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1990Book in as new condition. 176pp. Blue padded covers. Includes Breakthrough at Sumer, The Way of the Pharaohs, The Empire on the Aegean, Stirrings in Asia etc.
1990Book in as new condition. 176pp. Blue padded covers. Includes The Aggressive Empires; Egypt's Golden Age; The Greek Crucible; The Mediterranean Traders; Asian Evolutions; Awakening in the Americas etc.
1990Book in as new condition. 176pp. Blue padded covers. Includes Persia at the Crest; The Hellenic Unfolding; Dawn of the Romans; Enlightenment in the East etc.
1991Book in as new condition. 176pp. Blue padded covers. Includes The Odyssey of Alexander the Great; The Grandeur of Imperial Rome; The Quest for Power in the East; The Flowering of China etc.
2002No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 171pp.
1997No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Tiny label with previous owner's heraldic mark inside front cover. 304pp.
1991Previous owner's name to half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 201pp. A detailed and fascinating study of the often overlooked contribution made by women of all classes to the political and social history of pharaonic Egypt from around 3100 BC to 30 BC.
2004No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little minor indenting. 124pp. A study of Ancient Egypt's Pharaohs and other parts of Egyptian society. Very well illustrated.
2002Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 224pp. Cyril Aldred's classic work, revised and updated by Aidan Dobson tells the story of the twin factors responsible for the flowering of the ancient Kingdoms of Egypt, namely the Nile and her Pharaohs.
2000No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor trace of label removal and no bumping to corners. 256pp. The author explores the birth and growth of the remarkable culture built by the Ancient Egyptians which stood for an unprecedented 3000 years. He discovers the cause behind its eventual collapse and celebrates the remarkable legacy it has left behind.
1999No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with very light creasing to upper edge and traces of storage. 128pp. This study explores every aspect of the mythological and cultural background of mummification - the religion and rituals, the myths of Osiris and Isis and the cult of the Pharaohs.
1930No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine, tanning to page edges and end papers and no bumping to corners. 323pp. Translated from the Latin in the 16th century, this edition of the work originally written around the 3rd century AD, was revised and partly re-written by FA Wright. In the Broadway Translations series. Undated, ca 1930s.
1954No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and spine, very slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little foxing to sunned spine. Fold-out map at end in excellent condition. Protected in a very good slipcase with rusty staples and lightly foxed title label to spine. 192 plates plus 279pp. A very detailed study of North African and Middle Eastern architecture from around 3000 to 3500 BC up to about 500 BC.. Very well illustrated.
1990No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to upper corners of covers, very faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very slightly indented front. 165pp. The author lived with the Ma'aza Bedouin peoples in the northern half of Egypt's Eastern Desert for nearly two years. During this time he learnt their beliefs, their ways and their knowledge of this drought-stricken desert which they consider their beloved homeland, conserving their few resources to ensure their future livelihood. He shows how the Ma'aza have evolved from being abusers to being preservers of the natural environment - a lesson we could all benefit from learning.
1994No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark grey cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nick to upper front corner and minor traces of storage. 168pp. Before the land of Nubia in Upper Egypt was lost under the waters of Lake Nasser behind the Aswan Dam in the 1960s, the author travelled among the Nubian people from the 1930s onwards. This book is a record of her journeys where she captured the vibrancy, colour and the culture of these people in words, sketches, drawings, photographs and paintings, mostly in colour.
1871Front cover detached but present. Some shelfwear and minor rubbing to boards. Some foxing to first and last pages. Internally near fine with binding tight; Decorative green 1/4 leather boards with gilt decoration. Marbled edges and matching covers. Spine with gilt ornate, bordeaux spine label and five raised bands. Numerous plates in sepia from drawings ; 12mo; 344 pages
1908Boards and spine darkened. Spots to spine. ; In German. Edges uncut. Numerous b&w illustrations from photos ; 8vo; 303 pages
1965Minor chipping to DJ. Binding slightly loose in places; The Egyptian version of Mount Rushmore, in living color ; Color Photographs; Square 8vo; 192 pages
1962Minor discoloration and rubbing to ivory boards; In German. With wonderful glossy b&w photographs; B&W Photographs; 4to; 289 pages
1970DJ a bit tanned and with light wear to extremities; Explore up the Nile with this expedition ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 271 pages
1933Both volumes have light rubbing to extremities. Vol one has light foxing throughout, and front hinge starting; Vol two has foxing to edges; Volume one has fold-out map of the region in rear. Intended as a follow-up to the Earl of Cromer's 'Modern Egypt, ' Lloyd covers the fifty years since the British occupied Egypt to install a new government, supposedly for their own good. ; 8vo; 390, 418 pages
1951Boards with moderate wear to extremities. Spine ends fraying ; Maps in endpapers; B&W Photographs; 332 pages
1909Boards with moderate wear. Hinges started and with some tape repair ; Top edge gilt. Chatty, personal account of trip up the Nile through Egypt. Dark blue boards with heiroglyphic-style illustration of lions. Map in fep. Sixteen color plates and thirty-two B&W photographs; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 448 pages
1951Previous owner's name on front free endpaper ; Some of the Egyptian pharaohs have, until now, been overlooked ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 256 pages
1962Bookplate. DJ price clipped ; Letter from previous owner laid in. Study of the potential effect of the Aswan dam, which would be completed in 1970 ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 198 pages
