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JEQUIER (Gustave)
Histoire de la civilisation égyptienne.
In-8, 332p. Nouvelle édition revue. Orné de 265 gravures in-texte.
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JEQUIER (Gustave)
Considérations sur les religions égyptiennes.
In-8, 248p. Illustré de 101 figures dans le texte. A l'état de neuf, non coupé.
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CENIVAL (Jean-Louis de)
Egypte. Epoque pharaonique.
In-8 carré, 194p. Illustré de nombreuses photographies n/b de Henri Stierlin, plans et croquis. Bibliographie en fin de volume. A l'état de neuf.
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SAMIVEL
Trésor de l'Egypte.
In-4, 210p. Illustré de 114 photographies en noir et blanc tirées en hélio de Michel Audrain. Maquette de Pierre Faucheux. A l'état de neuf.
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SAMIVEL
Trésor de l'Egypte.
In-4, 210p. Illustré de 114 photographies en noir et blanc tirées en hélio de Michel Audrain. Maquette de Pierre Faucheux.
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YOYOTTE (Jean)
Les trésors des pharaons. Les Hautes époques - Le nouvel empire - Les basses époques.
In-4, XII-257p. Introduction de Christiane Desroches Noblecourt. Illustré de 120 reproductions, dont 85 en couleurs contrecollées. Accrocs sans manque à la jaquette, sinon exemplaire en parfaite condition.
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DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT (Christiane)
Vie et mort d'un pharaon Toutankhamon.
In-4, 312p. Importante iconographie en noir et en couleurs. A l'état de neuf.
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ERMAN (Adolphe)
La religion des Egyptiens.
Gr. In-8, 514p. Préface de M. Etienne Drioton. Avec 8 planches hors texte et 186 croquis in-texte. Bel exemplaire.
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BERGER (Jacques-Edouard)
L'oeil et l'éternité. Portraits romains d'Egypte.
In-4, 224p. Importante étude sur les portraits du Fayoum. Avec une riche iconographie en noir et en couleurs établie par René Creux. A l'état de neuf.
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FOUCHET (Max-Pol)
Nubie, splendeur sauvée.
Gr. In-8, 269p. Edition originale numérotée. Illustré de nombreuses photographies en noir et blanc et en couleurs de l'auteur. A l'état de neuf.
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MICHALOWSKI (Kazimierz)
L'art de l'ancienne Egypte.
Gr. In-4, 605p. Ouvrage de référence sur le sujet, rassemblant une importante iconographie en noir et en couleurs. Importante bibliographie et index des noms cités en fin de volume. Manque la jaquette, sinon très bel exemplaire.
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TZARA (Tristan) / SVED (Etienne)
L'Egypte face à face.
In-4, 110p. Edition originale numérotée. Illustré de photographies en noir et blanc d'Etienne Sved reproduites en hélio. Nom de possesseur en page de garde.
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CROZAT (Pierre)
Système constructif des Pyramides.
In-4 carré, 159p. Illustré de nombreux dessins et croquis dans le texte et d'un grand plan dépliant en fin de volume. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.
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GRIFFITH (F. LL)
Beni Hasan, Part IV. Zoological and Other Details. (Seventh Memoir).
In-4, 9 pages + 27 plates. Special publication of the Egyptian Exploration Fund. A volume in the series, Archaeological Survey of Egypt, Edited by Francis Llewellyn Griffith. A clean, unmarked and complete copy complete with 21 beautiful coloured plates, (including frontispiece) plus 6 in outline. In excellent condition.
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BRUNON (Jean et Raoul)
Les Mameluks d'Egypte. Les Mameluks de la Garde Impériale.
In-4, 79p. Edition originale numérotée en chiffres romains 1/50 exemplaires de tete sur Japon (exemplaire N¡ XXXVI). Illustré de 31 planches hors texte en noir et en couleurs. Discrètes décharges de papier collant en 2e et 3e de couverture, sinon très bel exemplaire. Fort rare en grand papier.
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ALDRED (Cyril) et al.
Le temps des Pyramides. De la préhistoire aux Hyksos (1560 av. J.-C.).
In-4, 355p. Illustré de nombreuses photographies n/b et couleurs, plans, croquis. Importante bibliographie et dictionnaire-index en fin de volume. Bel exemplaire. Epuisé.
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BRITISH MUSEUM.
A Guide to the Egyptian Collections in the British Museum. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 53 plates and 180 illustrations in the text; original boards lettered in black, neatly rebacked, a very good, bright, clean copy. First edition of this comprehensive guide. 'An attempt has here been made to present a sketch of the origin, the manners and customs, the language, the writing, the literature, the religion, and the burial rites of the peoples of Egypt, and of their history under the successive dynasties; embodying references to the several objects of the Collection which illustrate the different branches of the subject.'
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BRITISH MUSUEM
A General Introductory Guide to the Egyptian Galleries in the British Museum. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. [Preface by H.R. Hall].
8vo., First Edition thus, with 233 photographs, facsimiles, illustrations and maps in the text; original printed boards, , upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Budge, then Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, compiled his original guide in 1909, since which time it has been several times revised and updated. A lovely copy of an extensive edition.
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LOCK H.O.
With the British Army in the Holy Land.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 5 double-page maps on japon, free endpapers browned from fold-ins; original maroon cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back (lettering faded but entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. Written on active service with the Dorsetshire Regiment, these are the author's personal reminiscences of service in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Palestine. Scarce in this condition. Not recorded by Enser.
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MACMUNN G.
Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from the Outbreak of War with Germany to June 1917. [Vol. I only]. A CAMBERLEY COPY FROM THE BRACKENBURY BEQUEST
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 6 large folding panoramas in sepia-toned collotype, 16 full-page maps in red and black and 2 full-page diagrams in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps, most original tissue guards present; original red cloth, gilt back, case a little shaken (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY FORMED PART OF THE BRACKENBURY BEQUEST TO THE STAFF COLLEGE, CAMBERLEY. It bears the fine engraved armorial Brackenbury bookplate on front paste-down, the Camberley stamp (cancelled) together with several date stamps on half-title, and 'not to be retained' label on front board. Published in the official series 'History of the Great War', based on official documents by direction of the historical section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. This first (of two) volumes covers the commands of Maxwell and Murray, and deals with the defence of Suez, the advance across Sinai into Southern Palestine and First and Second Gaza. It also includes the campaign against the Senussi, minor operations in the Sudan and against the Sultan of Darfur, and the outbreak of the Arab Revolt (aided by Lawrence). Co-compiler Cyril Falls is the author of the standard WWI bibliography 'War Books' (1930). The separate portfolio of maps is not present with this copy. Scarce in this original edition. Enser, p.250; Falls, p.53.
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MARGOLIOUTH D.S.
Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus. Three Chief Cities of the Egyptian Sultans. With Illustrations in Colour by W S S Tyrwhitt and Additional Plates by Reginald Barratt.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 57 fine coloured plates and 4 illustrations in the text; original decorative green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt back, gilt top, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, clean copy.
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NICOL T.
The Croall Lecture for 1898. Recent Archaeology and the Bible.
8vo., First Edition, neat signature on front free endpaper verso; original navy cloth, gilt back, uncut, blue endpapers, lower hinge starting (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear.
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PETRIE Flinders
Egyptian Architecture. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 34 plates containing 155 photographs, illustrations, plans and diagrams; original terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, upper board very lightly age-marked, backstrip lightly frayed (without material loss) at head and tail, two corners mildly bruised else a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate removed from front paste-down, small stamp on front free endpaper, and single neat annotation on title. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WORSFOLD W.B.
The Redemption of Egypt.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 3 coloured plates (original tissue guards present), and numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth, upper board lettered in gilt enclosing illustration mounted in gilt frame, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Very scarce in anything like this condition.
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WARD C.H.D.
History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T.F.) 1914-1918.
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, divisional sign on title, 29 plates on 17, 5 maps in the text and 4 large folding maps on japon, neat signature (member of the Middlesex Regiment) on front free endpaper, some mild spotting (mainly marginal and fore-edges); original divisional pebble-grained cloth, divisional insignia blocked in gilt and blind on upper board, gilt back, patterned endpapers, backstrip frayed at head and tail, covers unevenly sunned (rather more so at backstrip) else a very good, firm copy. Includes OOB, embarkation, postings of battalions, corps and divisional orders, the five battalions in France and roll of officers commanding. The division served at Gallipoli and under Allenby in Egypt, Palestine and Sinai. Five battalions served in France. SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION. Enser, p.61.
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BEADNELL H.J.L.
An Egyptian Oasis. An Account of the Oasis of Kharga in the Libyan Desert, with special Reference to its History, Physical Geography and Water-Supply. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 34 plates on 27, a full-page map, full-page diagram, full-page map in the text and a large folding map; handsomely bound in dark blue full morocco, back gilt with raised bands, gilt top, uncut, gilt from original board and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sold from an institution with its small, neat blind stamp on title. The author served with the Geological Survey of Egypt. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
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BLUNT Wilfrid Scawen
My Diaries. Being a Personal Narrative of Events 1888-1914. With a Foreword by Lady Gregory. [First Single-Volume Edition].
8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present); original red ribbed cloth, gilt back, red top, backstrip lightly chafed at head and tail, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and neat press marks on front free endpaper. With the errata leaf at end. First published in two volumes in 1919 and 1920.
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CHARLES-ROUX F.
Bonaparte: Governor of Egypt. Translated from the French by E. . Dickes. [First English Edition].
8vo., First English Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, 23 plates on 15 and front and rear endpapers maps on yellow stock; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in black, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter wanting lower half of front panel. First published in Paris in the previous year. Scarce. Sandler 713.
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HARTLEY J.
6th Battalion The Manchester Regiment in the Great War.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates; original cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. This fine territorial unit went to Egypt in September 1914 and saw action at Gallipoli from May until the evacuation. It returned to Egypt in the spring of 1917 before transferring to France where it remained until the Armistice.
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MORTON H. V.
In the Steps of Jesus. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 12 sepia-toned plates on 8 and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, upper board very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. Abridged version written for children of 'In the Steps of the Master' (1934). Fields & Devenish 37.
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WILKINSON A.
Ancient Egyptian Jewellery.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 54 monochrome plates and numerous illustrations in the text; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Published in the series 'Handbooks of Archaeology', this is the first major survey of Egyptian jewellery, ranging from the predynastic period to the end of the XXVIth Dynasty (525 BC). Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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MARGOLIOUTH D.S.
Cairo, Jerusalem & Damascus. Three Chief Cities of the Egyptian Sultans. [Illustrated by W.S.S. Tyrwhitt and R. Barratt]. NEAR FINE COPY, NEATLY REBACKED
8vo., First Edition, with a mounted coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), title in blue and black, 57 fine coloured plates and 4 line illustrations in the text; original green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt with coloured illustration mounted in centre frame, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a near fine copy. With the separately printed addendum slip facing text.
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GADSBY John
Mount Sinai and the Holy Land in 1864. IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING
8vo., First Edition, with 4 engraved illustrations (2 full-page) and a full-page engraved map in the text; neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original brown cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, upper board lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, upper joint very lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Vividly-written personal account of the author's journey from Marseilles through Palestine and Egypt in 1864. A MOST DESIRABLE COPY, IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL AND FRAGILE BINDING, OF A WORK FAR SCARCER THAN ITS PREDECESSOR 'MY WANDERINGS'. RARE.
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LANE E.W.
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians written in Egypt during the Years 1833-1835. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrated title, printed title in red and black, and 92 engravings (26 full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, chocolate endpapers, uncut, original gilt from backstrip preserved and mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With small blind stamp on printed title and small stamp on half-title and last leaf of index. A lovely copy.
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KING L.W.
Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Containing One Hundred Plates and Illustrations. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard captioned in red present), and numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original red buckram, bevelled boards, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, backstrip very lightly sunned else a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. ROBERT SINKER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Robert Sinker (1838-1913) was famously Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge and Chaplain of Trinity College Chapel. He compiled several bibliographical works, including a scholarly account of the College library and the standard Catalogue of its Fifteenth-Century Printed Books, and was active also as a biblical scholar, publishing a number of textual studies resulting from the progressive archaeology of the Holy Land. A SPLENDID AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY.
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STRATHERN P.
Napoleon in Egypt. The Greatest Glory. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BAIKIE J.
Egyptian Antiquities in the Nile Valley.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates, plans in the text and a map; original red cloth, gilt back, lower board lightly mottled at fore-edge else a very good, bright, clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION
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BRITISH MUSEUM
A Guide to the Egyptian Galleries (Sculpture). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates and 46 photographs and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original printed boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE
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HENDERSON K.D.D.
Survey of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1898-1944. With an Introductory Historical Notes by E. . Corbyn. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 16 and a full-page map; green cloth, upper board lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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WEIGALL A.E.P.
The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plate and 23 plates in monochrome, moderate to heavy foxing throughout; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, firm copy.
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BYFORD-JONES W.
Forbidden Frontiers. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, half-title, title and Contents lightly spotted, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, fore-edges lightly spoted else a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Early and well-written account of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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BUNGAY S.
Alamein. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates on 16, 3 full-page maps and a full-page table in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in the sixtieth anniversary year of the battle, this is the most comprehensive and detailed single-volume history to date, with a very good selection of photographs (a number of which were censored at the time). Includes details of the war correspondents (six of whom died during the campaign) who did so much to publicise 'the end of the beginning'. A valuable complement to Pitt.
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MAGNUS Philip
Kitchener. Portrait of an Imperialist. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with plates; red cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in dustwrapper the latter lightly rubbed at extremities.
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TANGYE Richard
Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America and Egypt. With Illustrations by E.C. Mountfort. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly spotted; original pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, fore-edges very lightly spotted else a remarkably bright, clean copy of a very scarce work.
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FRASER G.S.
A Stranger and Afraid. The Autobiography of an Intellectual. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ALDRIDGE James
The Last Exile. A Novel. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; red tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned and neatly reinforced at backstrip. Wide-ranging novel set in Egypt during the Suez crisis.
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DALRYMPLE William
From the Holy Mountain. A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium. THE AUTHOR'S THIRD BOOK
8vo., First Edition, with plates and coloured endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the author's third book. SCARCE.
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SCHIFF Stacy
Cleopatra. Introduced by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 24 pages of coloured plates and 2 maps; sand cloth, covers blocked and lettered in red, blue and black, a near fine copy in publisher's slip-case. Published to commemorate the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.
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DAVIDSON David
A Connected History of Early Egypt, Babylonia and Central Asia. An Original Co-Ordination of the Evidences by modern Methods of Graphical Analysis and Narrative Sequence. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH A.L.s
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with large foldin map as frontispiece, 30 large folding charts and numerous tables in the text; black cloth, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A T.L. on author's business stationery to the named recipient, ANNOTATED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, is loosely inserted. PROBABLY A UNIQUE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE WORK.
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MAURICE Colonel F.J.
Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt. Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the War Oiffice. [Facsimile reissue] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With small personal book-pabel on front free endpaper. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1887.
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