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1971réf. 102289London: Egypt Exploration Fund Egypt Exploration Society 1971. Original issue not a reprint. Paperback. Minor sunning to exterior; else overall very good. Large quarto small folio: illustrations plates facsimiles; 28 cm. Folding plates. 337 pages 47 plates. Color frontis. Heavily illustrated with b&w photo plates and line drawings. Includes papers on Coffin Text Spells Excavation of Sawama In Artifical Eyes in Mummies. Crossword Hymn to Mut Strucuttre of Divine Triads; Saqqara Gem Amulets and more. Over 24 scholarly articles. / Ancient Egypt; Antiquities Egypt Egypt Antiquities Periodicals. A heavy item. Extra charges may be requested for priority or international postage. Egypt Exploration Fund, Egypt Exploration Society paperback
1972réf. 102290London: Egypt Exploration Fund Egypt Exploration Society 1972. Original issue not a reprint. Paperback. Spine wrap superfically cracked and creased chiefly at foot; minor sunning to exterior; else overall very good. Tight and clean within. Large quarto small folio: illustrations plates facsimiles; 28 cm. Folding plates. 242 pages 67 plates. Color frontis. Includes papers on Rock Inscriptions of Buhen; Coffin Texts Spells; Teeth and Bread in Ancient Egypy; Early Egyptian Guide to the Hereafter; Positions of Arms and Hands of Mummies; Royal Bronze Shawabti and more. Over 26 scholarly articles. / Ancient Egypt; Antiquities Egypt Egypt Antiquities Periodicals. A heavy item. Extra charges may be requested for priority or international postage. Egypt Exploration Fund, Egypt Exploration Society paperback
1970réf. 102276London: Egypt Exploration Fund Egypt Exploration Society 1970. Original issue not a reprint. Paperback. Spine wrap partly chipped and frayed at head; minor sunning to exterior; else overall very good. Tight and clean within. Large quarto smal folio: illustrations plates facsimiles; 28 cm. Folding plates. 235pages 67 plates. Color frontis. Heavily illustrated with b&w photo plates and line drawings. Includes papers on El Fara'in Button Seals Design AmuletsThe Egyptian Labyrinth Papyrus and others Over eighteen scholarly articles. / Ancient Egypt; Antiquities Egypt Egypt Antiquities Periodicals. A heavy item. Extra charges may be requested for priority or international postage. Egypt Exploration Fund, Egypt Exploration Society paperback
1929réf. 93458Le Caire Cairo Egypt: Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 1929. Paperback. About near fine- to very good with small chips to tender wrapper edges only. Please see photos. Folio in offwhite printed paper wraps; 6 unnumbered pages 58 pages 1 unnumbered page iv plates: illustrations; 29 cm. In French with Ancient Egyptian hieroglphs. Series: Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte. / Politics and government Art Egyptian. Inscriptions Egyptian. To 332 B.C. Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale paperback
réf. 2535714 January 1893; on letterhead of the British Embassy Berlin. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. In good condition lightly aged and folded once for postage. With the item’s worn envelope with ‘British Embassy / Berlin.’ printed on the damaged flap addressed by Malet to ‘Sir Robert Head Bt. / 97 Zimmer Strasse’ and initialed by him at bottom-left ‘R B Malet’. The letter which is signed ‘Edward B Malet’ begins: ‘Dear Sir Robert Head / My wife will be very happy to take you and Lady Head to Countess Brockdorff’s on Monday at 3 1/2. I shall be glad to lend you a frock coat for the occasion as it is clear hat you cannot have one made by then - and you could put it on when you come here on Monday.’ He ends by stating that he ‘lent one to Mr. Fraser for this same occasion this afternoon’ and that he thinks they are ‘all three of the same size more or less’. 14 January 1893; on letterhead of the British Embassy, Berlin. unknown
1696réf. 000273Amsterdam: Gerardus Brostius 1696. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to pp. 16 492. Includes extra engraved title page. Library stamp on main title accompanied by a second perforated library stamp near the printer's device. The outer edges to the first few prelims are slightly worn. Pages are generally clean with occasional mild marginal spotting. A small piece is missing from bottom margin of the final leaf. Page 492 is a bit soiled. Bound in brown library buckram; title and shelf number in gilt on the spine; pocket on inside front cover. Hermann Witsius 1636-1708 was a Dutch theologian and a professor of divinity at Franeker 1675 Utrecht 1680 and Leiden 1698. EB11. His Aegyptiaca first printed in 1683 compares the religious rites of the Jews and the Egyptians. He argues against the theory put forth by Sir John Marsham and by John Spencer that Jewish traditions were derived from Egyptian practices. This second edition has been expanded from the first. Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 339; Caillet 11462 - listing the 1683 and 1717 editions; Jouin - Bibl. occultiste 797; Brunet V 1468 . Gerardus Brostius hardcover
réf. 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
réf. GB0015TF9ISI3N01The Dial Press. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. The Dial Press hardcover
1946réf. N2158aFanara/ Egypt: Verlag Der Tribuene 1946. First Edition . Original Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo. Hans Preis. 151pp German text Printed on one side only.N.D. ca 1946 .Illustrationen Hans Preis. Inscribed by the author to his mother 16.3.1948. Adolf Sindler 1899-1965 pediatrician Düsseldorf-Haifa.Extremely rare exile item. S A Minimal outside markings.A very good and clean copy. Verlag Der Tribuene unknown
1984réf. N1198Paris: Editions Du Scribe 1984. Original Cloth with d/j. Near Fine. Folio. 279pp. French text. Richly illustrated many colour plates A fine copy. Editions Du Scribe hardcover
réf. biblio55Fine. First edition Hard cover Université Laval de Montréal Montréal 1890 Fine Ex-library Signed by previous owner iii et 119 p Rel toile embossée contient 13 planches hors texte en artotypie de la ''Canadian Bank Note Co Rare hardcover
1903réf. 3864Egypt: various dates 1903. Various sizes. Twenty-nine printed menus with specific offerings printed or in manuscript. On various papers some with chromolithograph illustrations; some with embossed debossed or die-cut elements; some with edges beveled and gilt. Texts in Arabic French German and English. An unusual group of Egyptian menus from a moment when the British Germans and Austro-Hungarians were jockeying for Power in the region and the last of the Khedive rulers was in power. The collection includes menus from Palais Ismaïlia; Palais D’Abdine; Savoy Hotel Cairo; Ziftah Barrage; Hotel Angst; Unter den Belten bei den Chalifen-Gräbern Kairo under the straights at the Khalifa Tombs Cairo; and Ghésireh Palace Hotel. ~ Four of the menus are from the Palais D'Abdine in November and December of 1902 and bear the coat of arms of Abbas Helmi II Khedive of Egypt the last to serve as King of Egypt before being deposed by the British in 1914. One of these menus is labeled for S.E. El-Lewn F. Thurneyssen Pacha ecuyer riding instructor to the King and one of many Austro-Hungarians close the Khedive court much to the consternation of the British. A second menu from this group is labeled in Arabic which we have been unable to translate. Additionally two menus hail from the Palais Ismaila and record dinners on consecutive evenings March 3 and March 4 1903. Each of bears the hand-lettered names of the guests: Moustapha Fehmi Pasha who had served as 7th Prime Minster of Egypt; and Hr. Van der Does de Villebois the Dutch Consul General later posted to Constantinople. Perhaps some light soiling or a bumped corner to a few menus otherwise condition throughout is very good. various dates unknown
réf. 249712 April 1884 on letterhead of the ‘Legation d’Angleterre’ British Embassy in Brussels. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. An area torn away at the head of the first leaf with the loss of one word of text has been skilfully repaired with archival paper; otherwise in good condition lightly aged. He apologizes for being unable to ‘come to your at home tomorrow as I can not go to any parties till after the funeral of the Duke of Albany’. He asks her to ‘accept and make use of’ tickets ‘for some tableaux vivants which are to take place tomorrow night at the house of the Princesse de Caraman-chimay. They are likely to be interesting as the best looking ladies of the society take part in them’. Signed ‘Edward B Malet’. 2 April 1884, on letterhead of the ‘Legation d’Angleterre’ (British Embassy in Brussels). unknown
1985réf. 048677Tokyo: Waseda University - Tokyo Japan. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. Softcover. Softcover. Red covers with black title on front board. Light wear. Just a hint of sunning of spine. 49 pages of text plus plates in the rear. Plates are black & white photographs. A nice copy. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 49 pages . Waseda University - Tokyo Japan paperback
1871réf. 33745London: John Murray 1871. 2 volumes. Fifth Edition With Numerous Additions and Improvements From a Copy Annotated by the Author With 130 illustrations through the two volumes appearing in both text and as full-page plates. 8vo publisher's original blind-embossed cloth the spine panels lettered in gilt. xxiii 386; viii 379 pp. A very fine set beautifully preserved as pristine and near mint hinges and text-blocks both in excellent condition very scarce in this condition. A VERY FINE WORK ON MANY ASPECTS OF EGYPTIAN MANNERS UP TO THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Illustrated throughout the books were acknowledged for their accuracy and scope. They were reprinted many times well into the 20th century and have long been considered one of the most astute texts on Egypt and the Egyptians into the 20th century. Subjects included in the chapters relate to the country and climate religion and laws government domestic life society language literature science superstitions and magic alchemy industry tobacco bath games and music public celebrations and festivals as well as many more subjects. A complete work on Egypt. John Murray hardcover
1880réf. 33358Probably Cairo: Probably Maison Bonfils ca. 1880. With 56 full page albumen photographs mounted on board and with descriptions lettered by hand on the boards beneath the images. 210 x 270 mm. the mounted photographic images approximately 195 x 250 mm. the photographs are housed in a folding protective binder of brown calf the covers with triple gilt fillet rules the spine and upper cover with dark brown lettering labels gilt the inner portions of the foldover binding are decorated with patterned papers of red green and cream. 56 photographs on 28 boards the photographs in sepia. A very well preserved set with normal age and fading. A FINE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF EGYPT including street scenes landscapes architecture photographs of mosques and tombs of the pyramids and ancient monuments and of people gathered in groups in Cairo and of Bedouin Arabs in gatherings and alone. Maison Bonfils was a French family-run company producing and selling photography and photographic products from Beirut then in Ottoman Syria now in Lebanon from 1867 until 1918 from 1878 on renamed "F. Bonfils et Cie". The Bonfils ran the first and in their time most successful photographic studio in the city. Maison Bonfils produced studio portraits staged biblical scenes landscapes and panoramic photographs. Félix Bonfils a French photographer married Marie-Lydie Cabanis in 1857. The couple together with their son Adrien moved to Beirut in 1867 where they opened a photographic studio called "Maison Bonfils" on what later became rue Georges-Picot. Maison Bonfils produced thousands of photographs of the Middle East. Bonfils worked with both his wife and his son. They photographed landscapes portraits scenes with subjects dressed in Middle Eastern regalia and also stories from the Bible. Félix Bonfils took photographs in Ottoman Syria in today's Lebanon Syria Israel & Palestine the Khedivate of Egypt Greece and Constantinople producing the vast majority of his work while his wife and son were also involved in photography produced by the studio. As few are signed it is difficult to identify who is responsible for individual photographs. Lydie is thought to have taken some of the studio portraits especially those of Middle Eastern women who were more inclined to pose for a female photographer. In 1876 Félix returned to AlÄs to have compiled collections of their photographs published. In 1878 when the name of the studio was changed to "F. Bonfils et Cie" Adrien was back in Beirut after completing his studies in France and took more responsibility for photography including landscape. Félix again travelled to AlÄs to establish a collotype printing factory in 1880 and died there in 1885. Probably Maison Bonfils hardcover
1846réf. 26864London: 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 single folio sheet 17" x 23" the captioned image is 12.75" x 19.25" now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" 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 interesting image of the Temple at Kom Omboan unusual double temple built during the Ptolemaic dynasty 180-47 BC. This was painted prior to the temple's restoration by by Jacques de Morgan in 1893 and in the image most of the temple remains hidden beneath the shifting desert sand. A group of locals standing beside one of the columns provides an excellent sense of scale. 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
1847réf. 26861London: 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 single folio sheet 23" x 17.5" the captioned image is 19.25" x 13" now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" 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. This is an especially attractive plate showing one of the best preserved temples in Egypt. The temple dedicated to the falcon god Horus was built in the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 BC. The temple is located on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Edfu which was known in Greco-Roman times as Apollonopolis Magna after the chief god Horus-Apollo. The temple of Edfu is the largest temple dedicated to Horus. 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 there are also views available of Tyre Nubia Petra Sinai the Jordan 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
1847réf. 26863London: 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 single folio sheet 23" x 17.5" the captioned image is 19.25" x 13" now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" 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. This is an especially attractive plate showing the Ramesseum near Luxor the funeral temple of Ramses II. Prominent in the view is the huge fallen Ozymandias colossus which if not broken would rival the Colossi of Memnon. Colourfully dressed visitors stand near the Colossus while others stand in the foreground. The Osirid statues and what is commonly referred to as "the other head" are also in the view. 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 there are also views available of Tyre Nubia Petra Sinai the Jordan 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
1846réf. 26518London: 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 single folio sheet 23.25" x 16.25" the captioned image is 19.75" x 13.75" now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" glazed behind clear mylar. Beautifully hand-painted 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. 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
1846réf. 26560London: 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 single folio sheet 17.25" x 24" the captioned image is 13.25" x 21" now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" 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 image of the interior of the Grand Portico at the Temple of Esna. Highly colored as printed and very atmospheric. 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
1845réf. 26561London: F.G. Moon and Co. 1845. 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 single folio sheet 24" x 16.5" the captioned image is 19.5" x 13" now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" 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. 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
1846réf. 26562London: 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 single folio sheet 24" x 16.5" the captioned image is 19.5" x 13" now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" 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 famous and iconic image being the Colossi of Memnon the two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III which for the past 3400 years have stood in the Theban necropolis west of the River Nile near the modern city of Luxor. 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
1848réf. 26558London: F.G. Moon and Co. 1848. 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 single folio sheet 17.25" x 24" the captioned image is 13.25" x 21" now presented in cream mounting boards 30" x 24" 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. 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
1846réf. 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
