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Jondet, Gaston.
Les ports submergés de l'ancienne île de Pharos. (Mémoires présentés à l'Institut Égyptien et publiés sous les auspices de Sa Hautesse Hussein Kamel, Sultan d'Égypte, Tome IX).
Quarto. Pp. 101, (3). Plus a number of colour lithograph plates, collotype picture plates, and engraved maps, all outside the pagination. Plus 4 folding colour lithograph maps, bound at end, the largest measuring over 50 x 100cm. Text figures, table. Triple crescent and star device to title. Serial-title, volume-title, and half-title present. Six appendices. Hardcover, handsomely bound in quarter polished calf and matching cloth, large spine with gilt ruled raised bands, gilt lettering, decorative endpapers, with the original printed wrappers bound in, these a bit frayed. In a very fine condition, displaying fresh interior and crisp maps. Excellent copy. ~ First edition. Mémoires présentés à l'Institut Égyptien et publiés sous les auspices de Sa Hautesse Hussein Kamel, Sultan d'Égypte, Tome IX. Very rare. Beinlich-Seeber 10459.
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Norden, Frédéric-Louis [Friderik Ludvig]. Gravé par Tardieu l'ainé.
Voyage d'Égypte et de Nubie, I-III. [AND:] Atlas composé d'une carte et de vingt-deux planches. (Bibliothèque Portative des Voyages, X-XIII). [FOUR VOLUMES].
Four volumes. Comprising of 3 Text Volume and an Atlas. Small octavo. Pp. 159; 192; 205. [AND:] Atlas containing 23 plates, numbered I-XXIII, comprising of a finely engraved folding map and 22 finely engraved views, 16 of which are double-page, the others mostly with multiple images to each. Hardcover, the text volumes are uniformly bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines with raised bands between compartments, direct gilt lettering and volume number, black fleurons in remainders, gilt ornamentation at head and foot, handsome marbled endpapers, joints of one spine neatly mended. In fine condition, bright interiors. The Atlas is slightly larger as issued, keeping ample margins all around, and bound differently in full tree calf, gilt tooled sides and edges, gilt spine, crimson morocco lettering-piece in gilt, marbled endpapers; bit rubbed in places, spine ends chipped, corner-tips bit worn, light foxing and yellowing mostly to blank margins and verso of plates, small old mark to verso of one plate. In a very good condition. A charming copy. A very attractive set. ~ Bibliothèque Portative des Voyages, X-XIII. Norden's "Voyage d'Égypte et de Nubie" was first published posthumously in 1755, by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Norden, who died in 1742, managed to see part of his work in print when he published in 1741 a pilot edition under the title "Drawings of Some Ruins and Colossal Statues at Thebes in Egypt". Complete set, the text volumes with the small bookplate of Docteur Rickaert inside each cover.
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Craddock, P. T.; M. J. Hughes (Editors).
Furnaces and Smelting Technology in Antiquity. (British Museum Occasional Paper No. 48).
Quarto. Pp. iv, 244. Profusely illustrated. Original illustrated stiff wrappers. A BRAND NEW copy. - - First published 1985. British Museum Research Laboratories, Occasional Paper No. 48.
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Bethge, Hans-Gebhard; Stephen Emmel; Karen L. King; Imke Schletterer.
For the Children, Perfect Instruction: Studies in Honor [Honour] of Hans-Martin Schenke on the Occasion of the Berliner Arbeitskreis für koptisch-gnostische Schriften's Thirtieth [30th] Year. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, LIV, 54).
Crown quarto. Pp. xiv, 447, (iii). Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's decorative boards. In fine condition. ~ First edition.
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Oort, Johannes van; Otto Wermelinger; Gregor Wurst.
Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West: Proceedings of the Fribourg-Utrecht Symposium of the International Association of manichaean Studies (IAMS). (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, XLIX, 49).
Crown quarto. Pp. x, 337, (iii). Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's decorative boards. In mint condition. Excellent copy, practically unused. ~ First edition.
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Broek, Roelof van den.
Studies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity. (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, XXXIX, 39).
Crown quarto. Pp. ix, 300, (ii). Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, with dust-jacket. As-New. Excellent copy, practically unused. ~ First edition.
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Frickel, Josef. (Martin Krause, Editor).
Hellenistische Erlösung in Christlicher Deutung. Quellenkritische Studien; Strukturanalyse; Schichtenscheidung; Rekonstruktion der Anthropos-Lehrschrift. (Nag Hammadi Studies, XIX, 19).
Crown quarto. Pp. (iv), 279. With 3 original Corrigenda leaves laid-in. Bound in the original publisher's stiff wrappers. In mint condition. Excellent copy, practically unused. ~ First edition.
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Stroumsa, Gedaliahu A. G.
Another Seed: Studies in Gnostic Mythology. (Nag Hammadi Studies, XXIV, 24).
Crown quarto. Pp. (iv), 195. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. In fine condition. ~ First edition.
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Scholer, David M. (George W. Macrae, Editor).
Nag Hammadi Bibliography, 1948-1969. (Nag Hammadi Studies, I, 1).
Crown quarto. Pp. xvi, 201. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, underlines and annotations in pencil to text. In good condition. ~ First edition.
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Ménard, Jacques-É. (Martin Krause, Editor).
L'Évangile Selon Thomas. (Nag Hammadi Studies, V, 5).
Crown quarto. Pp. x, 252. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, underlines and annotations in pencil to text. In a very good condition. ~ First edition.
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Ménard, Jacques-É. (Editor).
Les textes de Nag Hammadi. Colloque de Centre d'Histoire des Religions (Strasbourg, 23-25 octobre 1974). (Nag Hammadi Studies, VII, 7).
Crown quarto. Pp. x, 203. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, underlines and annotations in pencil to text. In a very good condition. ~ First edition.
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Koschorke, Klaus; Martin Krause (Editor).
Die Polemik der Gnostiker gegen das kirchliche Christentum. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Nag-Hammadi-Traktate "Apokalypse des Petrus" (NHC VII,3) und "Testimonium Veritatis" (NHC IX,3). (Nag Hammadi Studies, XII, 12).
Crown quarto. Pp. xiv, 274. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, pencil annotations and underlining inside. In a very good condition. ~ First edition.
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Pearson, Birger A. (Editor).
Nag Hammadi Codices IX and X. (The Coptic Gnostic Library). (Nag Hammadi Studies, XV.
Crown quarto. Pp. xxix, (ii), 397. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine, pencil annotations and underlining inside. In fine condition. ~ First edition. The Coptic Gnostic Library. Nag Hammadi Studies, XV. Coptolog Dr. Helderman's copy with his minute stamp to first free endpaper.
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Browne, G. M.; Stephen Emmel; Karlheinz Schüssler (Editors).
Journal of Coptic Studies, I-XII (1-12), (1990-2010). [12 VOLUMES].
Twelve volumes. Crown quarto. Each volume illustrated with plates. Bound in the original publisher's stiff wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent set. ~ First edition, first 12 volumes of the Journal, published 1990-2010. Founded by the International Association for Coptic Studies. Multilingual.
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(Société d'Archéologie Copte).
Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie copte, Tome XXXVI (36), (1997).
Crown quarto. Pp. 190. Illustrated. Bound in the original publisher's stiff wrappers. In fine condition. ~ First edition. Multilingual.
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Dawson, Warren R.; Eric P. Uphill.
Who Was Who in Egyptology: A Biographical Index (.).
Royal octavo. Pp. xiv, 315. Frontispiece portrait of Champollion le Jeune. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy with crisp interior. ~ Second, revised edition.
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Edel, Elmar. Rolf Gundlach; Barbara Schwarzkopf.
Altägyptische Grammatik, I-II. (Analecta Orientalia, 34/39). [AND:] Register der Zitate. [THREE VOLUMES].
Three volumes. Quarto. Pp. xliv, 378, 379-397 (Wortregister), 15 (Paradigms); lxxxiii, 379-625; ix, 54. The pagination is indeed erratic, ignoring the section of the Wortregister. Hardcover, the first two volumes uniformly bound in most attractive three-quarter crimson morocco, gilt ornate spines, endpapers repeating snakeskin motif of covers. The Register is in the original printed wrappers. In pristine condition. Superb set, exceptionally well preserved. ~ First edition. Analecta Orientalia, 34; 34/39. "Wichtiger Hinweis zu E. Edel, Altägyptische Grammatik (An Or 34/39)" is loosely inserted.
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Sharpe, Samuel.
Hebrew Inscriptions, from the Valleys between Egypt and Mount Sinai, in their Original Characters, with Translations and an Alphabet.
Two parts in one volume. Octavo. Pp. viii, 108, plus 20 plates; vi, 32, plus 13 plates. Both title-pages and half-title pages are present. Bound in neat brown cloth, gilt lettering and shelf number to spine, card to last blank, small stamps to title. Handsome ex-lib copy. ~ First edition.
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Böckh [Boeckh], August.
Erklärung einer Aegyptischen Urkunde auf Papyrus in Griechischer Cursivschrift v. Jahre 104. v.d. Christlichen Zeitrechnung, in der öffentlichen Sitzung der Königl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften den 24. Januar vorgelesen.
Quarto. Pp. 36. Plus large folding lithographic plate bound at end. Bound in contemporary limp boards, trifle soiled at back. In fine condition. Excellent interior. ~ First edition. Very rare, not in Beinlich-Seeber. August Böckh (1785-1867).
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Champollion, Jean-François (Le Jeune).
NOTICES DESCRIPTIVES. Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie. Notices descriptives conformes aux manuscrits autographes, rédigés sur les lieux par Champollion le Jeune, publiée sous les direction de M. Le Victome de Rouge, I-II in V. [AND:] Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie, d'après les dessins exécutés sur les lieux sous la direction de Champollion-le-Jeune, et les descriptions autographes qu'il en a rédigées; publiés sous les auspices de M. Guizot et de M. Thiers, par une commission spéciale. Planches, I-IV. [9 VOLUMES].
Six volumes bound in 9. Quarto. Complete set, consisting of the following: Two Text Volumes bound in five. I. Pp. 294; 295-599; 600-917; II. 358; 359-720. [AND:] 4 Plate Volumes, comprising of a total of 446 plates (100 plates to each of the first 3 volumes; 146 plates to the 4th volume). Uniformly bound in the original card wrappers. A fine, crisp set. ~ First published by Firmin Didot, 1835-45. Scarce in its completion.
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Poole, Reginald Stuart; Head; Gardner; Wroth; Hill.
A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, I-XXIX. (29 VOLUMES. COMPLETE SET).
29 volumes. Profusely illustrated with extended sections of plates. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher's blue cloth. In fine condition. Excellent set, many volumes are practically unused. ~ Rare complete set of the original reprint. First printed 1873-1927. The British Museum published its massive collection of Greek coins in 29 volumes, presented herewith in full. The series, "BMC Greek", is the largest collection of ancient Greek coins ever published. The volumes are: (i) Italy (Poole, Head and Gardner, 1873); (ii) Sicily (Poole, Head and Gardner, 1876); (iii) The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c (Head and Gardner, 1877); (iv) Seleucid Kings of Syria (Gardner, 1878); (v) Macedonia (Head, 1879); (vi) The Ptolemies, Kings of Egypt (Poole, 1883); (vii) Thessaly to Aetolia (Gardner, 1883); (viii) Central Greece (Head, 1884); (ix) Crete and the Aegean Islands (Wroth, 1886); (x) Peloponnesus (Gardner, 1887); (xi) Attica, Megaris, Aegina (Head, 1888); (xii) Corinth and Colonies (Head, 1889); (xiii) Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia and Kingdom of Bosporus (Wroth, 1889); (xiv) Mysia (Wroth, 1892); (xv) Alexandria and the Nomes (Poole, 1892); (xvi) Ionia (Head, 1892); (xvii) Troas, Aeolis and Lesbos (Wroth, 1894); (xviii) Caria and the Islands (Head, 1897); (xix) Lycia, Pamphylia and Pisidia (Hill, 1897); (xx) Galatia, Cappadocia and Syria (Wroth, 1899); (xxi) Lycaonia, Isauria and Cilicia (Hill, 1900); (xxii) Lydia (Head, 1902); (xxiii) Parthia (Wroth, 1903); (xxiv) Cyprus (Hill, 1904); (xxv) Phrygia (Head, 1906); (xxvi) Phoenicia (Hill, 1910); (xxvii) Palestine (Hill, 1914); (xxviii) Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persia (Hill, 1922); (xxix) Cyrenaica (Robinson, 1927). - - NOTE: A very heavy set, over 30 kg.
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Vandier, Jacques.
Le papyrus Jumilhac. I. Text; II. Plates. [TWO VOLUMES].
Two volumes. Royal quarto. I. Text: Pp. 349. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full buckram, green lettering embossed on cover and spine; spine trifle faded, top-edge trifle spotted, signature to half-title. II. Plates: 24 plates, numbered I-XXIII plus I.bis, printed in collotype, bound in the original plain wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent set. ~ First edition. Collotype is 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. [We also offer Philippe Derchain: "L'auteur du Papyrus Jumilhac" (Revue d'Égyptologie, 1990), which might be of interest in this context].
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Buck, A. de.
Egyptisch leesboek. I. Teksten; II. Teeken- en woordenlijst. [TWO VOLUMES].
Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 80; 81-112. Original printed wrappers soiled; some foxing. In good condition. ~ First edition. Lithographed from the original manuscript.
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Maspero, Gaston. Pierre Lacau.
Les enseignements d'Amenemhaît Ier à son fils Sanouasrît Ier. (Bibliothèque d'Étude, Tome VI).
Crown quarto. Pp. lvii, 138. Hardcover, bound in brown boards and buckram spine, original title laid-down on upper cover, fading manuscript title to spine. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Bibliothèque d'Étude, Tome sixième.
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Sethe, Kurt.
Aegyptische [Ägyptische] Lesestücke zum Gebrauch im akademischen Unterricht. Texte des Mittleren Reiches. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage.
Crown quarto. Pp. 100. With the original Errata slip tipped-in at end. Bound in the original stiff wrappers, some old marginal annotations in a very neat hand. In good condition. ~ Second, improved edition.
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Lange, H. O. (Hans Ostenfeldt); Ad. (Adolf) Erman.
Der magische Papyrus Harris. [AND:] Papyrus Lansing. Eine ägyptische Schulhandschrift der 20. Dynastie. (Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser). [TWO BOOKS].
Two books. Crown quarto. Pp. 99. Without binding. In good condition. ~ First edition. Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser, XIV, 2 and X,3. [ADDED:] Adolf Erman & Hans Ostenfeldt Lange: "Papyrus Lansing. Eine ägyptische Schulhandschrift der 20. Dynastie, herausgegeben und erklärt." Copenhagen, Høst, 1925. Pp. 134. Fine interior without binding.
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Kees, Hermann.
Das alte Ägypten. Eine kleine Landeskunde. Mit 47 Abbildungen und einer Karte.
Crown quarto. Pp. (vi), 199. Plus an extended section of plates with a total of 47 photographic images. Plus a folding map, loosely inserted in pocket. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First edition.
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Janssen, Jozef Marie Antoon.
Vertaling en commentaar der traditioneele Egyptische autobiografische teksten vóór het Nieuwe Rijk.
Crown quarto. Pp. xiii, 208. Original wrappers. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Doctoral Dissertation presented to the University of Leiden. This copy includes also the original 16-point Thesis Statement, loosely inserted.
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Tallqvist, Knut.
Der assyrische Gott. (Societas Orientalis Fennica, IV 3).
Crown quarto. Pp. 134. Hardcover, bound in full blue cloth with manuscript label to spine. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Societas Orientalis Fennica, IV 3.
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Ebeling, Erich.
Quellen zur Kenntnis der babylonischen Religion, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].
Two volumes bound in one. Crown quarto. Pp. 83; 82, plus 3 plates. Hardcover, bound in handsome duotone full cloth; few neat annotations here and there. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First edition. Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft 1918,1, 23. Jahrgang.
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Edel, Elmar. Rolf Gundlach; Barbara Schwarzkopf.
Altägyptische Grammatik, I-II. (Analecta Orientalia, 34/39). [AND:] Register der Zitate. [THREE VOLUMES. COMPLETE].
Three volumes. Quarto. Pp. xliv, 378, 379-397 (Wortregister), 15 (Paradigms); lxxxiii, 379-625; ix, 54. The pagination is indeed erratic, ignoring the section of the Wortregister. Uniformly bound in the original publisher's printed wrappers. In fine condition. Excellent set, preserved entirely in the original state. ~ First edition. Analecta Orientalia, 34; 34/39. "Wichtiger Hinweis zu E. Edel, Altägyptische Grammatik (An Or 34/39)" is loosely inserted.
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Michel, Cécile.
Old Assyrian Bibliography of Cuneiform Texts, Bullae, Seals, and the Results of the Excavations at Assur, Kültepe / Kanis, Acemhöyük, Alisar and Bogazköy. (Old Assyrian Archives, Studies, I).
Crown quarto. Pp. x, 203. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. A Brand New copy. ~ First edition. Old Assyrian Archives, Studies, Volume I.
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Matthiae, Paolo; Maurits van Loon; Harvey Weiss.
Resurrecting the Past: A joint Tribute to Adnan Bounni.
Crown quarto. Pp. 407. Profusely illustrated throughout with numerous figures, plans, and photographs on 140 plates. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. A BRAND NEW copy. ~ First edition. With contributions in English, German, French and Italian.
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(Pettinato, Giovanni).
Thesaurus Inscriptionum Eblaicarum. Volume A, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].
Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xlvii, 171; liii, 171. Uniformly bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition, practically new. ~ First edition.
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Fleisch, Henri.
Les verbes à allongement vocalique interne en sémitique. (Études de grammaire comparée).
Crown quarto. Pp. xxx, 532. Bound in half crimson cloth and matching boards, gilt spine. Mint NEW copy. ~ Facsimile reprint of the 1944 edition. Travaux et mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie, XLIII. From the private collection of Prof. Hans-Rudolf Singer with a small ticket to that effect on first free endpaper.
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Fronzaroli, Pelio.
Miscellanea Eblaitica, 1. (Quaderni di Semitistica, 15).
Royal octavo. Pp. ix, 277. Bound in the original stiff wrappers. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Quaderni di Semitistica, 15.
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Fronzaroli, Pelio; Giovanni Conti.
Miscellanea Eblaitica 1; Miscellanea Eblaitica 2; Miscellanea Eblaitica 3 (Il sillabario della quarta fonte della lista lessicale bilingue Eblaita. [THREE VOLUMES]. (Quaderni di Semitistica, 15-17).
Three volumes. Royal octavo. Pp. ix, 277; vi, 201; viii, 220. Uniformly bound in the original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. ~ First edition. Quaderni di Semitistica 15-17.
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Thureau-Dangin, F. (Hammurapi; Hammurabi).
La correspondance de Hammurapi avec Samas-Hasir. [AND:] Lettres de Hammurapi a Samas-Hasir. 38 Planches. (Textes Cunéiformes, VII; Revue d'Assyriologie, XXI). [TWO VOLUMES]
Two volumes. Quarto. I. Text: Pp. 58, bound in contemporary half cloth, gilt spine, with original printed wrappers bound-in. II. Plates: Pp. 8, plus 38 single-sheet plates, printed by Gaillac-Monrocq, placed in original quarter cloth portfolio, bit worn and soiled. In a very good condition, fine plates. ~ First edition. Text volume first edition thus, first published in Revue d'Assyriologie, XXI, 1-2. Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Orientales.
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Giacumakis, George.
The Akkadian of Alalah. (Janua Linguarum. Studia Memoriae Nicolai van Wijk Dedicata. Series Practica, 59).
Crown quarto. Pp. 119. Bound in the original stiff wrappers with integral dust-jacket; ownership signature to title-page. In good condition. ~ First edition. Janua Linguarum. Studia Memoriae Nicolai van Wijk Dedicata. Series Practica, 59. ~ ADDED: The Akkadian of Alalah, Reviewed by Erica Reiner, University of Chicago, reprinted from Language, (1973).
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Klauber, Ernst.
Assyrisches Beamtentum nach Briefen aus der Sargonidenzeit.
Octavo. Pp. 115. Without binding. In good condition. ~ First edition. Dissertation.
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Eschebach, Hans; Liselotte Eschebach. (Erika Eschebach; Jürgen Müller-Trollius).
Pompeji vom 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis 79 n. Chr.
Quarto. Pp. xiv, 213. Portrait frontispiece. Plus extended suite of plates bound at end, and a very large map, scale 1:1000, folded in rear pocket. With a second map, scale 1:2000, printed in colour bound in. Numerous illustrations to text, some of which are folding, some printed in colour. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's illustrated boards. A BRAND NEW copy. - - First edition.
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Buck, A. de.
Egyptisch leesboek. I. Teksten; II. Teeken- en woordenlijst. [TWO VOLUMES].
Two volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 80; 81-112. Original printed wrappers bit discoloured, old stamp to title-page. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Lithographed from the original manuscript.
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Meulenaere, H. (Herman) De.
Le surnom egyptien a la Basse Epoque.
Crown quarto. Pp. x, 41. Original printed stiff wrappers, stamp to first blank. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Publications de l'Institut historique et archéologique néerlandais de Stamboul, XIX.
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Gobineau, Joseph Arthur, Comte de.
Traité des écritures cunéiformes. Tome I: Livre I. L'écriture cunéiforme assyrienne; Livre II. L'écriture cunéiforme zende; Livre III. L'écriture cunéiforme Huzwaresh; Tome II: Livre IV. Commentaire. [TWO VOLUMES. WITH AN ADDITIONAL PLATE].
Four parts in two volumes. Crown quarto. With a total of 19 plates. Pp. 373, plus 16 folding plates bound at end; 378, plus 2 folding plates bound at end, neat repair to one. Plus a 3rd folding plate, called-for but not present in most other copies that we saw, bound here in its rightful place. Some nice text figures to each volume. Both half-titles present, that of first volume with some evidence of minor silverfish activity at outer edge. Hardcover, uniformly bound in later brick red cloth and matching marbled boards, gilt red morocco label to each spine, sprinkled edges, silken ribbon marker to each volume; thin adhesive mark to first free endpaper of one volume. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Complete as called-for, including the practically always missing additional plate in volume II. Joseph-Arthur, Comte de Gobineau (1816-1882). Diplomat, orientalist, a novelist of distinction. While he is perhaps most known for arguing that racial composition determines the fate of civilization, being called the "intellectual father" of Nietzsche, Gobineau's most concrete scholarly effort was in the field of cuneiform studies. In those years in which Hincks, Rawlinson, and Oppert were gradually realizing that the Akkadian language could not account for all ancient cuneiform texts and for the inner structure of cuneiform writing, Gobineau attacked the three of them in his essay Lecture des textes cuneiformes, which he later expanded in the two volumes of "Traité des écritures cuneiformes". Gobineau argued that cuneiform texts were sacred writings, written in a cryptic form for "talismanic" purposes, and that if one reads them with the system of transposition of letters employed by the Hebrew Cabbalists, they proved to be written in Arabic. He produced a marvel of combinatory devices by which the texts not only proved to be alliterative poetry conforming to strict rules of prosody, but also could be read backwards and forwards, so that what was a blessing read as a curse in the opposite direction.
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Giorgi, Antonio Agostino; Stefano Borgia. [Augustini Antonii Georgii Georgius; Stephani Card. Borgiae].
De miraculis Sancti Coluthi et reliquiis actorum Sancti Panesniv martyrum Thebaica fragmenta duo, alterum auctius, alterum nunc primum editum praeit dissertatio eminentissimi Stephani Card. Borgiae De cultu S. Coluthi M. Accedunt fragmenta varia notis inserta omnia ex Museo Borgiano Veliterno deprompta et illustrata opera. [Coluthus].
Thick quarto (31x22.5 cm). Pp. cccxx, 416. Large woodcut device as tail-piece at end of opening poem. Hardcover, bound in recent black full cloth, gilt lettering-piece to spine, with contemporary decorative wrappers bound-in; light dampmark in blank lower corner of a small section of leaves, first and last leaves bit edge frayed. In a near fine condition. A wide-margined copy. Nicely bound tome with a rather fresh interior. ~ First edition. Giorgi's extended work on Coptic fragments was published shortly after Mingarelli's Latin translation in "Aegiptiorum codicum reliquiae Venetiis (.)". Antonio Agostino Giorgi (1711-1797).
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Veenhof, Klaas R. (Editor).
Houses and Households in Ancient Mesopotamia. Papers read at the 40e Rencontre Assyriologique International, Leiden, July 5-8, 1993.
Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 326. With numerous text figures, photographs and plans. With the Errata slip laid-in. Original stiff wrappers. A BRAND NEW copy. - - First edition.
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Naville, Edouard.
Das aegyptische Totenbuch [ägyptische Todtenbuch] der XVIII. bis XX. Dynastie, aus verschiedenen Urkunden zusammengestellt und herausgegeben. III. Einleitung.
Quarto. Pp. v, (iii), 204. Original wrappers. BRAND NEW. ~ Originally published in 1886 by A. Asher, Berlin.
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Helck, Wolfgang.
Zur Verwaltung des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs. [AND:] Digital Register, zum 60. Geburtstag des Verfassers zusammengestellt.
Crown quarto. Pp. viii, 550. Plus folding plates. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine; tiny stain on back cover. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First edition. Probleme der Ägyptologie, III. The Register volume (Probleme der Ägyptologie, IIIa) was compiled at the Ägyptologischen Abteilung der Universität Hamburg and published in a small edition in 1975. It is provided herewith in digital form in its completeness, scanned in high resolution.
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Sethe, Kurt. (Georg Steindorff).
Urkunden der 18. Dynastie, I. Bearbeitet und Übersetzt. (Urkunden des Aegyptischen Altertums, Abteilung IV, Band I).
Octavo. Pp. 142. Hardcover, bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards with the original publisher's printed wrappers laid-down. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. The first volume in the extensive work of the translation of the Historical Records into German. Covering Urkunden 1-313 of the original records. The work was complete in 1961 by Wolfgang Helck. With introduction by Georg Steindorff. Beinlich-Seeber 18529.
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Kaczmarczyk, Alexander; Robert E. M. Hedges.
Ancient Egyptian Faience: An Analytical Survey of Egyptian Faience from Predynastic to Roman Times.
Crown quarto. Pp. x, 587. Plates, text figures, diagrams, tables. Appendices, indices, references, bibliography. Original stiff wrappers. In a very good condition. ~ First edition.
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