HOREAU (Hector). Panorama of Egypt and Nubia with a portrait of Mehemet-Ali. Paris : the author, the main booksellers of France and abroad, 1841. - Large folio, 593 x 426 : (39 ff.), 37 plates. Dark blue half-chagrin, spine decorated, spotted edges (period binding). Unique edition of this very beautiful work proposing a series of the most beautiful views of the Nile valley from Alexandria to Nubia at the level of the second cataract. It includes thirty-seven plates engraved with aquatint and printed in bistre by Himely after the drawings of Hector Horeau (1801-1872), including a portrait of Mehemet-Ali and a folding panorama of Cairo formed of three plates. Each plate is accompanied by an explanatory text with beautiful woodcut vignettes. The sheet dedicated to Dakké, Korti, Maharraka includes on the back a large vignette on chine glued. The work was published in twelve issues from May 29, 1841, with the plates in bistre, as it is the case here, or in colors. The last leaf of text ("Retrospective Frontispiece"), and the list of subscribers at the end, bear the date of 1846. Outer hinges cracked, first and last box partly torn off and missing, corners dulled, inner hinge of the first cover split along the whole length .