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001 $ 24/989
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20241105123933.0
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
245 1 0 $a Description of the Egyptian tomb, discovered by G. Belzoni.
260 # # $a London $b John Murray $c 1821
300 # # $a 15, [1] p., [1] fold. litho. map: $b wd-engr. illus.; $c 203 mm.
500 # # $a No author is indicated but possibly by Belzoni himself. The printer statement is on the verso of the title-page (and at the end of the pamphlet): 'London: / Printed by William Clowes, / Northumberland-court.'

The pamphlet includes a description of 'The Model' of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Seti (or Sethi) I that was installed in the exhibition of Belzoni's findings at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly in May 1821. The pamphlet was apparently intended to be sold as a guide to the exhibition.
510 0 # $a See Sir John Soane's Museum Library (ref. no. 3947).
561 # # $a Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
561 # # $a Bound (8) in vol. II of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.
563 # # $a In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / II'.
600 1 4 $a Belzoni, Giovanni Battista
653 # # $a Tombs Egypt - Egypt Antiquities - Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) Antiquities
700 1 # $a Rodwell $e donor
700 1 # $a Westmacott, Richard $e previous owner
700 1 # $a Murray, John $e publisher
700 1 # $a Clowes, William $e printer
700 1 # $a Hullmandel, Charles Joseph $e lithographic printer