Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (ed)Biblio.com
Kaufmann; Ranke; Kahle et alBiblio.com
Ägypten und Sudan Egypt and Sudan. Sixth Edition
191450299Leipzig und Wien: Bibligraphisches Institut 1914. Sixth edition. Softcover. Very good condition. Duodecimo. xiv 458 40pp. 23 plates incl. maps. Original brown pebbled soft cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on cover and spine blind-stamped decorative ruling on covers and spine with blind-stamped lettering on back cover. Color maps on inside covers and front and back endpapers. Contains thirteen color maps some of them folding thirty-six plans and numerous illustrations including photographs and drawings of ancient and modern sites in Egypt and the Sudan. Guide to major points of interest and their historical relevance with detailed descriptions of landscape and cities. With extensive introductory essays e.g. one on the Arabic language. Provides new maps of the Delta of the Nile the surrounding areas of Cairo plans of Heliopolis and old Cairo and a color sketch of the temple of Amon. With list of illustrations and maps and abbreviations at front index of places and subjects at rear. The guide concludes with forty pages of advertisements. Text in German. Very light wear and rubbing of binding. Four folding map reinforced with yellowed transparent tape. Bibligraphisches Institut unknown
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