Pair of Original Antique Prints of Ancient Egyptian Wall Paintings, 1896

Antique print titled 'Egyptian - Egyptien - Aegyptisch'. Lithograph of ancient costumes of Egypt. This print originates from 'Le Costume Historique (.....

Antique print titled 'Plate II Pupae, Details of Larvae'. Old chromolithograph depicting various larva. This print was part of 'Lloyd's Natural History'. Artists and Engravers: Pu...

Antique print with views of the Nile, Egypt. Below near Damietta. Published by C. de Bruijn, circa 1700. Cornelis de Bruijn (also spelled Cornelius de Bruyn, pronounced (1652 – 17...

Antique print titled 'Plate I Scales, Eggs, Probosces etc.'. Old chromolithograph depicting various scales, eggs and proboscis. This print was part of 'Lloyd's Natural History'. A...

Egypt is governed under a Pacha, who is nominated by the Porte, and who usually resides at Grand Cairo; by twenty-four Beys; who form a divan, of which the Pacha, who has also the ti...

Antique print titled 'Phare de l'Egypte'. A vue d'optique of the lighthouse of Alexandria. Also called Pharos of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous...

Antique print titled 'On the Seashore'. Old print showing birds on the seashore. Made after Archibald Thorburn. Artists and Engravers: Published in T...

This print is from 'The Military Costume of Turkey. Illustrated by A Series of Engravings. From Drawings made on the Spot. Dedicated by Permission to His Excellency the Minister of the Ottoman Porte to his Britannic Majesty.' London, Published by Thomas M'Lean, Haymarket, (1818). Folio. One of 29 fine handcoloured aquatint plates . Very light offsetting from plates. The original accompanying text of this print is as follows: The remote provinces of the Turkish empire pay little more than a nominal subjection to the Porte, whose commands meet with attention, in Egypt, no longer than the chiefs who govern it find their own interest concerned in obeying them. In such countries, therefore, the traveller must venture with the greatest circumspection, when the firman of the Porte is his only safeguard, which is often either doubted or held in contempt by the ignorant chief or his rapacious subalterns, whose enmity to the Christian faith is ever alive, and whose dread of magic keeps the worst suspicions awake. The firman is therefore of little use here, compared to what it is in European Turkey. The annexed subjects represents a military chief attendant on an Aga of Upper Egypt...

Antique costume print titled 'Cavaliers Egyptiens'. Original antique print of Egyptian horsemen. This print originates from 'Moeurs, usages et costumes...

Antique print titled 'Anas Aegyptiaca - L'Oie d'Egypte'. Original antique print of an Egyptian Goose. This print originates from 'La Ménagerie du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle...