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1802Best.-Nr. 60653London: W. Bulmer & Co. for G. & W. Nicol 1802. First U.K. Edition. First printing. Quarto 27cm. Contemporary sprinkled calf gold roll around outer perimeter of boards board edges tooled in blind titled in gilt on red leather spine label; plain endpapers; ivxxvi1951pp with postscript leaf paginated "188" inserted after p.188; 3 maps 2 folding with routes traced in color compiled by J. Rennell and engraved by J. Walker. Bookplate of John Bacon Lawrey Morritt Rokeby Park. Sound and clean mild rubbing to board edges spine leather dry and cracking internally with a few scatted spots of foxing one folding map with small tear at center fold but otherwise Very Good. Collated and complete. First English translation of Hornemann's travels previously published in German Weimar 1801. Hornemann a student at Göttingen was "engaged by the African Association in London with instructions to reach the River Niger by crossing the Sahara from Egypt." When Napoleon's army took Cairo Hornemann managed to gain Napoleon's patronage for his journey. He joined a caravan heading toward Marzuq and visited several oases before turning north to Tripoli. There he "sent despatches back to London" then joined a caravan heading south and disappeared. Later information suggested that he had successfully crossed the Sahara but died of dysentery just north of the Niger. HOWGEGO I H100. W. Bulmer & Co. for G. & W. Nicol unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 208311927. Photo album documenting a multi country group यातà¥à¤°à¤¾ in 1927 records interwar travel across southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean including regions under colonial administration and recent political transition. The album follows a group of travelers moving from France through Italy Greece Turkey British administered Palestine and Egypt capturing urban landmarks archaeological sites and local populations encountered along the route. The sequence provides visual evidence of tourism infrastructure mobility and cross cultural observation during a period when former imperial territories such as Constantinople were undergoing redefinition following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of modern nation states. Album contains 93 black and white silver gelatin photographs and four real photo postcards with images ranging approximately from 2.5 x 4 inches to 3.5 x 5.5 inches and one larger group photograph measuring about 9 x 7 inches. Photographs are mounted on black paper boards with handwritten captions in white pencil and interleaved tissue guards; string bound in patterned cloth boards. The album opens in Avignon with views of St. Pierre's Church and the Palais des Papes then continues through Italy with scenes of Naples and Pompeii as well as shipboard images captioned S.S. Adriatic. Subsequent sections include Athens with views of the Parthenon followed by Constantinople where four postcards depict the harbor the Sultan Ahmed Mosque and the Hagia Sophia shortly after the end of the Ottoman Empire. In British Mandate Palestine images show street scenes in Nazareth and Jerusalem including sites along the River Jordan the Western Wall and the Garden of Gethsemane alongside a captioned portrait labeled "A Jewish Maiden." The album concludes in Egypt with extensive views of archaeological and urban sites at Thebes Memphis Cairo and Luxor including the Obelisk of Hatshepsut Edfu Temple the tomb of Amenhotep II the Colossi of Memnon and the pyramids and Great Sphinx at Giza where the final group portrait shows the travelers posed on camels. Produced during the interwar period the album reflects expanding international tourism networks alongside ongoing European influence in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. The juxtaposition of ancient sites modern transport and local populations situates the material within broader histories of archaeology empire and travel culture in the early twentieth century. Light general wear to album and mounts; images well preserved with clear captions; overall very good condition. unknown books
1900Best.-Nr. 180921900. Archive of 9 stereoview photographs bearing a double 6" x 3" inch photograph showing various scenes from turn of the century Egypt. 1896-1900. Images include the Temple of Luxor village women carrying pitchers of water on their heads a caravan at the Tomb of the Khalif's the Virgin's tree and the Great Nile Bridge. Locations are marked beneath the images in text. 5 include identifying information in multiple language on verso. Most are marked "J.F.Jarvis Publisher Washington D.C" in cursive script with small black "x" mark in corner and "Sold only by Underwood & Underwood New York London Toronto Canada Ottawa Kansas." Images are clear and detailed. Most in very good condition. unknown books
1885Best.-Nr. 139691885. Beato Antonio. Two photographs of a Ramesses statue and monumental Egyptian architecture circa 1880s document the archaeological landscape of Upper Egypt during the expansion of commercial photography and European travel along the Nile. The images preserve the scale surface condition and immediate surroundings of ancient remains as they appeared before many subsequent excavation conservation and tourism projects altered their presentation. Their attribution to Beato connects them to a photographer who maintained a long career in Luxor and produced albumen views of Egyptian monuments for an international market supporting research into the visual reception of ancient Egypt archaeological tourism nineteenth-century photographic commerce and the documentation of historic sites. Museum collections date comparable Beato photographs of Luxor and Egyptian monuments to the 1870s and later nineteenth century. Two albumen photographs circa 1880s each measuring approximately 8½ × 10 inches and mounted recto and verso on a single 10 × 10 inch board. One photograph shows a monumental statue identified as Ramesses and bears the ink signature "A. Beato" on the image. The second presents a large Egyptian monument from a different viewpoint and appears to carry the signature "A. Beato" within the negative. The absence of more specific captions prevents a secure identification of the second structure from the available description. The paired mounting brings together two examples of Beato's emphasis on isolated architectural remains and monumental scale using the albumen process to render carved stone structural mass and the surrounding archaeological terrain with clarity. Antonio Beato worked extensively in Egypt and became particularly associated with photographic views of Luxor Karnak and nearby ancient sites; surviving institutional holdings include his photographs of Luxor Temple Karnak and the Ramesseum. Earlier scholarship sometimes confused Antonio with his brother Felice because photographs circulated under overlapping forms of the Beato name but the Egyptian subjects and "A. Beato" signatures here support attribution to Antonio whose career centered on Egypt. The mount has cockling and a bent upper corner not affecting either image; both photographs have scattered surface scratches. Photographs good mount fair. The recto-and-verso presentation offers two complementary records of ancient Egyptian monuments as they were encountered and marketed through late nineteenth-century Nile photography. unknown books
1896Best.-Nr. 144071896. Underwood & Underwood. Seven stereoviews of Egypt circa 1896 to 1904 record Egyptian people animals commerce Nile water gathering and ancient monuments within the American publisher's extensive photographic survey of the country. The group ranges from women drawing water from the Nile and a crowded market to the obelisk at Heliopolis and statues of Ramesses II pairing contemporary Egyptian life with the Pharaonic sites that figured prominently in Western photographic representations of Egypt. Underwood & Underwood's larger Egypt through the Stereoscope series comprised approximately 100 views produced principally between 1896 and 1904 intended to create a sequential three-dimensional photographic tour of the country. Seven original Underwood & Underwood stereoview photographs Egypt circa 1896 to 1904. Each card bears descriptive text on the verso. The subjects comprise: 1 the obelisk at Heliopolis; 2 a group of Egyptian women drawing water from the Nile; 3 an Egyptian drummer mounted on a camel with palm trees behind him; 4 a mother camel and recently born calf with the pyramids of Giza visible in the background; 5 villagers seated outside a tent captioned by the publisher "Wretchedness of the People"; 6 a large crowd gathered at a local market; and 7 statues of Ramesses II surrounded by palm trees. The views move between archaeological monuments and scenes of work transportation trade domestic life and the Nile while the stereoscopic format was designed to give viewers an illusion of spatial depth when seen through a stereoscope. Underwood & Underwood marketed stereoscopic tours as a means for audiences abroad to encounter distant countries through paired photographs and accompanying explanatory text. Institutional holdings confirm that its Egypt through the Stereoscope photographs date principally from 1896 to 1904 and encompass monuments landscapes city views people and animals. The publisher's caption "Wretchedness of the People" is particularly revealing as historical evidence of the interpretive framework imposed upon Egyptian subjects for Western consumers: rather than a neutral identification of the people pictured the wording directs the viewer toward a judgment about their material circumstances. The seven cards therefore preserve both photographic evidence of Egypt around the turn of the twentieth century and the captions through which Underwood & Underwood presented the country to its international audience. Each photograph retains descriptive text on the verso; all are in very good condition. unknown books
1885Best.-Nr. 140491885. Zangaki Adelphoi. Interior of the hypostyle hall at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera circa 1880s records one of Upper Egypt's major surviving temple interiors during the period when commercial photographers produced extensive visual records of Egyptian antiquities for an international audience. The Zangaki studio active in Egypt during the later nineteenth century specialized in views of archaeological sites cities landscapes and life along the Nile. This image preserves the appearance of Dendera's monumental columned interior during the same decade in which British occupation of Egypt began in 1882 and European archaeological and photographic activity in the country continued to expand. Albumen photograph circa 1880s measuring 11 x 8 inches. The view looks through the hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor where massive columns rise to capitals carved with the face of Hathor. Sunlight striking the columns and upper masonry emphasizes their scale while the central perspective terminates in a small doorway opening onto a darker interior containing visible rubble. The contrast between the monumental columns and the human scale of the distant doorway gives the photograph a particularly clear record of the hall's architecture and spatial arrangement. Dendera was among the Egyptian sites repeatedly photographed by commercial studios during the nineteenth century when photographs of temples and ancient monuments circulated through the developing European and American market for archaeological and travel imagery. The period also coincided with increasing European political and financial intervention in Egypt and after 1882 British military occupation; these developments formed part of the larger colonial setting in which antiquities excavated objects and photographic records circulated abroad. Small tear near the top margin; otherwise exceptionally well preserved with the architectural details and tonal contrasts remaining clear. Overall near fine condition. unknown books
1898Best.-Nr. 3180331898. 25 album card leaves with 117 mounted photographs with captions in pencil below. 12 x 16-1/2 inches. Contemporary half black morocco over pebbled cloth. Extremities worn occasional foxing and thumbsoiling slight curvature to album leaves occasional toning or fading to photographs. 25 album card leaves with 117 mounted photographs with captions in pencil below. 12 x 16-1/2 inches. Anonymous album containing numerous photographs of scenery people and sport primarily in India Kashmir and surrounding area Zoji La is a high mountain pass in the Himalayas in the Indian union territory of Ladakh The Sind Valley 4 are large 11-1/2 x 9 inch plates. but with a small Egypt section at the end. Photos of campsites horses military troops picnics and gatherings cultural sights etc. many with penciled-in captions at dated 1891 in some. With at least 4 phortos of polo at Alexandria. unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. TK0363Probably ca. 1890s. i.e. certainly before 1905. 1890. Folio. 14 x 15.5 inches. 48 original mounted professional photographs each a full-page image. Modern half red morocco cloth. A piece of the original cloth cover with the title in German as shown is mounted within the volume. Fine. 48 fine vintage photographs 23 of which are signed by the photograph 19 by the Zangaki Brothers; 4 by Antoine Beoto. The images are taken in the southern Egyptian Luxor region including images of the Valley of the Kings at Luxor temple the Nile Karnak temple and Thebes. / The first photograph shows the Sphynx and in front are a couple presumedly a husband & wife perhaps German or Swiss-German obviously tourists. This is their memory album of a visit to Luxor in southern Egypt the place of the Valley of the Kings. The photographs some of which are titled are chiefly titled in French. Even though 23 of the photographs are signed it is clear that the whole album is made up of images from these two photographers meaning that 47 of the images should be either by the Zangaki Brothers or Antoine Beoto's studio. The only unique image should be the first one showing the two travelers and their guides. Probably ca. 1890s. [i.e., certainly before 1905]. hardcover books
1919Best.-Nr. 90393London: Printed by St. Clements Press Ltd 1919. Paperback. Very Good. 23p. Softcover in original wrpper. 22 cm. [Printed by] St. Clements Press, Ltd paperback books
1935Best.-Nr. 90360London: Printed by J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd 1935. Paperback. Very Good. 35 10p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Minor cover spotting. Printed by J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd paperback books
1973Best.-Nr. 89599Le Caire: Organisme General des Imprimies Gouvernmentales 1973. Paperback. Very Good. photos maps and plans some folding 190p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Wrapper splitting at bottom of front fold. Articles in French English or German. Organisme General des Imprimies Gouvernmentales paperback books
1988Best.-Nr. 89734Le Caire: Organisme Genereal des Imprimeries Gouvernmentales 1988. Paperback. Very Good. photos illustrations and diagrams 3 folding 224p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Bookplate American Jounal of Archaeology. French text. Organisme Genereal des Imprimeries Gouvernmentales paperback books
1987Best.-Nr. 89713Le Caire: Organisme General des Imprimeries Gouvernementales 1987. Paperback. Very Good. photos maps some folding 266p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. French text. Organisme General des Imprimeries Gouvernementales paperback books
1983Best.-Nr. 89878Le Caire: Le Service 1983. Paperback. Very Good. photos illustrations 383p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Upper right corner of last several pages bent. Articles in French English German or Italian. Le Service paperback books
1985Best.-Nr. 89819Le Caire: Le Service 1985. Paperback. Very Good. phtots illustrations maps x 448 21p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Individual Articles documents studies etc. in French English or German. At head of title: Publicationa de l'Organisation des Antiquities Egyptiennes. Le Service paperback books
1959Best.-Nr. 89883Le Caire: Service Antiquities de l'Egypte 1959. Paperback. Very Good. photos illustrations irregular pagination. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. French text. Minor cover soil. Tear reglued at bottom of backstrip. Service Antiquities de l'Egypte paperback books
1987Best.-Nr. 89879Le Caire: Le Service 1987. Paperback. Very Good. photos illustrations xiv 264p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. French text. Le Service paperback books
1925Best.-Nr. 90130London: Issued at the Edwards Library University College 1925. Paperback. Very Good. 12 3p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20cm. Issued at the Edwards Library, University College paperback books
1912Best.-Nr. 90121Le Caire: Imprimerie Nationale 1912. Paperback. Fair. xliv 342p. Softcover lacking almost all of original wrapper. 29cm. Minor chipping. Unopened. French text. Seven more volumes were issued over the next several years bringing the history up to 1916. Imprimerie Nationale paperback books
1886Best.-Nr. 83474Le Caire 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. First item: 114p. Second item: 166p. Later quarter cloth with both wrappers bound in. 24 cm. Former owner's name. French text. hardcover books
1883Best.-Nr. 83522Le Caire: Barbier 1883. Hardcover. Good. 566p. Contemporary quarterbinding. 17 cm. Moderate cover scuffing and wear. Inked note in French on endpaper. Hinges repaired. French text. Barbier hardcover books
1946Best.-Nr. 1837Cairo: Government Press 1946. Paperback. Fair. 205p. Softcover. Lacks cover. 29 cm. Foxing and wear. Text in Arabic and English. Government Press paperback books
1932Best.-Nr. 2638Cairo: Government Press 1932. Hardcover. Good. 6 vols. bound in 4. folding map inside back pocket. 28 cm. Some cover soil. Ex. lib. Six individual annual reports covering 1928-1933. The first three reports are in English and the last three in French titled "Rapport sur les Pecheries d'Égypte". Government Press hardcover books
1937Best.-Nr. M12881Cairo:: Imprimerie Nationale Boulac 1937. 1937. At head of title: XV Concilium Ophthalmologicum 1937 Egypte. 248 x 166 mm. 8vo. Entire volume: ii 283 1 pp. 17 plates 42 figs. 83 plates 95 figs. bibliog.; EXTENSIVE UNDERLINING AND MARGINALIA pencil & inks on the Wagner-Keith paper otherwise clean. Modern quarter brown cloth with overstitching patterned paper over boards gilt spine original printed wrappers bound in. Ms. notation on original top cover. Bookplate of Jerry F. Donin. Very good binding good internally considering the notes. VERY RARE. Three ophthalmological papers from the XV Concilium Ophthalmologicum 1937 held in Egypt. The lead paper is by Wagner & Keith. The second contribution is by the noted French ophthalmologist Paul Alfred Marie Bailliart. The third paper is contributed by Yoshizo Koyanagi of Japan writing her in German on changes to the retina caused by high blood pressure with 83 plates showing the pathology. / This paper pre-dates the Garrison and Morton paper of the same topic & title published in the journal Medicine vol. 18 pp. 317-430 1939. "Wagner and Keith classified essential hypertension and lesions of the fundus into four groups." – Garrison and Morton 2723 and 2922. / Henry Wagener wrote mostly on ocular changes in hypertension. Together with Keith he set up a classification of retinal hypertensive changes that was popular." – Gorin History of ophthalmology p. 336. / This volume includes: Paul Alfred Marie Bailliart 1877-1969 "L'hypertension arterielle retinienne" Bailliart gained an international reputation for his work on the retinal circulation the ophthalmological manuals he co-authored and his development of Bailliart's ophthalmodynamometer Bailliart's goniometer and Bailliart's tonometer. ALSO: Yoshizo Koyanagi 1880-1954 "Veranderungen an der Netzhaut bei Hochdruck. Pathologische Anatomie." Yoshizo Koyanagi was a Japanese ophthalmologist who is recognized for his description of what is now known as Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease VKH. PROVENANCE: Jerry F. Donin was a distinguished ophthalmologist and medical book collector formerly of Claremont California. Imprimerie Nationale Boulac, 1937. hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. 6418New York: American Research Center in Egypt 1989. Very Good. 28 cm; 262 pages. Printed wraps. American Research Center in Egypt paperback books