Zurich: Living Human Heritage Publications, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 154 p.p. Miniature tear to head of front jacket cover opposite spine, but otherwise fine. Light wear to boards. As new. The Amduat is one of the earliest illustrated religious texts about the afterlife found in the tomb of Tuthmosis... More about Knowledge for the Afterlife. The Egyptian Amduat - a Quest for Immortality
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 about Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt
Ithica and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). First English Edition. xi, 490 p.p. Light rubbing to jacket covers. Some bumping to spine ends. Interior clean, crisp. A fine copy and interesting book on the culture of death and funerary practices n Ancient Egypt, More about Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Translated from the German By David Lorton, Abridged and...
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 about A Guide to the Collections in the British Museum
[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 about The Great Pyramid Decoded
London: Printed for William Bowyer, 1753. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ...To Which are Added Remarks on the Origin of Hieroglyphics, and the Mythology of Ancient Heathens. Dedicated to the Society of Antiquaries, London. 168 p.p. With 2 plates [folding]. Bookworm holes partially affecting [4] leaves at index. Quarter bound with... More about A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai, and Back Again. Translated from a Manuscript, Written...
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1960. Hard Cover. 8vo. 162 p.p. Original green cloth with gilt titling on spine. Dust jacket a little sunned at head, light wear to spine ends, and one small tear to rear at head, else fine. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Sticker... More about Wonders of Antiquity
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 about Luxor: How to See it
Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. vii, 184 p.p. Illustrated boards. Pictorial endpapers. Veteran spell-caster Claudia R. Dillaire turns to the dark art of Egyptian magic, revealing how rituals practiced thousands of years ago just might provide the necessary catharsis for our modern times. With 25 spells... More about Egyptian Revenge Spells: Ancient Rituals for Modern Payback
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio. [1887] Two Volumes. First English Edition. Brown cloth with pictorial boards stamped in gilt and black. A.e.g. Moire endpapers. Vol I: XXIV, 327 p.p.; Vol. II: xxii, 388 p.p. Frontis with tissue guards, plus numerous b/w illustrations throughout, both full page..... More about Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque. Translated from the Original German By Clara...
New York: D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover. 4to (large). [1881-1883]. In Two Volumes. Pictorial blind stamped boards. A.e.g. with inner edges dentelle. Marbled endpapers. Vol. I: x, 480 p.p., [20] plates of steel engraved illustrations incl. frontis and vignette on half-title page; Vol. 2: x, 476 p.p. [20] plates of... More about Picturesque Palestine: Sinai and Egypt...Assisted By the Most Eminent Palestine Explorers...With...
New York City: Arthur Richmond Company, 1955. Hard Cover. 8vo. xi, 411 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and blind stamped serpent device to front board. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Top edge sunned with a small damp stain near spine head. Else fine. Dust... More about The Encircled Serpent: A Fascinating & Authoritative Study of Serpent Symbolism in All...
London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. 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... More about The Origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the...
London: Phaidon, 1968. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. 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... More about Egypt: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting In Three Thousand Years
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 about Egyptian Religion
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 about The City of Caliphs: a Popular Study of Cairo and Its Environs and the Nile and Its Antiquities
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ROLLIN, Charles [1661-1741]. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians. By M[onsieur] Rollin. Translated from the French. In Two Volumes. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1844. Two volumes. li, 527p.p.;... More about The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians,Babylonians, Medes, and Persians,...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1919. Hard Cover. 8vo. Published for the John Rylands Library at the University Press. xx, 234 p.p., [3 p.p. ads]. Original blue cloth boards, sunning to spine and head of boards, bumping and rubbing to spine ends, damp stains to boards and spine, some foxing and... More about The Evolution of the Dragon
London: The Folio Society, 2003. Ray, Jane. Hardcover. 8vo (super). Quarter bound red leather spine over decorative purple cloth boards. Title lettered vertical on spine. Top edge in red. In red slipcase. xviii, 642 p.p. With [17] brightly coloured illustrations. Light rubbing to extremities.Some scuffing to case with smal bruise... More about Myths and Legends of the Ancient Near East
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1922. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). xii, 121 p.p., numerous photographs and illustrations..Light jacket wear. Otherwise as new. More about Hieroglyphs Without Mystery. An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Writing.. Translated and Adapted...