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1905rif. 049551Egypt: ca. 1905 1905. Soft cover. Very Good. Original business card. 7x11 cm. Written 'Le Khedive'. Abbas Hilmi Pasha was the last Khedive Ottoman viceroy of Egypt and Sudan ruling from 8 January 1892 to 19 December 1914. In 1914 after Turkey joined the Central Powers in World War I the nationalist Khedive was removed by the British then ruling Egypt in favor of his more pro-British uncle Hussein Kamel marking the de jure end of Egypt's four-century era as a province of the Ottoman Empire which had begun in 1517. Extremely rare. See. 'Tamga pençe tugra imza' by Kologlu Orhan. p. 98. [ca. 1905] paperback
rif. 25889Undated but on Britannia paper watermarked 1805; and the San Ysidro was a prison ship at Plymouth between May 1805 and September 1814. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign 1798-1801 inspired a period of ‘Egyptomania’ culminating in Champollion’s decipherment of the Rossetta Stone. The contribution of the author of this letter to this outpouring of scholarly activity is an offer to the President of the Society of Antiquaries of London to blow up one of the pyramids in order to extract their contents. See the recipient’s entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp 8vo. Bifolium of laid Britannia paper watermarked 1805. Fifty-five lines well laid out and written in a neat and stylish hand. In fair condition somewhat grubby and warn folded into a packet. Addressed to ‘The Right Honorable the Earl of Leicester. / F.R.S. / President of the Society of Antiquaries / London.’ Signed: ‘Wm. Lydiard - / Master’s Mate of HM Prison Ship San Ysidro / Plymo’ Dock’. The text begins: ‘. excess of servility and drudgery to which they were driven even to the making of Brick and other debasing services; some writers have from thence inferred that the Pyramids being of stone is a proof that they were not founded by them no work of that kind being recorded: but is it not recorded that they built Treasure Cities’ He proceeds to discuss whether as ‘Some authors affirm’ the pyramids are ‘the Tombs of Kings’. He states that he was ‘a few days since’ ‘furnished with the official account of the capture of Alexandria’ The French garrison at Alexandria had surrendered to the British on 2 September 1801. and that ‘it immediately struck me with a desire of troubling you on this subject with the view of observing to you that if it is the intention of government to follow up their success in that quarter; whether this may not afford a good opportunity for opening one or two of these mysterious piles’ Warming to his theme he continues: ‘it surely can be done - gunpowder has a speedy effect in operations of this nature - the trouble might not be small but I certainly would not hesitate to undertake the performance of it neither can I imagine I would take any very considerable time or expense to execute it.’ After this surprising offer he goes some way to redeeming himself by stating: ‘There may be some valuable remains of antiquity deposited in those closed which may materially tend to the illustration of the ancient history manners or customs of the Egyptians’. He ends with reference to ‘sacred Scripture’ and the ‘plundering of the Temple by Shishak’. Undated, but on Britannia paper watermarked 1805; and the San Ysidro was a prison ship at Plymouth between May 1805 and Septembe unknown
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1998rif. x-0306458209Plenum Pub Corp 1998. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 883 pages. 10.50x7.25x2.25 inches. Plenum Pub Corp hardcover
rif. PC7Twenty pairs of albumen stereoview photographs each pair ca. 75x145 cm 3 x 5 ¾ in mounted on original grey yellow and orange cards. Over a dozen cards numbered in negative from “51” to “222” one with a signature in negative partly trimmed off; one photo with a printed caption in French in negative; one photo with a printed caption in English on the paper label attached to the card’s verso. Seventeen photos with period manuscript captions and/or numbers in English or French on the cards’ versos. One photo with a paper label of a 19th-century Vienna dealer C. Jos. Rospini on the card’s verso one photo with a photo dealer’s ink stamp dated “1965” on the card’s verso. Several images mildly faded or with minor stains otherwise a very good collection of strong stereoviews. Interesting collection of early stereoview photograph views of Cairo ancient Egyptian sites along the Nile and the Suez Canal under construction. Eleven views of Cairo two identical but mounted on different types of card – yellow or orange show the Citadel Tombs of the Califs and the streets of the old city. Eight views of the ancient Egyptian temples and sites show the Great Pyramids of Giza the Great Hypostyle Hall and other sites in Karnak the Colossi of Memnon Medinet Habu temple the Memnonium and the temple in Kirscheh. The latter stood next to the Dendur and Kalabsha temples in Nubia but was flooded with the waters of Lake Nasser after the construction of the Aswan High Dam. One stereoview depicts the works on the Suez Canal with a floating construction crane in the middle of the canal. unknown
1895rif. 167854Vienne : Adolphe Holzhausen 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 387 pages; Description: 387 p. : ill. plates part col. diagrs. plans ; 34 cm. Subjects: Egypt --Antiquities --Kom Ombo Egypt Vienne : Adolphe Holzhausen paperback
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rif. 9999_04277Various imprints 1873-1900. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . 16 volumes bound in one. Quarto. Bound-up volume of 16 publications with numerous articles. With plates in various techniques some folding. HARDCOVER bound in contemporary half-cloth and marbled boards spine gilt spine-ends and lower joint bit frayed. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Comprising of the following rare publications and offprints: 1-5: Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 1873. Five issues one issue incomplete. Lacks September-October. 6-7: ZÄS Juli-October 1876. Two issues. 8: ZÄS Januar-März 1877. One issue. 9: P. Hippolyte-Boussac: Tombeau d'un astrologue thébain de la XVIIIe dynastie; with translation into English as The Tomb of a Theban Astrologer of the Eighteenth Dynasty Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects ca. 1850. 10: Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes IX I-II Ca. 1875. 11: Édouard Naville: La stèle de Pithom. ZÄS XL. 12: La pierre de Palmere No author Congrès des Orientalistes de Hambourg 1902. 13: Georges Legran: Notes prises à Karnak. Tirage à part de Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes1900. 14: Le temple et les chapelles d'Osiris à Karnak. II. La Chapelle et le tombeau d'Osiris ounnofré. No imprint. 15: S. Birch: Remarks upon the Cover of the Granite Sarcophagus of Rameses III. in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge Antiquarian Society 1876. 16: Georges Legrain et Édouard Naville: L'aile nord du pylône d'Anénophis III à Karnak. Annales du Musée Guimet 1902. ~ Provenance: From the library of renowned Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Joris Frans Borghouts 1939-2018 previously at NINO with corresponding bookplate inside cover. WITH: Detailed manuscript "List of Contents" compiled on two blank preliminaries aiming to list the many dozens of articles in this collection. AND WITH: Index compiled in manuscript by another hand comprising of 4 neatly written pages with cross-references bound-in at end. With Borghouts' pencil annotations in places. Very rare scholar's copy. L-1 Various imprints, 1873-1900. hardcover
1963rif. 2118Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts. Very Good- with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Bumping to back top corner. 2 Stamps to textblock have been deleted with black marker. Text is clean of marks.; Excavated by the late George Andrew Reisner. Fold-out map of the Merloe South and Merloe West Cemeteries tucked into pocket inside back cover.; 5; 457 pages . 1963. The Museum of Fine Arts hardcover
rif. SONG0710308833Used: Good unknown
1902rif. 21105Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Usual browning and light chipping to dustjacket. Former owner's notes on front free endpaper and with a small chip. Browning to half-title page. Else a handsome and tight copy with nicely marbled edges.; With 23 maps 66 plans and 59 vignettes. Including the 1904 supplement: "The Egyptian Museum at Cairo" a 24 page pamphlet with a little bit of tanning to the covers and with a small inkstain. Both supplement and dustjacket make this copy very rare. Hinrichsen 250.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; cxcii 408 pages . 1902. Karl Baedeker hardcover
1798rif. 181876London: printed for J. Wright 1798-1800. Mixed editions as usual. The work is formed of a collection of letters written by soldiers in Napoleon's army in Egypt published by the British as a propaganda exercise. The contents include the private accounts of foot soldiers in the campaign reports from General Damas to General Kleber and Napoleon complaining about his wife to his brother. Each letter is translated with additional footnotes. Facsimiles of both Napoleon's and Nelson's handwriting can be found on the folding plate. Provenance: from the library of Clive Richards although unmarked as such. Richards owned "the finest collection of Nelson letters in private hands" according to The Telegraph. He served as vice president of the Nelson Society and was a member of the 1805 Club for 30 years. 3 vols bound in one octavo 217 x 132 mm pp. xxiv 248 4; iv xxxii 236 4; ii xx 182. Vol. 1 bound with half title. Engraved tissue-guarded folding plate and folding map tables in text; text in English and French. With 8 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary mottled quarter calf red spine label smooth spine with flat bands ruled in gilt marbled boards edges yellow. Inscribed on half-title "Chas J. Clarke April 19th 1799" verses 10-13 of Horace's Ode 1.37 inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper recto. Spine a little stripped head chipped extremities slightly rubbed tips bumped contents a little toned and foxed: a very good copy. ESTC T148911; T122998; T121981; Sandler 853. "Clive Richards City financier and owner of the finest collection of Nelson letters in private hands - obituary" The Telegraph 23 April 2021. hardcover
rif. SONG019814735XUsed: Good unknown
rif. MA82Nine original watercolours on paper from ca. 125x175 cm 5 x 6 ¾ in to ca. 65x125 cm 2 ½ x 5 in mounted within ink-drawn frames on the original white album leaves ca. 21x275 cm 8 ¼ x 11 in. All watercolours captioned and dated in period ink on the mounts. Period style dark green morocco album with a gilt tooled spine and cloth boards. Several leaves with minor stains on the lower blank right corners of the mounts not affecting the watercolours otherwise a very good collection. An attractive album of bright watercolour views drawn by a British traveller during his Nile cruise in the winter of 1892-1893. Dated between December 1892 and February 25th 1893 the watercolours show Assouan Aswan Cairo Girgeh Girga the ancient Thebes the Great Pyramids of Giza and the pyramids of Meidum and Saqqara. Overall a beautiful watercolour collection showing some of the iconic Egyptian sites through the eyes of a 19th-century British traveller. Captions: Assouan. Egypt. December 1892 two different views; The Nile near Thebes. February 13th 1893; Girgeh. Egypt. February 18th 1893; Pyramid of Medum. February 21st 1893 two different views; Cairo from the Nile. February 23rd 1893; Pyramid of Sakkarah. February 23rd 1893; Pyramids of Gizeh. Sunset. February 25th 1893. hardcover
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1847rif. 26629London: F.G. Moon and Co. 1847. From the Standard Folio First Edition limited to 500 sets only. A single original hand-coloured lithographic plate drawn on stone by Louis Haghe after David Roberts' paintings done on location in 1838. Printed on a half folio sheet 17" x 13.55" the captioned image is 14" x 10" now presented in cream mounting boards 17" x 21" glazed behind clear mylar. Beautifully hand-coloured to the highest standards of the time. An example in excellent condition clean fresh beautifully preserved. FROM One of the most desirable of all travel and COLOURplate books. AN especially pretty image the ruins beautifully rendered with colorfully dressed people scattered about them. The island of Bigge adjacent to Philae was part of the site of the tomb of Osiris. Only the priests from Philae were permited to even set foot on the island let along enter the temples. We have a good number of impressive images from the Standard Folio Edition of this classic work available for purchase. As well as many views of Egypt we also have available views of Nubia Petra Sinai the Jordan Tyre Sidon and Baalbec. Please inquire for further details. In the course of two and a half months in 1838 traveling some 800 miles south from Cairo Roberts recorded the monumental temple sites along the Nile in more than a hundred sketches. As the first British artist to sketch the monuments of Ancient Egypt set on "Plains so vast.that until you come near them you have no idea of their magnificence" Roberts was well aware of the stir his drawings would create in London. According to John Ruskin writing in PRAETERITA Roberts's drawings "were the first studies ever made conscientiously by an English painter not to exhibit his own skill but to give true portraiture of scenes of historical and religious interest. F.G. Moon and Co. hardcover
1875rif. ABC_46596Egypt 1875. A single oblong board 30 x 40 cm. Zangaki brothers 2 albumen photographic prints mounted on one board 1 on each side approx. 225 x 28 cm. 2 albumen photographic prints of a view of the Nile with pyramids in the background and the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo by the Zangaki brothers "Adelphoi Zangaki" who were two photographers of Greek origin active in Egypt from ca. 1870 until the beginning of the 20th century. They can be grouped together with other commercial photographers who worked in Egypt during the second half of the 19th century. These photographers such as Félix Bonfils Gustave le Gray and others who were mostly of French origin were able to capitalise on the rising demand for photographic prints as souvenirs. Photographers like the Zangaki brothers often sold the albumen prints from their studios located in cities like Port Said Cairo and Suez but produced the actual photographs using the collodion process in a portable darkroom - a cart or sometimes even a boat - in the field.The brothers were quite prolific producing at least 1500 photographs of Egypt and other regions of the Middle East during the span of a few decades around the turn of the 20th century. Since these photographs were taken with the purpose of creating prints for tourists the subjects are often "quintessentially Egyptian" and sights such as the pyramids along the Nile river are captured. However they also provide a glimpse into Egyptian daily life or occasionally one can sneak a peek at one the photographers and their portable darkroom. Not much is known about the Zangaki brothers and until quite recently people thought that the photographic prints signed "Zangaki" were produced by one single person. With a tear in the lower margin not affecting the photographs some foxing remnants of white tape to one of the side margins of the board with a small blue ink mark below an inscription "Mosque of El Azhar." in the margin below the photograph of said mosque. Overall in good condition.l cf. Erdem Views of Egypt by Georgios and Constantinos Zangaki . 2009; Hannavy in: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography p. 1521; Perez Focus east p. 233. ABE CAT Art History ABE CAT Middle East Arabian Peninsula unknown
1927rif. 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
rif. 121058Vintage gelatin silver photographs each one approximately 99 × 147 mm extensively captioned in ink on the versos; they are dated between 19 December 1914 and 8 January 1915 shortly prior to Galagher's deployment to Gallipoli where he was killed in action on 8 May 1915 in the 2nd Division's attack on Krithia near Cape Helles. Four of the prints are slightly stained; a few have tiny ink marks on the recto identifying landmarks or soldiers; an excellent group. All but three of the captions are signed 'Fred' or initialled 'F' but all captions are in the same hand; seven are numbered in series. Seven images show Australian New Zealand and Allied troop movements in central Cairo around the coronation of the newly-installed puppet Sultan Hussein Kamel misidentified as the Khedive in the captions; nine show life in and around Mena Camp at the foot of the pyramids with numerous landmarks and several officers identified. The final six images show the visit to the camp of Sir George Reid High Commissioner in London and former Prime Minister of Australia accompanied by Brigadier General Bridges and Major General Birdwood 'This is midwinter & the temperature on this day at noon was 98 deg shade 189 in the sun' writes Galagher on a scene showing Sir George in tails and top hat. 22 items. unknown
2001rif. 44915Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Lower corners of Vol 3 a bit bumped. Dustjackets are protected in plastic sleeves.; 3 Volume Complete Set. Sandpiper reprint.; Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints; 1-3; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2136 pages; A documented study of the main aspects of Alexandrian life in the Ptolemaic period. An attempt to provide a documented account of selected but associated aspects both of the city as a social unit - its topography its civic organisation and constitutional history its commerce and its cults - and of its achievement in science learning and literature . 2001. 0198142781 . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
1846rif. 26628London: F.G. Moon and Co. 1846. From the Standard Folio First Edition limited to 500 sets only. A single original hand-coloured lithographic plate drawn on stone by Louis Haghe after David Roberts' paintings done on location in 1838. Printed on a half folio sheet 17" x 15" the captioned image is 14" x 10" now presented in cream mounting boards 21" x 17" glazed behind clear mylar. Beautifully hand-coloured to the highest standards of the time. An example in excellent condition clean fresh beautifully preserved. FROM One of the most desirable of all travel and COLOURplate books. A very beautiful image of the the Island of Philae from the Nile at Sunset. In the foreground are reeds and a sailboat behind which can be seen in near silhouette the Temple of Isis on the island. Philae was accounted to be one of the burying-places of Osiris and was held in high reverence both by the Egyptians to the north and the Nubians to the south. It was deemed profane for any but priests to dwell there and was accordingly sequestered and denominated "the Unapproachable." This is a view now un-viewable to modern eyes. Due to decades of constant flooding of Philae after the construction of the Aswan Low Dam every building was dismantled into about 40000 units and then transported to higher ground on the nearby island of Agilkia. The project was completed in time for the 1970 construction of the the Aswan High Dam. We have a good number of impressive images from the Standard Folio Edition of this classic work available for purchase. As well as many views of Egypt we also have available views of Nubia Petra Sinai the Jordan Tyre Sidon and Baalbec. Please inquire for further details. In the course of two and a half months in 1838 traveling some 800 miles south from Cairo Roberts recorded the monumental temple sites along the Nile in more than a hundred sketches. As the first British artist to sketch the monuments of Ancient Egypt set on "Plains so vast.that until you come near them you have no idea of their magnificence" Roberts was well aware of the stir his drawings would create in London. According to John Ruskin writing in PRAETERITA Roberts's drawings "were the first studies ever made conscientiously by an English painter not to exhibit his own skill but to give true portraiture of scenes of historical and religious interest. F.G. Moon and Co. hardcover
1846rif. 26627London: F.G. Moon and Co. 1846. From the Standard Folio First Edition limited to 500 sets only. A single original hand-coloured lithographic plate drawn on stone by Louis Haghe after David Roberts' paintings done on location in 1838. Printed on a half folio sheet 17" x 13.5" the captioned image is 13.75" x 10" now presented in cream mounting boards 21" x 17" glazed behind clear mylar. Beautifully hand-coloured to the highest standards of the time. An example in excellent condition clean fresh beautifully preserved. FROM One of the most desirable of all travel and COLOURplate books. A very beautiful image of the Temple of Isis on the Island of Philae looking down the Nile. Philae was accounted to be one of the burying-places of Osiris and was held in high reverence both by the Egyptians to the north and the Nubians to the south. It was deemed profane for any but priests to dwell there and was accordingly sequestered and denominated "the Unapproachable." This is a view now un-viewable to modern eyes. Due to decades of constant flooding of Philae after the construction of the Aswan Low Dam every building was dismantled into about 40000 units and then transported to higher ground on the nearby island of Agilkia. The project was completed in time for the 1970 construction of the the Aswan High Dam. We have a good number of impressive images from the Standard Folio Edition of this classic work available for purchase. As well as many views of Egypt we also have available views of Nubia Petra Sinai the Jordan Tyre Sidon and Baalbec. Please inquire for further details. In the course of two and a half months in 1838 traveling some 800 miles south from Cairo Roberts recorded the monumental temple sites along the Nile in more than a hundred sketches. As the first British artist to sketch the monuments of Ancient Egypt set on "Plains so vast.that until you come near them you have no idea of their magnificence" Roberts was well aware of the stir his drawings would create in London. According to John Ruskin writing in PRAETERITA Roberts's drawings "were the first studies ever made conscientiously by an English painter not to exhibit his own skill but to give true portraiture of scenes of historical and religious interest. F.G. Moon and Co. hardcover
rif. 9476No imprint Ca. 1950. Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Quarto. Unpaginated. Comprising of 3 sections: Paragraphs 1-145; plus ca. 30 leaves with different pagination; plus xxxix leaves of Additional Series of Notes. Typewriter produced manuscript printed on recto only. HARDCOVER nicely bound in navy blue full cloth; very few underlines in red pencil. In mint condition. ~ Extremely rare original manuscript by the renowned Egyptologist Jaroslav Cerny 1898-1970. Comprising essentially of 3 parts the manuscript was edited by Herbert Walter Fairman 1907-1982 and copied in 1952 by Constant de Wit 1907-1989. In her memorial volume to Cerny Rome BIP 1975 Sarah Israelit Groll says that the first section paragraphs 1-145 Prepositions nouns and verbs was first copied by Caminos in 1950 for Gardiner and is now in the Griffith Institute. As far as we are aware no comparison has ever been made between the two versions. The present manuscript is a direct carbon copy of the typed manuscript. The hieroglyphic text is handwritten in pencil directly on the paper apparently by De Wit. The second section which is typed here as integral continuation of the first has entries on Negation Prothetic aleph in L. E. Periphrasis with "iri" Relative Clauses Relatives Participles Non-Verbal Sentences Participles. It is assumed that this section was not included in Caminos' copy of 1950 and appears here for the first time. The last section titled "Additional Series of Notes" Pp. xxxix is reproduced on photocopier. Provenance: From the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Michel Malaise 1943-2016 with his signature in pencil to title-page. TIM-3 No imprint (Ca. 1950). hardcover
rif. 5917London Oxford Egypt Exploration Society 1950-2013. 1st Edition . Soft cover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Sixty-eight volumes. Quarto. Various paginations. Plated and figures. Original stiff wrappers. In a very good condition mostly in fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION; few issues in reprint. A complete uninterrupted run of 68 years. Plus Reviews Supplements 71 and 90. Total of 70 volumes of the series fully collated for completeness and condition. 2 BXS FLR3 London, Oxford, Egypt Exploration Society, 1950-2013. paperback
1951rif. 18507Cairo 1951. Album with approxmately 280 photographs; mounted with photo-corners only not glued down; many with identifiers on back dating the photograph and naming the participants; many photographs of social activities state and company dinners tennis matches other sporting activities where apparently these people went to be entertained in Cairo and Alexandria Egypt; a mixing of Middle-Eastern and Western-style events with some military and political leaders socially melding with the engineers and workers on this project; with views of the Egyptian countryside as well as of the plant; with a book in Arabic evidently promoting the new facility with black and white photographs; also including about 30-40 photographs of family outings evidently in Europe Italy and other places where family and friends may have had leave from building the project; various formats mostly snapshot size however there are many 3" x 5" and larger even a couple of 7"x 9" size; all contained in a faux leather album with a very worn spine and coming disbound; photographs clear well-taken and very well preserved recording a little-known aspect of Western business and industrial development in the Middle East with the participation of wives and families while a project was being completed and during the Nasser revolutionary era; We note that some of the equipment possibly for power generation bears the Babcock & Wilcox name and also equipment from Kohorn who were textile equipment manufacturers; these names are visible on the apparatus pictured in the accompanying brochure. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover
