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
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
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
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. 2nd Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. lviii, 353 p.p. With an updated bibliography. Corners curling slighly, lightly bumped in a few places, else a fine copy. "The Greek Magical Papyri" is a collection of magical spells and formulas, hymns and rituals from... More
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962. Hard Cover. 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... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. Hard Cover. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library Series No. 435. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and LCL monogram to front board. xxvii, 466 p.p., [8]. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped and and rubbed. Dust jacket lightly bumped and worn at extremities. The... More
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
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
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
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1922. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). xii, 121 p.p., numerous photographs and illustrations..Light jacket wear. Otherwise as new. More