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A journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and back again / translated from a manuscript, written by the prefetto of Egypt, in company with some missionaries de propaganda fide at Grand Cairo ; to which are added remarks on the origin of hieroglyphics, and the mythology of the ancient heathens. Dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries, London by the Right Reverend Robert, Lord Bishop of Clogher.

Accession number
PML 3844
Creator
Clayton, Robert, 1695-1758.
Published
London : Printed for W. Bowyer ; and sold by J. Ward, M. Cooper and R. Baldwin, and J. Robinson, 1753.
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
"The original Journal from grand Cairo to Mount Sinai ... which was written by the Prefetto of the Franciscans in Egypt, who set out from the Convent de propaganda fide at Grand Cairo, A.D. 1722 ... ": p. 3.
Description
168 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; (8vo)
Provenance
From the Toovey collection.
Binding
Calf.
Classification
Book
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Department
Printed Books