My winter on the Nile

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. Frontispiece wood engraving (“The wooden man 6,000 years old), title vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Red pictorial cloth in black and gold, rebacked with the original spine laid down; text is toned but clean. Bookplate of the Ladies’ Christian Union. First edition, published simultaneously in Hartford by the American Publishing Company, of Warner’s account of his travels down the Nile and around Egypt. This work includes detailed stories about his exploration of mosques, visits to the Pharaoh tombs, and interactions with local Egyptians and their culture. Through interpreters, Warner spoke with everyone he could to soak up as much of the Egyptian life as possible while he traveled around what was, at the time, considered an unknown part of the world to many Americans. Warner (1829-1900) was an American novelist, a friend of Mark Twain with whom he co-authored The gilded age.