Rambles in Cairo, Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, RARE Binding, 1931, 2nd Ed., Very Good

Devonshire, Mrs. R. L. (pseudonym of Henriette Devonshire). Rambles in Cairo (Cairo: E. & R. Schindler, 1931).

English, RARE binding, Second Edition, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 9 1/2" x 6 1/2," 104 pp. + 63 plates + one folding map (tipped in back).

ISBN: N/A

RARE binding. Second Edition. Very Good beige and gray paper-covered boards (beige from fading), black lettering on front, no lettering to spine. Covers have moderate age toning (much of the covers have turned to a beige color), light rubbing, slight chipping and splitting along outer joints and head and tail of spine, slight bumping to edges and tips, and a few small stains, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages have light age toning and a former owner's inscription in green ink on front free endpaper (datelined 1943 in Cairo), else pristine and intact. 63 black-and-white plates in back, after which is a tipped-in folding color map or plan of Cairo. A travelogue featuring Cairo, Egypt by "Mrs. R. L. Devonshire," the pseudonym of Henriette Devonshire (1864-1949). Henriette was a French translator and travel writer. She married Robert Llewellyn Devonshire, and they settled in Cairo in 1913. In her Preface to the Second Edition, Henriette notes the changes made in this edition such as various additions to text and omitting monuments that have since been destroyed following the publication of the First Edition. This travelogue takes readers on a tour of Cairo with emphasis on historical architecture and monuments of the city. In the back is a city plan or map of Cairo showing its "medieval" monuments.