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2004137103Oxford: Aris and Phillips an imprint of Oxbow Books 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oxford Aris and Phillips an imprint of Oxbow Books 2004. Small quarto xvi 261 pages with 2 pages of maps and several illustrations plus 8 pages of colour plates from watercolours by Flinders Petrie. Papered boards; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Aris and Phillips, an imprint of Oxbow Books hardcover
1941136992New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1941. Large quarto 20 pages plus 10 pages of plates. Later laminated boards reproducing the original wrappers; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. One of only 500 copies printed by the Plantin Press. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Papers No. 10. The Metropolitan Museum of Art paperback
1906512767Egypt Exploration Fund / Kegan Paul Trench Trubner et al. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Editio Princeps of the El Hibeh Papyri documents found in mummies and cartonnage comprised of an unusually high percentage of literary texts sparking the assumption that the Papyri were derived from a single library. Original Greek text edited with English Translations and Notes. Complete in two volumes. Vol. 1: xiv 410 10 color facsimile plates; Vol. 2: xiv 187pp. 4 plates. Small 4to sewn binding in tan paper over boards and backed in blue cloth with black stamped lettering deckled edges. Ex-library with some modest wear to the covers text of both volumes exceedingly clean and sharp with little evidence of use. Egypt Exploration Fund / Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner et al. hardcover
1956136881Oxford: 'Printed for the Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey' 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford 'Printed for the Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey' 1956. Large quarto xvi 44 pages with an illustration plus 25 pages of plates of hieroglyphics. Cloth a little scuffed along the top edges of the boards with the top corners a little bumped; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a very good copy. 'To the memory of Paul Cecil Smither some of whose unfinished work has been incorporated in this book' dedication. 'Printed for the Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey' hardcover
1976137211London: Egypt Exploration Society 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London Egypt Exploration Society 1976. Large quarto xvi 192 pages with 4 figures plus 39 pages of plates many from photographs. Cloth a little flecked; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little unevenly tanned. Texts from Excavations Second Memoir. Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
2003137218Oxford: Archaeopress 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford Archaeopress 2003. Quarto vi 253 pages with numerous tables and illustrations including maps and plans. Later papered boards reproducing the original cover design; bottom corners very slightly bumped; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. British Archaeological Reports BAR International Series 1099. Archaeopress hardcover
1999145687London: Thames & Hudson 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London Thames & Hudson 1999 first edition in English/ 1982. Large quarto vi 728 pages with '740 illustrations 606 in duotone mainly from photographs by Georges and Valentine de Miré and 134 line drawings'. Quarter cloth and pictorial papered boards; a fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper slightly creased in the fine pictorial slipcase. Translated from the French 'Les Temples de Karnak' by André Vanden Broeck. Thames & Hudson hardcover
1977136946Oxford: Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Dust Jacket Included. Oxford Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1977. Large quarto xii 102 pages plus 13 plates 6 folding 5 from photographs. Cloth; top edge very slightly marked; a near-fine copy with the dustwrapper a little tanned creased and torn. Loosely inserted are two newspaper obituaries of the author. A pictorial bookplate is mounted on the front pastedown. Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum hardcover
1926137489London: The Religious Tract Society 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Religious Tract Society 1926. Octavo xxiv 308 pages with 22 illustrations plus 17 plates. Cloth slightly rubbed and a little sunned and marked on the spine; endpapers tanned with a small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. The Religious Tract Society hardcover
2001137529London: Egypt Exploration Society 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London Egypt Exploration Society 2001. Quarto xvi 70 pages with 5 illustrations and 81 plates 4 folding; many from photographs by Peter-Jan Bomhof. Papered boards; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the slightly scuffed dustwrapper. Sixty-Sixth Excavation Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society. Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
1970137538Oxford: Griffith Institute Ashmoleum Museum 1970. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Oxford Griffith Institute Ashmoleum Museum 1970/ 1960 second edition revised and augmented/ 1927 and 1989/ 1964 second edition revised and augmented. Quarto Part I and large octavo two volumes xx 494 and xxxviii 495-888 pages with numerous hieroglyphics and 49 pages of tomb-plans depicting over 400 tomb-plans plus 27 maps. Cloth; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper of each volume and a bookplate on an early blank in the second volume; an excellent set with the dustwrappers sunned on the spines with a short tear to the head of the first one. 'This edition differs in many respects from its predecessor and the scope has been enlarged to provide a brief description of all scenes in accessible tombs many still unpublished together with tomb-plans and maps showing their position in the necropolis'; the second volume 'completes the catalogue of inscribed monuments from Thebes apart from the standing temples dealt with in Volume II' from the introduction in Parts I and II respectively. 2 items. Griffith Institute, Ashmoleum Museum hardcover
20012091502135303917Kakuzando 2001. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kakuzando paperback
1988137584London: Egypt Exploration Society 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London Egypt Exploration Society 1988 and 1992. Large quarto two volumes xiv 117 pages plus 79 figures including a large folding site plan and 51 plates from photographs; and xx 105 pages plus 81 pages of plates line drawings and from photographs including a large folding site plan. Cloth slightly marked on the first volume; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper of each volume; essentially a fine set with the near-fine dustwrappers. The Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth Excavation Memoirs respectively. 2 items. Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
162356Amsterdam-Antwerpen Uitgeverij Atlas. 2003. Original publisher's paper-covered boards pictorial front- and backcover 4to: Op zoek naar de schat van Toetanchamon - De mummies en hun fascinerende geheimen - Het dagelijk leven ten tijde van de farao's - Prachtige piramiden en mysterieuze sfinxen - Almachtige goden en heilige dieren - Levenskunst in het oude Egypte - Egyptische goden en gewijde feesten - Napoleon Bonaparte en de Egyptische expeditie - Magie en bezwering in het rijk der farao's - Begrafenisriten en de reis naar de andere wereld - De sublieme schat aan Egyptische tempels - Traditionele beroepen in de tijd van de farao's - De roemrijke regeerperiode van farao Ramses II - Egypte mode en manie wereldwijd - De mysterieuze wereld van de jiëroglieven. Each volume pictorial endpapers 126pp. very richly illustrated boxes references. Very fine complete set. Volume 1 - 15: In de Ban van Egypte Complete. Amsterdam-Antwerpen, Uitgeverij Atlas. 2003 hardcover
2005137213Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005. Quarto xiv 202 pages with 254 illustrations 127 from photographs. Cloth; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. 'The volume provides a detailed catalogue of 127 stelae many funerary deriving from the Nile Valley now part of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge . Each entry has a photograph of the stela as well as a meticulous line-drawing which enables the texts and iconography to be interpreted' from the dustwrapper blurb. Cambridge University Press hardcover
2007137080New Haven: The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University 2007. Large quarto xlii 420 pages with 171 illustrations some in colour and 8 folding plus 36 pages of plates. Gilt-lettered cloth; top corners slightly bumped; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the very slightly creased dustwrapper. Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale-Institute of Fine Arts Expedition to Egypt Number 8. The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University hardcover
1902118958London: John Murray 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London John Murray 1902. Octavo xviii 122 2 publisher's notice pages with numerous illustrations plus a frontispiece and 16 plates featuring hundreds of illustrations. Cloth lettered in gilt with three illustrations one in gilt on the spine with ones in light blue and light brown on the front cover; top edge gilt; cloth lightly marked rubbed and bumped; endpapers offset with a small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. With 'five hundred examples of scarabs and cylinders the translations by F. Llewellyn Griffith'. John Murray hardcover
1968136878London: Egypt Exploration Society 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Egypt Exploration Society 1968. Large quarto xii 116 pages plus 42 plates many from photographs. Cloth lightly scuffed; edges a little tanned; an excellent copy with a pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Archaeological Survey of Egypt Thirty-second Memoir. Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
2006137221London: Egypt Exploration Society 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. London Egypt Exploration Society 2006. Quarto xviii 336 pages with 4 tables and 87 illustrations plus 40 pages of plates many from photographs. Colour-pictorial papered boards very lightly scuffed; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a near-fine copy. Excavation Memoir 77. Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
188968244London: Messrs. Trübner & Co 1889. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio 32 cm 1/4 black cloth with printed tan paper over boards. Wear to the spine and boards. The cloth spine of the second book is torn with small losses from the spine ends. The second part has a couple of markings on the front cover and a previous owner's brief inscription in small pen on the front free endpaper. The pages are very occasionally uncut. The text blocks are sturdy. Part I: Frontispiece; 16 plates; 2 folding plates. Part II: 12 plates; 51 plates. Plate XXV comes after Plate XXVI. May require extra postage due to size and weight. British archaeologist and Egyptologist Sir William Matthews Flinders Petrie 1853-1942 made significant contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating method that made possible the reconstruction of history from the remains of ancient cultures. Petrie lived in a tent and a basic house at the Tanis site from February 4 until June 23rd 1884 in relative isolation. While excavating the Temple of Tanis Petrie discovered fragments of a mammoth statue of Ramses II. He was knighted in 1923. Messrs. Trübner & Co hardcover
1955136947Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Cambridge Harvard University Press 1955. Large quarto xviii 110 pages with 148 figures plus 55 pages of plates from photographs. Cloth a little marked; top edge a little foxed; endpapers a little tanned and lightly foxed with a small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a very good copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little tanned foxed and torn with a little loss to silverfish to the spine. Harvard University Press hardcover
1966137101Berkeley: University of California Press 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Berkeley University of California Press 1966 and 1968 both first editions. Quarto two volumes xxviii 271 and xl 548 pages with a total of 371 illustrations over 70 from photographs plus 32 pages of plates 17 in colour. Pictorial cloth Volume II a little sunned on the spine; Volume III has an unevenly tanned bottom edge and slightly tape-stained pastedowns; small name-stamp on both front free endpapers; overall an excellent pair with the dustwrapper on only Volume III now a little rubbed and tape-marked. The first volume in the series 'From the Earliest Times to the End of the Old Kingdom' was first published in Cairo in 1954. 2 items. University of California Press hardcover
1977137104London: Academic Press 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Academic Press 1977. Small quarto two volumes xxxiv 452 xlii and xxxiv 453-878 xlii pages with over 340 illustrations plus 10 pages of colour plates. Gilt-decorated cloth; small name-stamp on the half-title of each volume; minimal signs of age and use; an excellent set with the slightly chipped and rubbed dustwrappers. 2 items. Academic Press hardcover
1974136876London: The Egypt Exploration Society 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Egypt Exploration Society 1974. Large quarto two volumes xvi 98 and xii 142 pages plus 200 plates many folding many from photographs. Cloth a little scuffed and lightly indented chiefly the front cover of second volume; edges and endpapers a little tanned; overall an excellent set with a pictorial bookplate on each front pastedown. The Archaeological Survey of Egypt Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Memoirs. 2 items. The Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
1999137177Oxford: Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oxford Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1999. Quarto three volumes lii 482; lxii 483-1181; and viii 136 pages. Cloth; small name-stamp on each front free endpaper; a fine set with the fine dustwrappers. 'The first seven volumes of the "Topographical Bibliography" list ancient Egyptian monuments still in situ those found in controlled excavations or those for which the original location can be established with certainty. There is however a very large number of objects the provenance of which is not known and it includes some of the best-known monuments. Volume VIII contains references to statues in museums and private collections as well as to those which have passed through various sales and auctions only to disappear from sight once again' from the dustwrapper blurb. 3 items. Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum hardcover
