A Mamelouk or Mamluk of Cairo in Egypt, 1818. Mamluk slave soldier on horseback in turban with scimitar in front of a pyramid (at the Battle of the Pyramids, 1798). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Venning’s A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.

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