Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities: The Property of Henry Abbott, M. D., Now Exhibiting at the Stuyvesant Institute, No; 659 Broadway, New York Subjoined is an Introduction by a gentleman of this city, who has visited Egypt, and who is himself an author of great merit. He has ren dered it useless for me to say more than that I am indebted to him and many other American travellers for the praise they have kindly bestowed upon my exertions, and without whose advice I should never have ventured to Offer this Collection Of Egyptian Antiquities to the patronage of the American public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.