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[Egypt and the Middle East]. Anonymous manuscript... - Lot 1 - Brissonneau
[Egypt and the Middle East]. Anonymous manuscript of 94 pages and 34 pages in detached sheets. From 22/01/1929 to 13/04/1929. Small in-8 (20,5x16 cm), half vellum and string. Travel diary (kept almost every day) in the company of the painter Simon Bussy (1870-1954), his wife Dorothy (friend and translator of André Gide's works into English), and his daughter Janie. The author was invited by Bussy to accompany him on a part of his trip to Egypt, commissioned by Gabriel Hanoteaux, to illustrate his book "History of the Egyptian Nation" published in 1932. Leaving Marseille aboard the Champollion liner, to Alexandria, Cairo, Aswan, then down the Nile in a felucca to Alfa, back to Aswan, visit of monuments and temples, back to Cairo for Palestine, Jerusalem, Mount of Olives, Omar's Mosque, Jericho, Bethlehem, Nablus, Beirut, etc., back to France to Roquebrune.
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