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Title: The History of Egypt from the earliest times till the conquest by the Arabs A.D. 640. A new edition. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection reflects the changing perceptions of Western historians, travellers, traders, and others surveying the Middle East. Texts and first-person travelogues include illustrated volumes. Other works focus on the earlier history of Persian and Arabic areas of the world. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Sharpe, Samuel; 1870. 2 vol.; 8º. 9061.cc.13.