Two volumes. Royal quarto. I. Text: Pp. viii, 273, plus one plate; II. Plates: Pp. iv, plus 50 large plates, many of which are folding, all printed in fine collotype on thick paper. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher's brown full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine; short nick at head of one spine. In fine condition, crisp plates. ~ First edition. Catalogo del Museo Egizio di Torino, Serie Prima: Monumenti e Testi, Volume I. ~"The long-expected publication of the 45 Demotic papyri which are found, together with five others, written in Greek (published by M. Norsa and G. Vitelli in 'Papiri greci e latini della Società italiana, II, [1929], by Schiaparelli in 1905 in the neighbourhood of the temple of Deir e-Medina. They are at present in the Museo Egizio in Turin." - Annual Egyptological Bibliography, 67083 (1967). The wonderful plates are printed in collotype, one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. [TOGETHER WITH:] Karl-Theodor Zauzich: "Korrekturvorschläge zur Publikation des demotischen Archivs von Deir el-Medineh, I-III." Three parts in one volume. Quarto. Pp. 43-56; 85-96; 63-70. (Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1973). Sonderuck aus Encoria, 1971-73. Published here for the first time in its completeness, Zauzich's "Companion" to Botti's work is of essential importance. Dedicated and signed by the author. [ADDED:] In 1969 Zauzich published an extended review of Botti's work in "Bibliotheca Orientalis". An offprint of this review is herewith added. A unique scholar's copy from the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011).
