A collection of late 19th and early 20th century Egyptian Menus.
[Egypt: various dates, 1896-1903]. Various sizes. Twenty-nine printed menus with specific offerings printed or in manuscript. On various papers, some with chromolithograph illustrations; some with embossed, debossed or die-cut elements; some with edges beveled and gilt. Texts in Arabic, French, German, and English. An unusual group of Egyptian menus from a moment when the British, Germans, and Austro-Hungarians were jockeying for Power in the region, and the last of the.....