The Nile Boat. First American edition

Bartlett, William Henry (1809-54). The Nile boat; or, glimpses of the land of Egypt. vi, [2], 218, [2, adverts.]pp. 34 engraved plates, including frontispiece; wood-engraved text illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 254 x 171 mm. Original publisher's cloth binding of dark blue morocco-grain cloth, top edges gilt, the covers featuring an Egyptian felucca within an elaborately decorated Egyptian architectural frame. Very fine apart from some very slight wear at the spine.

First American Edition, first published in London in 1849. The binding for the American edition differs from that used for the British editions.