The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt, Esq.: Volume 2 : His Britannic Majesty's Late Consul General in Egypt

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This two-volume biography of the traveller and antiquary Henry Salt (1780–1827) was published in 1834. Volume 2 describes Salt's later career in Egypt, as a diplomat and especially as a pioneering archaeologist, as well as his negotiations over the future of his own spectacular collection of Egyptian artefacts.