NILE NOTES OF A HOWADJI - Curtis, 1st 1856 - EGYPT TRAVEL ADVENTURES SITES NILE 1st EDITION / SIGNED / RARE Garden City (1970)

Garden City (1970)

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NILE NOTES OF A HOWADJI - Curtis, 1st 1856 - EGYPT TRAVEL ADVENTURES SITES NILE 1st EDITION / SIGNED / RARE Garden City (1970)NILE NOTES OF A HOWADJI Book Details + Condition: Harper & Brothers (New York). First American Edition, 1856. By George William Curtis. 360 pp, followed by 10 pp of publisher ads. Embossed boards with gilt on spine. Measures 7 3 4" x 5 1 2". In the early nineteenth century a trip to Egypt and up the Nile aboard a native dhahabyeh (large sailing craft) was reserved for only the most adventurous traveler, or howadji, a Turkish word originally meaning