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Des Herrn
Grangers Beschreibung seiner in dem Jahre 1730 durch Egypten gethanen Reise, vorin das merkvurdigste in diesem Lande, insonderheit was die Naturgeschichte betrifft, beschrieben ist
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Relation du voyage fait en Egypte, par le sieur
Granger, en l'année 1730. Où l'on voit ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable, particulièrement sur l'histoire naturelle
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A Journey through Egypt made in the year 1730, in which there are to be found the most remarkable particulars on
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in 1731, when Pignon was assigned French Consul in Cairo. During his stay in Egypt, Granger travelled up the Nile to
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Granger's account and notes was published in French in 1745, in German 1751 and in
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In the 1720s he worked as a physician in a
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