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Title: An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians

Author: Edward William Lane

Release date: May 19, 2023 [eBook #70796]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Ward, Lock and Co. limited, 1890

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Lane’s Modern Egyptians

THE DÓSEH. (Page 416.)
Lane’s Modern Egyptians]               [Frontispiece

AN ACCOUNT OF THE
Manners and Customs of the
Modern Egyptians

Written in Egypt during the
Years 1833-1835
BY EDWARD WILLIAM LANE
Translator of The Thousand and One Nights

With Eighty Illustrations and Sixteen Full-Page Engravings, and Biographical Notice of the Author

LONDON
WARD, LOCK AND CO. LIMITED
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE