Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt
Cairo, Egypt: The American University, 1987. Soft cover. 8vo. 207 p.p. Photographs throughout book. Small bumps to corners. Pink highligher marking text throughout book. More
Ancient Egypt
Egypt in Late Antiquity
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xii, 370 pp. [8] pp. plates of B&W photos, plus B&W map in text. Sunning to spine, else fine. This book brings together a vast amount of information pertaining to the society, economy, and culture of a province important to..... More
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo. With a New Foreword By Anthony T. Grafton [Bollingen Series XXIII]
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993. Soft cover. 8vo. 120 p.p., plus 1 p.p. ads, [10] p.p. illustrations incl. frontispiece. Light rubbing to covers, otherwise near fine. More
A Guide to the Collections in the British Museum
London: Printed By Order of the Trustees, 1909. Hardcover. 12mo [tall]. Original paperboards, quarter bound with later spine. xiv, 325 p.p., [2] ads. Features a preface by E.A. Wallis Budge, prolific scholar and author on Egyptology, who worked in the Department of Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum..... More
First Steps in Egyptian: A Book for Beginners
Mokelumne Hill, California: Health Research, 1972. Soft cover. 8vo. Reprint of the 1895 edition (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.). Spiral bound, green card covers. XVI, 321 p.p. Includes glossary and suggested reading. Some staining and bumping to covers, bumping and creasing to corners. Bookplate of Babette D...... More
The Great Pyramid Decoded
[California]: Artisan Sales, 1978. Soft cover. 8vo. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Paperback. 96 p.p. A biblical analysis of the Pyramids of Giza and Future Prophecy of the Second Coming of Christ. Covers slightly curled with wear to corners and edges. Creasing at some soilng to covers. Small dampstain to foot..... More
Obelisk: A History
Cambridge, MA: Burndy Library, 2009. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 383 pp. Fine. Nearly every empire worthy of the name - from ancient Rome to the United States - has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks - giant standing stones, invented in..... More
Luxor: How to See it
Egypt: World-Wide Publications. Soft cover. 12mo. 162 p.p. Paperback. Fold out map at end of book. Light foxing to rear cover. Damp stain to bottom right corner of rear cover. Interior clean. Overall, a near fine copy of book. Cury has also written similar books such as "Cairo: How to..... More
The Beginnings - Egypt & Assyria
New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Clio Medica Series, I. Full red cloth, black stamped lettering. ix, 86 pp. Sunned and rubbed to spine, light wear to spine ends and corners. Bookplate of Edgar T. Peer to front pastedown. This little volume inaugurates a series of..... More
Chronicles of Ancient Egypt
London: Prospero Books, 1998. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards, 160pp. Illustrated. Light bumping to spine and bottom edge of front board, o/w near fine in a near fine d/w. The Tales of the Gods, The Tales of the Pharos, and Secular Tales. More
Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque. Translated from the Original German By Clara Bell. With an Introduction and Notes By S. Birch.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio. [ca. 1887? 1883 or later/variant printing per publisher name change from Cassell, Petter & Galpin to Cassell & Company that year.] Two Volumes. First English Edition. Brown cloth with pictorial boards stamped in gilt and black. A.e.g. Moire endpapers. Vol I...... More
The Dawn of Civilization and Life in The Ancient East
Chicago: University of Knowledge, Incorporated, 1938. Hardcover. 8vo. The University of Knowledge Wonder Books. Navy leatherette boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. XVI, 17-384 pp. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Dust jacket is rubbed to joints and extremities, short tear to head..... More
Life in Ancient Egypt
New York: Dover Publications, 1974. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xxiii, 570 pp. [12] B&W illustrations. Light rubbing to extremities, a few creases. More
The Isles Were Disturbed
London: Hutchinson & Co. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. N.d., [ca. 1947]. Full red cloth. 240 pp. Rear board bowed, cloth stained. Bruising to top edge of rear board and lower corners. Foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to spine ends and corners..... More
The Origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ; its introduction to Europe ...
London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. The Origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis..... More
Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy
Middletown, DE: George G.M. James, 2008. Soft cover. 8vo. Yellow soft cover, 154pp. Fine. More
Egypt: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting In Three Thousand Years
London: Phaidon, 1968. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 4th ed. revised and englarged ; with additional material in the fourth German ed. translated by Judith Filson and Barbara Taylor. viii, 559 p.p. 330 plates, 60 in colour. Tan cloth boards with navy lettering to spine and falcon and ankh device..... More
Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt
Oakville, Connecticut: American Society of Papyrologists, 2001. Soft cover. 8o. Classics in Papyrology. Soft cover. xii, 184 pp, [8 pp. B&W plates]. B&W illustrations and maps in-text. Fine condition. In Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt, Naphtali Lewis follows the fortunes of Greek immigrants and their families who settled in Egypt in..... More
Manetho
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. Hardcover. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 350. Greek, Latin and English. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and LCL monogram to front board. xxxii, 256 p.p. White scuff to tail edge of front board, else fine. Dust jacket sunned at spine, a...... More
Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: The Story of Egyptology
New York: Coward-McCann, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and vignette to lower front board. Top edge blue. 349 p.p., [16] p.p. B&W plates. B&W illustrations in-text. Sunning to spine and edges. Bookplate to ffep. Dust jacket sunned at spine, chip to spine head, one inch..... More
Egyptian Religion
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. Soft cover. 8vo. Translated from German by Ann E. Keep. [xvi], 379 p.p. Paperback with illustrated cover. Light bumping to corners, else a fine copy. More
Great Pyramid Mystery
New York: Teen Age Books, INc., 1955. Soft cover. 4" x 7" Paperback. 248 pp. Toning and creasing to covers, rubbing to extremities. Interior age toned, creasing to lower corners of some pages at front. More
Ancient Glass
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo (super). Translated from the German by Michael Bullock and Alisa Jaffa. ix, 110 p.p. + 76 p.p. B&W plates. Twelve tipped-in colour illustrations incl. frontis (paginated). Map endpapers. Teal cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge red. Chafing to spine..... More
The City of Caliphs: A Popular Study of Cairo and Its Environs and the Nile and Its Antiquities
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1897. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Creme cloth binding. Gilt on front board and spine with illustration of a pyramid stamped in gilt on front board. The head of the sphinx stamped in gilt at head and foot of front board. [6] 335 p.p. [20] plates of photos..... More
From There to Here: Ancient Sex Worship and Egyptian Mythology: A Tour of Beliefs Through Egypt and Beyond
Geneva, Ill. Better Yet, publishers, 1977. Soft cover. 4.5" x 6.75" Soft cover. 120, [16], 67 pp. B&W illustrations. Some staining and discolouration to covers. Front cover slightly curled. Edge toning to interior. More