24.47 (Oct. 1821): 139-69; Neue allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden 8 (1821): 403-14.
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| Genre |
Narrative |
| BTW record no. |
BTW1018 |
| Region |
Egypt
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