The traveller and antiquary Henry Salt (1780-1827) hoped to become a portrait painter, but recognised his own limitations, and instead entered the employment of

This two-volume biography of the antiquary Henry Salt (1780-1827), published in 1834, describes his work in Abyssinia and Egypt.

Published in 1834, this is volume 2 of 2 of the biography and correspondence of Henry Salt, British Consul to Egypt, who reported on ancient caves beneath the g