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Lower corners bumped. Minor shelfwear . ; Sometime in the early fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this head of a priest, likely a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have been damaged when the Persians conquered Egypt in 343 BC, before it was buried in a temple complex. Its adventures were not over: after almost two millennia, the head was excavated by Auguste Mariette, a founding figure in French archaeology. Sent to France as part of a collection assembled for the inimitable Bonaparte prince known as Plon-Plon, it found a home in his faux Pompeian palace. After disappearing again, it resurfaced in the collection of American aesthete Edward Perry Warren, who donated it to the MFA, Boston. Along the way, this compelling, mysterious sculpture has reflected the evolving understanding of Egyptian art. ; 8.4 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 208 pages
Minor shelfwear. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 8 pages
Narrating the development and disappearance of the world's first war machine, this book reminds readers that much of the power of ancient empires was two-wheeled and horse-driven. Harnessed to other historians' broad-spectrum research on the causes of the end of the Bronze Age, Cotterell argues that, much like the later introduction of the stirrup, chariot technology dramatically recast battlefield strategy across the ancient world. Egyptians employed chariots as all-purpose fighting machines, while Roman chariots were more ceremonial, and Indian troops used theirs as archery platforms; Chinese engineers developed more efficient harnesses, permitting heavier cars. The author's comparative approach broadens the appeal of what would otherwise seem a narrow topic, but this account nevertheless behaves as a detailed military history. Particularly interesting for such scholarship, the author also discusses the chariot as a vehicle for modern popular culture; it aims to dispel the notion that chariots were simply horse-pulled tanks. Scholarly yet accessible, ; 344 pages
Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has light edgewear now in mylar. ; 223pp, nicely illustrated.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 223 pages
Dustjacket has wear but no tears. ; This is the story of the technical, financial and economic colonisation of Egypt by Western Europe between Napoleon's invasion in 1798 and the British occupation in 1882. During this period a country which remained, formally, a province of the Ottoman Empire enjoying a considerable measure of autonomy, in fact fell almost entirely under the control of European foreigners. John Marlowe begins by describing how the French invasion opened up Egypt to Western influences, and how British involvement derived principally from anxiety over communications with India. He goes on to demonstrate how the economic and financial invasion of Egypt which started after the defeat and diminution of Mohamed Ali in 1840 was facilitated by the extraterritorial privileges and immunities conferred on Europeans by the Capitulations; and how this invasion was accelerated and complicated by rivalry and suspicion between the Powers, and was made lethal to Egypt by the folly of her rulers. Under Mohamet Said (1854-63) and Ismail (1853 until his deposition in 1879) the key word in Egyptian affairs was 'loan'. A defenceless country which offered rich prizes to European investors and adventurers was steered into bankruptcy by men governing in a despotic tradition who regarded the country's wealth as their own and whose only remedy for debt was to borrow more. ; 280 pages
Very light shelfwear. Else fine. ; Egyptian Bookshelf; 96 pages; One of the most outstanding inventions of ancient Egypt was the making of "paper" from the papyrus plant. As early as 3000 B. C. , sheets and rolls of papyrus provided an ideal surface for writing with reed pen and cakes of carbon black and red ochre pigment. Egyptian scribes were able to record on papyri everyday details such as administrative records, legal documents, and letters of business and personal life. Equally important for our understanding of ancient Egypt, pen and papyrus were used to record literary texts, tales, and moral instructions, as well as compendia of Egyptian knowledge exemplified by the famous Rhind Mathematical Papyrus and the books of treatment, prescriptions, and recitations for healing. Religious hymns and litanies are recorded, as are the great formulae to secure life after death--the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead. In this book, Richard Parkinson and Stephen Quirke freshly examine the methods of papyrus-making and its different uses, not only under the Pharaohs, but also other Egyptian civilizations such as the Hellenistic kingdom of the Ptolemies and the colonial rule of the Roman Empire. Papyrus remained the writing material of the Mediterranean world until it was eclipsed by the cloth paper of the Orient in the ninth century A. D. , bringing four thousand years of writing tradition to an end.
Pages unopened. Light tanning to pages. ; Vorträge Der Theologischen Konferenz Zu Giessen 34; 26 pages
Pictorial boards. Light sheflwear. ; 122 pages
in-8°, 381 pages, illustrations hors texte N&B/couleurs, broche, couverture illustree plastifiee. Bel exemplaire [CA32-1]
pp.73-87 avec ills., 26cm., extrait du "Muséon" tome 51 (1938), br. (peu usée), bon état, C75719
14pp., 23cm., br.orig., extrait des "Annales de l'Académie royale d'archéologie de Belgique" (7e série, t.IV), bon état, C85291
32pp., 23cm., in the periodical "Der alte Orient" 3. Jahrgang Heft 4, original softcover, few foxing, pages uncut, good condition, [text printed in Gothic German], C74421
Very light shelfwear. ; Graeco-Roman Memoirs No. 59; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 50 pages
Creasing to lower corner of book. ; Graeco-Roman Memoirs No. 59; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 50 pages
grand in-8 carre, 60 pp., entierement illustre en couleurs, broche, couv. illustree. Tres bel exemplaire, tres frais. [TX-1]
Hardcover - in-4° 84 pages, texte sur 2 colonnes, nombreuses illustrations en couleurs et noir et blanc, cartonnage illustre de l"editeur, sous jaquette illustree.. Bel exemplaire. [PLC-4]
viii + 222pp.+ 89 ills.hors-texte, 24cm., 2e éd., br.orig.
24pp.illustré de 8 figures, 24cm., br.orig. peu taché, bon état, C85290
Préface de Aly Maher el Sayed . Nombreuses photographies en couleurs . Imprimé sur bon papier . Egyptologie . Archéologie . Beaux-Arts . - 124 p. , 1 kg. 400 gr.
Edition hors commerce . Très belle monographie sur papier couché , illustrée de splendides photographies en couleurs . On ne présente plus l'auteur qui a déjà beaucoup écrit sur la spiritualité de ce peuple ancien qui a influençé notre propre structure mentale et qui nous livre peu à peu les secrets de sa propre initiation aux anciens symboles et relations entre l'humain , le pouvoir et la nature . Archéologie , Egyptologie , Religion spiritualité . - 64 p. , 250gr.
28pp., avec 16 planches en phototypie et une carte dépliante hors-texte, br.orig., 20cm., bon état, C85301
32pp.with 7 ills., 23cm., in the periodical "Der alte Orient" 5. Jahrgang Heft 1, original softcover, few foxing, good condition, [text printed in Gothic German], C74422
200pp.rijkelijk geïll.in kleur, gecart.band, 24cm., mooie staat, [Tentoonstellingscatalogus: Brussel, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, 30.11.1985-28.02.1986]
69pp.with 1 map, 111 illustrations and 16 tables, 24cm., in the series "Morgenland. Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des alten Orients" vol.12, ex.libr.copy
32pp.with ills., 23cm., in the periodical "Der alte Orient" 8. Jahrgang Heft 2, original softcover, few foxing, good condition, [text printed in Gothic German], C74423
