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    Modern Slave Boat on the Nile 

    (Rice University, 1884)
    Sailboat with people clustered on the deck floating down the Nile; the Pyramids are visible in the background....
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    Egypt through the stereoscope : a journey through the land of the Pharaohs [Electronic Version] 

    Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935 (Rice University, 1908)
    mental characteristics and the same physical peculiarities as we find in those subjects of the Pharaohs who built the pyramids. They have changed their language once...
    an isolated date or two with here and there a royal name. But to the existence of the kings of the Old Kingdom, their pyramids still bear vivid witness; and often, too...
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    Hand-book for travellers in Egypt; including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, &c. Being a new edition, corrected and condensed, of "Modern Egypt and Thebes" [Electronic Version] 

    Wilkinson, John Gardner, Sir, 1797-1875 (Rice University, 1847)
    ;INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COURSE OF THE NILE TO THE SECOND CATARACT, ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO, THE PYRAMIDS, AND THEBES, THE OVERLAND TRANSIT TO INDIA, THE PENINSULA OF MOUNT SINAI, THE OASES, &c.SIR GARDNER...
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    Egypt: descriptive, historical, and picturesque [Electronic Version] 

    Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 (Rice University, 1887)
    , found a refuge from His pursuers?But the Holy Scriptures, which first familiarise us with the land of the Nile valley, say nothing of its Pyramids...
    has not, while yet a child, heard of those monuments, on which the Greeks bestowed the proud name of “Wonders of the World”?The name “Pyramid” is given to a simple mathematical solid form...
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    A handbook for travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt [Electronic Version] 

    John Murray (Firm) (Rice University, 1888)
    Illustration of title-pageA HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN LOWER AND UPPER EGYPT;INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COURSE OF THE NILE THROUGH EGYPT AND NUBIA ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO, THE PYRAMIDS, THEBES...
    . The Pyramids and Templ of Gheezeh.*Petrie, F. Egyptian Revolution.Paton. Art of the Saraoens...
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    Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers [Electronic Version] 

    Baedeker, Karl (Rice University, 1914)
    Franz-PashaMaps. Map of the DeltaMap of the Environs of AlexandriaMap of the Mareotis DistrictMap of the Immediate Environs of CairoMap of the Road to the PyramidsSurvey Map of the Environs...
    Map of the Southern SûdânGeneral Map of EgyptPlans. Section of the Step Pyramid...
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    The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt [Electronic Version] 

    Budge, E. A. Wallis Sir, 1857-1934. (Ernest Alfred Wallis) (Rice University, 1902)
    of KHET-NETER and ḤEN NEKHT, kings of the IIIrd Dynasty. The first of these names is the Horus name of the well-known king Tcheser, who built a pyramid at Saḳḳâra, and is famous as the king who...
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    A ride in Egypt, from Sioot to Luxor in 1879: with notes on the present state and ancient history of the Nile Valley, and some account of the various ways of making the voyage out and home. [Electronic Version] 

    Loftie, W. J. 1839-1911. (William John) (Rice University, 1886)
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    Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert [Electronic Version] 

    Thomas Cook Ltd. [Corporate author] (Rice University, 1897)
    .TCDuring the season T. C & S (E), L, arrange excursions by steamer from up the river to Bedrachin, for ancient , Sakkara, the Pyramid of Oonas, , etc., and down...
    in , with special arrangements for carriage trip to the Pyramids of . Having shown how to reach Egypt, it will be useful for the traveller to have placed before him an itinerary of the Nile...
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    Egypt, handbook for travellers.Pt. 1. Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the peninsula of Sinai [Electronic Version] 

    Baedeker, Karl (Rice University, 1885)
    . — FROM to Naples and Marseilles every Tuesday at 9 a.m. On Friday about noon the vessel sights the Calabrian coast with the Capo Spartivento, and to the W. the pyramidal...
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