Assouan as a Health Resort.

Name: Assouan as a Health Resort.
Author: Kingsford, W. E.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. 52; 5 illusts., one double-page plan; previous owner’s inscription and notes to prelims., embrowning to endpapers, good in original cloth, gilt, rather soiled.

Dealer Notes

“The chief object of this publication is to draw the attention of the Medical Faculty to the value of Assouan as a winter health resort, and to the provision of accommodation suitable for invalids at the Hotel which is now in course of erection” (Prefatory Note). The Cataract Hotel opened in 1899, funded by Thomas Cook, and exists today as the Sofitel Legend Old Cataract Aswan Hotel.

Author Kingsford, W. E.

Date 1899

Binding Original cloth, gilt

Publisher London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.

Condition See description

Pages 52

Price: £75.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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