WHITE, Arthur Silva.
From sphinx to oracle. Through the Libyan Desert to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon ...
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1899.
8vo, pp. xv, [1], 277, [3]; with 20 plates, 2 folding coloured maps, and illustrations in the text, title printed in red and black; some foxing to half-title, closed marginal tear to p. xv; very good in original pictorial blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered in black with vignette, pale yellow endpapers; a little wear to extremities, a few marks to covers; two ownerships inscriptions to front free endpaper.
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From sphinx to oracle. Through the Libyan Desert to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon ...
First edition. ‘The town of Siwa and its adjacent necropolis were bathed in the evening light, hedged round by a wall of mere mud and an impenetrable armour of fanaticism. It seemed difficult to realize it all: the flimsy material structure and the moral impregnability of this ancient citadel. Few Europeans had been allowed within its gates; none had penetrated into its secret recesses. Its doors were now opened to me, and some of its secrets might be revealed’ (p. 170).
