Back to ShowcaseCarte Topographique de L'Egypte
Bound by Stuart Brockman
Carte Topographique de L'Egypte, Pierre Jacotin, Paris 1826
Box made to house this collection of maps of the Nile.
Decorative quarter leather wooden box (using green Hewit's Chieftain Goat) made from oak veneered wood with recessed leather panels to front and rear; edges of lid covered with full leather panels; box lined with inert fabric; spine tooled and lettered in gold leaf; leather panels and lid walls hand tooled in 23.5 ct gold leaf.
