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
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
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
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
[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. Hardcover. 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 removed..... 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
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
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
Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 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, details..... 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
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
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977. Soft cover. Soft cover. 512 pp. Sticker ghosts and bump to fore edge of front cover. Age toning to pages and rear cover. "This book is an extremely erudite study of the seasonal rituals of several societies of the ancient Near East, as..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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. 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
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