Fine Books and Manuscripts

Aegyptus. [London, ca 1625 or later].Woodcut map of Egypt printed for Purchas, His Pilgrimes, image 148 x 186 mm (188 x 212 mm sheet). Small decorative cartouche, grid rule. (Map in upper portion of sheet, which has been cut in half, lacking lower portion and part of text.) The map depicts the course of the Nile, and the coast along the Mediterranean Sea.