The Monuments of Egypt, or, Egypt a Witness for the Bible with Notes of a Voyage Up the Nile

NY: Geo. A. Putnam, 1850. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A nicely preserved copy of the second edition, after the first of 1849. 8vo, green cloth blind -stamped and decorated with centered gilt pictorial front, 256, 162, 26 (publisher's list), 12 plates incl colored lithograph frontispiece and 10 others, plus numerous wood-engraved text illustrations.Some inconsequential spotting front and rear. Contemporary inscription in period script ffe. A collectible copy.