Alexander Cury — Cairo: How to See It

London, Luzac & Co. 1932. Paperback. The thirteenth edition of this scarce travel guide to the city of Cairo, with illustrations and maps. Thirteenth edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece, ninety in-text diagrams and photographs, with a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. A detailed travel guide to the city of Cairo with chapters on the history, the Great Pyramids, the Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian Library, the zoological garden, the Nile, money, scarabs and antiques, social life, the Giza Sphinx, churches, trams, shopping, tariffs, and postal information. Written by Alexander Cury, a British travel writer. In the original pictorial paper wraps. Externally, worn with rubbing and chipping to the extremities. The odd crease and the odd small closed tear. Sunning to the spine with the odd small mark. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. A 4" closed tear to the folding map at the rear. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .