MONTBARD, G. "The Land of the Sphinx" [Dodd, Mead & Company, 1894]

"The Land of the Sphinx" by G. Montbard [Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1894]. First American Edition. xxiii + 341pp. Illustrated with 186 engravings by the author. Original pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Gilt remains bright. Binding tight and square, with only the faintest rubbing to extremities. Interior clean and unmarked. A sharp and striking copy of Montbard’s richly detailed account of Egypt, accompanied by 19th-century visual reportage in exceptional quantity. Near Fine.