Vingt et un jours à la Mer Morte. À Madame *** [Eugénie Breidenbach].

£350 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Inscribed by the author on imprint page “[Eugénie Breidenbach] ma meilleure amie. Edouard.” The author was a French banker, a friend of Ferdinand de Lesseps and was one of the latter’s personal invitees to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Jean-Marie Carré, Voyageurs et écrivains français en Égypte , Cairo, 1932, pp. 353.

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