Captain Head describes his purpose in publishing this work as twofold: ‘to promote a rapid communication with India by way of Egypt, through the agency of steam navigation, and, as a natural consequence of this measure, to secure our Indian frontier against the perils of northern invasion’.” (Blackmer) The work focuses on Egypt. This is one of the better views in the book of the Ruins at Luxor. Blackmer sale 673; Blackmer 799; Gay 1846.