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Two volumes bound in one. Royal quarto. Pp. 48, plus 40 plates including some large and folding, and with 82 text figures; 41, plus 23 plates. Most of the photographic plates with multiple images to each. Hardcover, bound in handsome brown artificial calf, gilt lettering-piece to spine. In mint condition. A splendid copy. ~ First edition. Maurice Ferdinand Alliot (1903-1960). [Provenance:] Presentation copy, signed and dedicated by the author to Egyptologist Louis Speleers (1882-1966). Later in the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011) from where it comes now. Beinlich-Seeber 1779.
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.
1886Royal octavo. Pp. 34. Hardcover, bound with a suite of blanks at end in full pebbled cloth, gilt spine, title-page brittle, edge chipped, leaves browned due to paper quality. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. All published. (Erstes Fragment, Mehr nicht erschienens. Dem Wiener Orientalistencongreß gewidmet.) "Der Pharao legte Joseph den Namen Zophnat-Paneach bei und gab ihm Asnat, die Tochter Poti-Pheras, des Priesters von On, zur Frau. Dann bereiste Joseph Ägypten." (Gen. 41. 45). Paulus Stephanus (born Selig) Cassel (1821-1892), a German Jewish convert to Christianity, theologian. journalist, author. He was librarian at the Royal Erfurt Library, member to the Prussian Landtag, researcher at the Christuskirche in Berlin, missionary for the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews. His publications include an account of Jewish history based on non-Jewish sources, and studies of the Bible. On his work and life, see in length Singer & Grossman: "Cassel, Paulus Stephanus (Selig)", Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906. Provenance: The British Museum, Dept. of Antiquities, with minute old stamp to title-page. Of utmost rarity. Only 5 institutional holdings worldwide, one (Hebrew Union College) comprising of an incomplete copy. Not in any bibliography we were able to consult.
Two volumes. Thick crown quarto. Pp. xx, 1009, including a suite of maps bound at end; 450 plates, often with multiple images to each, plus 10 large folding plates loosely inserted at end. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher's mint full cloth, gilt lettering to covers and spine. In fine condition. Near fine exteriors, crisp interiors. Excellent set. ~ First edition. [Provenance:] From the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011). [ADDED:] In 1998, De Meulenaere published in "Bibliotheca Orientalis" a review of this work. An offprint of this review is herewith enclosed.
1958Quarto. Pp. xiii, 109. Plus 125 plates, some printed in colour, bound at end. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's quarter black cloth and over printed boards, red lettering embossed on spine. In mint condition. A superb copy, practically unused. ~ First edition. Volume III. ~ Provenance: from the private library of Bruce Bryan, Los Angeles Natural History Museum's first Staff Archaeologist.
1954Quarto. Pp. xi, (i), 170, (2), plus 66 plates. With 232 illustrations to text. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's quarter black cloth and over printed boards, red lettering embossed on spine. In mint condition. A superb copy, practically new. ~ First edition. Volume II.
1935Two volumes. Folio. I. Text: Pp. xlvii, 248, plus one plan; II. Plates: 36 plates, some folding, one partly coloured by hand. Original printed wrappers, those of text volume worn and detached. In fine internal condition, text volume practically unused, still entirely unopened. ~ First edition. Rare complete set. Mémoires de l'Institut français d'Archéologie orientale du Caire, 57. Comprising of the 1st and 4th parts of "Le tombeau d'Amonmos" which consist of the entire published work, the other parts were never published. Georges Foucart (1865-1943) Director of IFAO, 1915-28. "Tombes Thébaines" is considered among his principal works. Beinlich-Seeber 8054.
Three volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. li, 65, plus 134 plates and 2 folding maps. With 4 figures; ix, 107, plus 211 plates and one folding map. With 11 figures; xii, 53, plus 28 plates and 2 folding maps. Different colour frontispiece to each volume. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher's full cloth. In fine condition. ~ First edition. Complete set. Rare interleaved copies. Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, 48.
1915Quarto. Pp. 157. Plus a suite of 74 plates with a total of 818 illustrations. Additional plate with vignette on verso bound at end. Illustrated head- and tail-pieces. Title-page printed in red and black. Original printed stiff wrappers printed in red and black, vignettes to both sides and to spine; old institutional stamp to title, shelf label under clear plastic on spine, spine slightly frayed with clear tape repair at top. In a very good condition. ~ Second, substantially enlarged edition. Rare. Beinlich-Seeber 10694. The first edition, published in 1913, comprised of 138 pages of text and of 700 illustrations only. Carl Maria Kaufmann, (1872 -1951), German clergy, archaeologist and writer. Kaufmann donated approximately 1,200 terracotta objects from Abu Mina and the Fayum to what is now the Liebieghaus. About 100 items from this donation were transferred in 1927 to the Museum für Byzantinische Kunst. His "Graeco-ägyptische Koroplastik" remains in many respects the standard work on the subject.
Seven volumes bound in one. Crown quarto. Pp. 65. Plus 4 folding plates printed in blue & black. Appendices. Addendum slip tipped-in; 8; 11; 45, plus 4 plates, one as frontispiece; 65, plus 8 plates including handsome folding map printed in colour and a plan; 61, plus 8 plates including a map printed in colour; 29, plus one plate. Hardcover, bound in blue full cloth, gilt lettering to spine and floral shelf label, old neat library card tipped-in to first free endpaper; corner-tips slightly bumped. In fine condition. Excellent interior, crisp plates. ~ First edition. Very rare. With handsome old bookplate of the University of Cape Town which testifies that this book was presented to the Library by Sir J. C. Beattie, in 1931.
1961Quarto. Pp. 309. Plus an extended suite of 70 plates bound at end. Full-page of figures and a folding plan to the text. Hardcover, bound in handsome burgundy full cloth, gilt mahogany lettering-piece to spine, gilt lettering direct at foot. In fine condition. Excellent, attractive copy. ~ First edition. Bibliothèque d'étude, XXXV. [Provenance:] From the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011). Some marginal pencil annotations in his neat hand and more extensive annotations in slips of paper loosely inserted. [ADDED:] In 1962, De Meulenaere published in "Orientalia" a long review of Leclant's book. The original fascicle which contained the review is herewith enclosed. A long and interesting letter from Leclant, following this review, signed and dated December 1962, is herewith enclosed. [ALSO ADDED:] In 1962, Wolfgang Helck published in "Orientalistische Literaturzeitung" his review of Leclant's book. An offprint of this review is herewith enclosed. Another letter from Leclant, addressed "Bien cher ami", signed and dated September 1961, is also added. A unique scholar's copy.
Elephant folio (54x38 cm). Title-page on a single-sheet leaf (verso blank). Plus 15 colour lithograph plates with separating tissue-guards. Original printed wrappers, separated. In fine internal condition. ~ First edition. Dawn and lithographed from the stone by T. Hooiberg. Conradus Leemans (1809-1893) was the first Egyptologist to publish a systematic catalogue of all the contents of one of the major European Egyptological collections. He began the great official gouvernment publication of the monuments and papyri in the Leiden collection in 1839, which appeared in parts from then until 1882. Several gelatin silver photographs of a sections of the actual Papyrus are included. Beinlich-Seeber 11573.
1894Elephant folio (55x38 cm). Pp. (2) title-page (verso blank), 15 (verso blank) text printed in letterpress, and 10 single-sheet coloured lithograph plates. Placed in the original hardcover portfolio, illustrated boards, cloth spine. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First edition. Drawn, and lithographed from the stone by J. Bijtel. Willem Pleyte (1836-1903), conservator of the Egyptian collections at Leiden, later director of the Museum. Conradus Leemans (1809-1893) was the first Egyptologist to publish a systematic catalogue of all the contents of one of the major European Egyptological collections. He began the great official gouvernment publication of the monuments and papyri in the Leiden collection in 1839, which appeared in parts from then until 1882. A gelatin silver photograph of a section of the actual Papyrus is included. It comes from the collection of Egyptologist Prof. Heerma van Voss (1923-2015) with his ink stamp on verso. Some other professionally made reproductions of sections of the actual Papyrus are also loosely inserted. Beinlich-Seeber 16020.
1908Royal quarto. Pp. vii, 80. Plus 59 (of 60) fine collotype plates. Hardcover, bound in contemporary plain half cloth and boards, spine worn and frayed, bookblock shows separation in some gutters; first page browned, two old signatures to first free endpaper, one of which is erased. A very good study copy, the wonderful plates in a very good condition. ~ First edition. This tome was bound without the outermost leaves i.e. title-page, frontispiece, last plate. These are provided in fine digital scans as replacement. James Edward Quibell (1867-1935). One of his major and rarest works. Beinlich-Seeber 16299.
1946Crown quarto. Pp. 292. Plus 75 hieroglyphic plates bound at end. Original printed wrappers. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. [Provenance:] From the library of renowned Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Joris Frans Borghouts (1939-2018) with his ownership signature in pencil as well as with some annotations, few in pen, allowing a rare insight into the thought process of this great scholar.
1990Royal quarto 32x24 cm. Pp. 354. With a catalogue of plates of over 250 items with each item photographed from several positions. With 19 numbered text figures and 35 unnumbered small illustrations. Original Corrigendum slip loosely inserted. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth with dust-jacket which is edge frayed and bit finger soiled. Book is in fine condition save a minor crease in lower corner of pages. ~ First edition. [Provenance:] From the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011).
1917Quarto. Pp. 110. Plus 29 plates, 28 of which are collotype plates printed on 15 sheets, and one is a tipped-in colour plate, all loose as issued. Text volume bound in the original printed wrappers, bit worn and chipped at spine. Placed together in the original printed portfolio, bit rubbed and soiled in places, neat mending for a short tear along spine. In good condition. ~ First edition. Louis Speleers (1882-1966). Among his most important works. Beinlich-Seeber 18958.
1893London, Longmans and Co., 1893-1917. (Reprint Milano 1973). Folio. 5 orig. full fabrikoid, gilt.
ref. 18329Edited by Roy L. Moodie. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1921 ; in-8, cartonnage d’éditeur de percaline vert foncé, titre doré au dos, XX, 372 pp., photographie assis en frontispice et 71 planches hors-texte dont 8 en couleurs.
1971Crown quarto. Pp. xiv, 248. Plus 34 plates, comprising of 17 double-page transcriptions and 17 reproductions of the original texts. With summaries in English and Dutch. Extended Glossary. Hardcover, bound in handsome dark-brown full-cloth with black morocco lettering-piece in gilt to spine. In fine condition. ~ First edition. Prof. Joris Frans Borghouts (1939-2018). His original Doctoral Dissertation as presented to the University of Leiden. It includes a copy of rare original 21-point Thesis Statement. Borghouts' dissertation appeared later as part of the publication Oudheidkundige Mededelingen, Rijksmuseum Van Oudheden, Leiden. [ADDED:] The extremely rare extended Errata & Corrigenda which takes over both sides of a leaf. It was privately compiled at a later date, typed and stenciled in a limited number of copies and today is practically extinct, distributed among few scholars. Loosely inserted. [Provenance:] From the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011).
Four volumes. Crown quarto. Pp. xii, 404; 410; 404; iii, 419. Addenda, index. Hardcover, uniformly bound in contemporary quarter black calf and marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt labels, each volume dated in gilt at foot of spine and with paper shelf label, marbled endpapers, triple-colour ribbon markers; some wear at head of a spine. A very good set in fine internal condition. Excellent interiors, rather bright and crisp. ~ First edition. Beinlich-Seeber 3580. [Note: we offer also: Lenormant, François: "Essai sur le classement des monnaies d'argent des Lagides" (Blois, Lecesne, 1855)].
1821Quarto. 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).
1971Quarto. Pp. 353. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's boards, spine reinforced with clear tape, corner-tips trifle chafed. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. From the library of Papyrologist Prof. Dr. Klaas Worp with his small signature to first free endpaper. Tipped-in onto this page is a typed list which Worp has composed, comprising of ca. 40 entries of personal names from papyri C.P.J. and U.P.Z. which are not included in Foraboschi's "Onomasticon". [ADDED:] Rare unpublished list of 121 entries, "Nomina Delenda", originally stenciled, loosely inserted. It has been compiled and produced by Arabist and Papyrologist Prof. Petra Sijpesteijn with direct references to Preisigke's "Namenbuch". As Sijpesteijn notes, the list has been issued for the use of her colleagues and includes the corrections she made in the course of time in her Namenbuch and Onomasticon. Of utmost usefulness for the use of the present book.
1998Quarto. Pp. lxx, 315. Plus a suite of 38 plates bound at end. Original illustrated stiff wrappers, a corner bit creased. In fine condition. ~ First edition.
Two volumes. I. Text Volume: Royal quarto. Pp. xxvii, 465. Original stiff wrappers. In fine condition, still entirely unopened. II. Plate volume: Imperial folio. Contains 24 single-sheet plates, unfolded, placed in the original quarter cloth portfolio. In fine condition. Excellent set. ~ First edition.
