Travels through Egypt and Syria, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785
Subtitle: containing the present natural and political state of those countries; their productions, arts, manufactures, and commerce; with observations on the manners, customs, and government of the Turks and Arabs
By: by M.C.-F. Volney. Translated from the French. In two volumes
Contributors: Scoles, John, 1772?-1853, engraver; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Boston Public Library (John Adams Library)
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Tiebout, for E. Duycknick ...
Published: 1798
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Description and travel
Work titles: Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, pendant les années 1783, 1784, et 1785
Notes: John Adams Library incomplete: wanting v. 1; cataloging information taken from OCLC and ESTC.

Some copies have a frontispiece portrait of Volney.

With a half-title to v. 2.

"Subscribers names."--p. [299-300], v. 2.

Translation of: Voyage in Syrie et en Égypte.

Signatures: v. 1, pi1 Ap4s(A2 + chip2s) B-Up4 sWp4 sX-2Hp4 s(2H4 blank); v. 2, pi1 A-2Op4 s[2P]p2s.

Table of contents at end.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

ESTC, W223

Evans,  34949

Bristol, B10664

Shipton & Mooney, 48750

Cox, E.G. Travel, I, p. 235

John Adams Library copy front cover detached from binding.

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.