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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
2000137102Oxford: Oxbow Books 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Oxford Oxbow Books 2000. Small quarto vi 352 pages plus a frontispiece and 8 pages of plates. Papered boards slightly marked; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper lightly sunned about the spine. Two newspaper obituaries of the author are loosely inserted. Oxbow Books hardcover
1963137064London: Egypt Exploration Society 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London Egypt Exploration Society 1963. Large quarto xii 108 pages plus 75 pages of plates 25 folding. Cloth lightly sunned on the spine; bottom edge a little tanned; essentially a fine copy with a pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown. The Archaeological Survey of Egypt Thirty-first Memoir. Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
1998137518London: Thames and Hudson 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. London Thames and Hudson 1998. Large quarto 288 pages with 482 illustrations 224 in colour. Papered boards slightly rubbed along the bottom edges; small name-stamp on the half-title; a near-fine copy with the lightly scuffed dustwrapper. Thames and Hudson hardcover
2010138125London: Egypt Exploration Society 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Egypt Exploration Society 2010. Quarto xx 197 pages with numerous maps diagrams and illustrations. Later papered boards reproducing the original cover design; covers slightly rubbed; laminate lifting about the joints; spine a little canted; ownership stamp on front free endpaper; a very good copy. The eighty-eighth excavation memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society. With contributions from Paul T. Nicholson Pamela J Rose and Robert Jameson. Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
1937137179Bruxells: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique reine Élisabeth 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Bruxells Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique reine Élisabeth 1937. Quarto 23 284 pages plus 96 pages of plates several double-page. Unbound and unopened gatherings loosely inserted in the original printed wrappers as issued; foot of the spine bumped with light associated creasing throughout; wrappers sunned about the spine and a little creased chipped and torn; a very good copy internally excellent. Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca VII. Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique reine Élisabeth paperback
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
1990136866Oxford: Griffith Institute 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oxford Griffith Institute 1990. Quarto xii 40 pages with 25 illustrations of decorative motifs plus 38 plates mainly from photographs. Papered boards; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Tut'Ankhamun's Tomb Series Number IX. Griffith Institute hardcover
182425651Salem Mass: W. & S. B. Ives 1824. Very good overall. A detailed article in a Massachusetts newspaper reporting on the unwrapping of an Egyptian mummy recently brought to Paris in the year that the French scholar Champollion made his breakthrough in Western understanding of ancient Egypt by deciphering the Rosetta Stone. Much detail on the seven layers of wrappings and materials used 12 column inches.<br /> <br /> Followed by an article tilted 'The Island of Madagascar' describing a British naval officer's feast with a local Prince. 16 inches.<br /> <br /> Complete issue 13 x 20" 4pp. Period folds flattened split along spine not affecting text. W. & S. B. Ives unknown
1963137707Oxford: Printed for the Griffith Institute by the University Press by Vivian Ridler 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford Printed for the Griffith Institute by the University Press by Vivian Ridler 1963. Quarto xii 22 pages with 24 pages of plates 13 double page. Cloth a little marked; spine lightly tanned; small ownership stamp on front free endpaper; a few mild signs of handling; a very good copy. Printed for the Griffith Institute by the University Press by Vivian Ridler hardcover
1988136868London: The Egypt Exploration Society 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London The Egypt Exploration Society 1988. Quarto x 230 pages with numerous illustrations plus a frontispiece portrait and 43 pages of plates a few in colour. Cloth; small ownership stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper. Dr Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards CBE FBA 1909-1996 an expert on pyramids was 'a major figure in Egyptology particularly after the Second World War. Curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities 1934 Keeper from 1955-74' British Museum. Number 7 in the Occasional Publications series. The majority of the numerous contributions are in English but there are some in French German or Italian. The Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
1975136857Oxford: B.H. Blackwell Ltd 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford B.H. Blackwell Ltd 1975. Quarto xxxii 416 pages with innumerable hieroglyphics. Red binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine slightly sunned; edges slightly tanned or marked; an excellent copy with a pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown. The first edition of the 'first completed volume' of a work that eventually ran to eight volumes issued in fascicles between 1969 and 1990.'The purpose of this work is simple: to make available the principal texts of the Ramesside age c.1300-1070 BC in a compact and accurate edition that should be comprehensive but handy to use' the preface. B.H. Blackwell Ltd hardcover
1973137136Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Warminster Aris & Phillips Ltd 1973. Quarto vi 353 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs site plans tables and inventories. Later papered boards reproducing the original cover design; spine and bottom edge a little tanned; small ownership stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. A detailed study of the mortuary temple of Sethos Seti I at Abydos. 'From the surviving reliefs on its walls the author reconstructs the rituals which were once performed within the building paying special attention to the Daily Temple Ritual the Ritual of the Royal Ancestors and the Osiris mysteries so closely associated with the site. The spells are translated the order of scenes is established and from these the first convincing picture of ancient Egyptian religious ceremonial emerges' from the blurb. One of the Modern Egyptology series. Aris & Phillips Ltd hardcover
2004137509Leiden: Brill 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Leiden Brill 2004. Octavo xii 290 pages plus 150 plates 43 in colour. Colour-pictorial papered boards; a few tiny indentations to the rear cover; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a near-fine copy. Studies in Textile and Costume History Volume 3. Papers in English French and German presented initially at a symposium in Leiden in 2000. Brill hardcover
1982137531Oxford: Griffith Institute 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Oxford Griffith Institute 1982. Quarto x 77 pages plus 28 pages of plates. Cloth; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the lightly sunned and rubbed dustwrapper. Tut'ankhamun's Tomb Series Number IV. Griffith Institute 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
1993136916Oxford: Griffith Instititute Ashmolean Museum 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford Griffith Instititute Ashmolean Museum 1993. Quarto 180 pages with several illustrations most reproducing hieroglyphic inscriptions plus 10 figures and 42 of 50 pages of plates. Gilt-lettered cloth; spine slightly canted; ownership stamp on front free endpaper; plates 1-8 lacking with plates 10-24 duplicated a production flaw; otherwise an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. Edited by John BAINES. Griffith Instititute, Ashmolean Museum hardcover
1992136867London: The Egypt Exploration Society 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. London The Egypt Exploration Society 1992. Quarto xii 261 pages with numerous illustrations some from photographs plus a frontispiece portrait. Cloth; small ownership stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the very slightly creased dustwrapper. Occasional Publications series number 8. The 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
1980137215London: Aris & Phillips Ltd 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Aris & Phillips Ltd 1980. Quarto viii 120 pages with 2 maps and numerous hieroglyphic illustrations. Later papered boards reproducing the original cover design; covers yellowing around the edges; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a very good copy. Aris & Phillips Ltd hardcover
1973137533Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Warminster Aris & Phillips Ltd. 1973 1977 and 1978 all first editions. Small quarto three volumes xiv 285; x 308; and viii 204 pages. Cloth; covers a little rubbed and sunned; small tape-stains to the cover and pastedowns of the first volume; endpapers unevenly tanned; small name-stamp in each volume; a very good set with the dustwrappers a little sunned and creased with a few light tape-stains to the first one. A 'collection of religious utterances written inside the large rectangular wooden coffins used for interring the wealthy. They date from the Middle Kingdom around the first quarter of the second millennium BC and thus help to fill the great gap between the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom and the Book of the Dead of the New Kingdom' from the dustwrapper blurb. There are a total of 1185 spells with a cumulative index. 3 items. Aris & Phillips Ltd hardcover
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
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
1952124108London: Oxford University Press for the Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Oxford University Press for the Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1952. Folio 445 × 325 mm xviii 42 pages with much text in facsimile and hieroglyphic transcription with 11 illustrations from photographs plus a frontispiece. Light green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine unevenly sunned and slightly marked rubbed and bumped; tiny bump to the top margin of a handful of consecutive leaves with some creases and a very short sealed tear to one of them; mild signs of age and use; ownership details in ink on the front free endpaper; a very good copy. Oxford University Press for the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum hardcover
