FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp vi 333. 2 folding maps 16 plates. This is the exceedingly SCARCE hand-coloured issue with the frontispiece and seven other plates, one of which is folded in superb colour. Paper boards are a little bubbled. Sporadic spotting. Very good indeed with the colour plates in excellent state with only minor spotting at their edges - they comprise a native of Dóngola, a Nubian river-boat the pyramids at El Bellal (2 plates), the Castle of Koke a saint's tomb Djebel el Berkel and the Temple at Soleb. Modern leather-backed marbled paper boards; black leather labels on spine and lettered in gilt. Endpapers renewed. Waddington's work describes a journey from Wady Halfa to Merawe and back. The plates done on stone by Agostino Aglio are based on Waddington's original drawings, the one exception being the frontispiece which is by M. Linant, a French artist then living in Cairo who also improved" two or three other drawings. Waddington was also a church historian, his most important work in that area being A History of the Church from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation (1835). Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. A Native of Dongola. 2. Nubian Ferry-Boat. 3. Djebel el Berkel. 4. Pyramids at El Bellal. (folding plate) 5. Great Pyramid at El Bellal. 6. A Saint's Tomb. 7. Castle of Koke. 8. Temple of Soleb.