This rare book begins with an introduction that considers the construction, rigging, furniture, decoration and manning of ancient Egyptian craft. The main body of the text considers hundreds of models of Egyptian craft and details of same. An exemplary study of the boat models found in Egyptian tombs, in turn the starting point in any investigation of the design and construction of real boats and ships in ancient Egypt. Chapters on Egyptian Wooden River Boats, the Papyrus Raft, Wooden Boats, Funeral Barks, Private Sun Barks and more. Illustrations include 389 figures in text and. & 33 plates.Folio [9 X 12 inches] xxviii, 171 p., xxxiii leaves of plates : ill. ; Le Caire : Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1913.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Cloth, no dj. Folio. Facsimile reprint of the 1913 edition. 171 pp. text with figures throughout. 33 b&w plates. Minor shelf wear. Else very sound, with clean internals. Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy. 2007 Martino Publishing facsimile reprint. Artikel-Nr. 2043209
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