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1999ref. 137177Oxford: Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oxford Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1999. Quarto three volumes lii 482; lxii 483-1181; and viii 136 pages. Cloth; small name-stamp on each front free endpaper; a fine set with the fine dustwrappers. 'The first seven volumes of the "Topographical Bibliography" list ancient Egyptian monuments still in situ those found in controlled excavations or those for which the original location can be established with certainty. There is however a very large number of objects the provenance of which is not known and it includes some of the best-known monuments. Volume VIII contains references to statues in museums and private collections as well as to those which have passed through various sales and auctions only to disappear from sight once again' from the dustwrapper blurb. 3 items. Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum hardcover
1998ref. 137518London: 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
1926ref. 137489London: The Religious Tract Society 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Religious Tract Society 1926. Octavo xxiv 308 pages with 22 illustrations plus 17 plates. Cloth slightly rubbed and a little sunned and marked on the spine; endpapers tanned with a small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. The Religious Tract Society hardcover
1976ref. 137512New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1976. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1976. Large quarto xvi 126 pages with numerous illustrations plus 23 pages of plates. Buckram; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the sunned and slightly chipped dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is a newspaper obituary of the author 1923-2006: 'Egyptologist whose meticulous observations illuminated the study of hieroglyphic writing'. The Metropolitan Museum of Art unknown
1976ref. 137515London: Egypt Exploration Society 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Egypt Exploration Society 1976. Large quarto xii 255 pages plus 81 pages of plates and 3 folding plans. Cloth a little marked along the bottom edge of both boards; edges slightly marked; endpapers a little tanned with a small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper unevenly tanned and a little rubbed. Forty-eighth Excavation Memoir. Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
2004ref. 137509Leiden: 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
2005ref. 137213Cambridge: 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
1957ref. 137846Oxford: Printed for the Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford Printed for the Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey 1957. Large folio x 10 indices pages plus 45 plates. Original cloth with matching cloth recently overlaid on the sides; spine a little sunned and rubbed; new endpapers; a very good copy internally excellent. The plates reproduce at full scale the hieroglyphic inscriptions on 611 funerary cones. This volume was edited by M.F. Laming Macadam from material compiled by Norman de Garis Davies prior to his death in 1941. The proposed accompanying text volumes appear never to have been published. Printed for the Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey hardcover
ref. 162356Amsterdam-Antwerpen Uitgeverij Atlas. 2003. Original publisher's paper-covered boards pictorial front- and backcover 4to: Op zoek naar de schat van Toetanchamon - De mummies en hun fascinerende geheimen - Het dagelijk leven ten tijde van de farao's - Prachtige piramiden en mysterieuze sfinxen - Almachtige goden en heilige dieren - Levenskunst in het oude Egypte - Egyptische goden en gewijde feesten - Napoleon Bonaparte en de Egyptische expeditie - Magie en bezwering in het rijk der farao's - Begrafenisriten en de reis naar de andere wereld - De sublieme schat aan Egyptische tempels - Traditionele beroepen in de tijd van de farao's - De roemrijke regeerperiode van farao Ramses II - Egypte mode en manie wereldwijd - De mysterieuze wereld van de jiëroglieven. Each volume pictorial endpapers 126pp. very richly illustrated boxes references. Very fine complete set. Volume 1 - 15: In de Ban van Egypte Complete. Amsterdam-Antwerpen, Uitgeverij Atlas. 2003 hardcover
1988ref. 136868London: 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
1974ref. 136876London: The Egypt Exploration Society 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Egypt Exploration Society 1974. Large quarto two volumes xvi 98 and xii 142 pages plus 200 plates many folding many from photographs. Cloth a little scuffed and lightly indented chiefly the front cover of second volume; edges and endpapers a little tanned; overall an excellent set with a pictorial bookplate on each front pastedown. The Archaeological Survey of Egypt Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Memoirs. 2 items. The Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
1955ref. 136863Oxford: 'Printed for The Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey' 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford 'Printed for The Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey' 1955. Large quarto viii 20 pages with an illustration and a plan plus 64 pages of plates some with a transcription on the facing page. Cloth unevenly sunned slightly marked and a little rubbed and bumped at the extremities; edges a little marked; small ownership stamp on the front free endpaper; a very good copy. 'Printed for The Griffith Institute at the University Press by Charles Batey' hardcover
1937ref. 136882London: The Egypt Exploration Society 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London The Egypt Exploration Society 1937. Large quarto two volumes xiv 300 pages with numerous tables plus 4 folding tables and a tipped-in corrigendum; and xii 78 plates several folding including Plate VII: 'Colours mentioned in Chapters V and XII' a double-page card with 81 mounted colour samples. Cloth a little scuffed and flecked sunned on the spines and a little marked on the bottom edges of the boards; leading and bottom edges uncut; half-titles a little tanned; small ownership stamp on the front free endpapers; a very good set internally excellent. One of only 500 sets of the 'ordinary edition'; there were also 12 sets of 'a presentation edition . printed on hand-made paper'. 2 items. The Egypt Exploration Society hardcover
1955ref. 136889New York: Pantheon Books Inc. for the Bollingen Foundation Inc 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York Pantheon Books Inc. for the Bollingen Foundation Inc. 1955. Large quarto two volumes xviii 221 pages with 70 illustrations plus a colour frontispiece text volume; and the matching book-form box containing 30 folding plates and the List of Plates booklet. Quarter contrasting cloth; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy the text volume; and a matching ribbon-tied box slightly marked and rubbed with the hinged drop-side lid a little bowed. 'This is the third volume in a series of works on Egyptian Texts and Representations constituting Volume XL in Bollingen Series'. 2 items. Pantheon Books Inc. for the Bollingen Foundation Inc hardcover
1975ref. 136857Oxford: 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
1979ref. 136862Providence: Brown University Press 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Providence Brown University Press 1979. Large quarto x 100 pages plus 44 pages of plates some double-page. Cloth lightly bumped at the corners; small ownership stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. Translations from the French by Claude Crozier-Brelot. Brown Egyptological Studies VIII. Brown University Press hardcover
1955ref. 136947Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Cambridge Harvard University Press 1955. Large quarto xviii 110 pages with 148 figures plus 55 pages of plates from photographs. Cloth a little marked; top edge a little foxed; endpapers a little tanned and lightly foxed with a small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a very good copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little tanned foxed and torn with a little loss to silverfish to the spine. Harvard University Press hardcover
1941ref. 136992New 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
1974ref. 137100Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 1974. Small quarto 198 pages. Cloth a little tanned scuffed and rubbed; endpapers a little tanned; a very good copy. The Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies. Pictorial bookplate on the front pastedown. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
1995ref. 136925London: Egypt Exploration Society 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. London Egypt Exploration Society 1995. Quarto viii 462 pages with numerous illustrations from photographs graphs tables diagrams and maps. Laminated papered boards reproducing the original pictorial wrappers; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy. 'The Egyptian City of Tell el-Amarna was built by King Akhenaten around 1350 BC as a new capital and as the showpiece for his new cult of the life-giving powers of the sun the Aten. On his death the city was rapidly deserted after an occupation of between about fifteen to twenty years. This short-lived history makes the site immensely important for archaeological studies. In 1979 the Egypt Exploration Society resumed its programme of excavation and survey at Amarna interrupted since 1936. This is the sixth volume of reports on excavations and survey' introductory note. Contributors include A. Bomann A.D. Boyce J.A. Charles B.J. Kemp M.D.S. Mallinson I.J. Mathieson P.T. Nicholson C. Powell P.J. Rose D.J. Samuel and F.J. Weatherhead. Egypt Exploration Society paperback
1977ref. 137104London: 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
1913ref. 137107London: T. Fisher Unwin 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. London T. Fisher Unwin 1913. Quarto 223 pages plus 107 pages of plates. Three-colour decorated cloth; top edge gilt leading edge uncut; spine tanned; rear cover mottled; leading edge and initial leaves foxed with scattered light foxing; endpapers tanned; minor signs of age and use; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a good copy. Translated by Elizabeth Lee. T. Fisher Unwin hardcover
1963ref. 137064London: 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
1993ref. 137065Oxford: Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Oxford Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum 1993. Large quarto x 132 pages plus 11 plates 10 folding. Papered boards; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; a fine copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum hardcover
1982ref. 137198New Haven: Yale University Press 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New Haven Yale University Press 1982. Octavo xvi 258 pages with 50 examples of hieroglyphic script plus a frontispiece. Cloth and edges slightly marked; small name-stamp on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. Yale University Press hardcover
