McCoan, J. C. Egypt As It Is, with a Map, taken from the most recent survey; Cover title: History of Egypt. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1882). New Edition. [10770]
Brown publisher's cloth decorated in black & gilt, binding clean, 8 3/4 x 6 inches, frontispiece "View of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx ," xv, 417 clean pages. Near fine. Hardcover.
Title page references a map; there is no map in this new edition, the only illustration is the frontispiece.
"The following pages are the outcome of what may claim to be an intimate acquaintance with Egypt, acquired during a long residence in the Levant and several lengthened visits to the country, made especially within the last three years to collect statistical and other information on the spot...I know of no [other] systematic attempt to sketch its present material and administrative condition."
James Carlisle McCoan (1829-1904), Irish journalist and politician. He was a war correspondent of the Daily News during the Crimean War, and the first English newspaper in Turkey, the Levant Herald, was founded by him in 1864. From 1880 to 1885 he was a member of Parliament from County Wicklow.
