1889 Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, The Royal Egyptian, as Set Forth by His Own Hand

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, second issue with the ads to the rear dated August 1889. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and twenty-eight monochrome wood engraved plates. Collated, complete. 

Set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egypt, this novel mixes historical action with supernatural events, as Harmachis is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow Cleopatra. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre.

In the publisher's original cloth.