Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque, Volume I (only)

Beschreibung

24/ 314 pages; 313 illustrations; Name on endpaper, which has a crack, Not Stated (illustrator). Volume I of Georg Ebers' informative and illustrated history of Ancient Egypt, translated by Clara Bell, with notes by Samuel Birch. Volume I of a two-volume work in the publisher's original Half leather(leather rubbed to edges and spine with cracks) binding, min. stained. An important history of Ancient Egypt by Georg Ebers (1837-1898), an authority of Egyptology. He was best known for his purchase of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest Egyptian medical documents in the world. This work is translated from the original German into English by Clara Bell, an important translator of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an introduction and notes by the British Egyptologist and antiquarian Samuel Birch (1813-1885). Profusely illustrated throughout with a frontispiece, thirteen plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. Externally, generally satisfacting. Front hinges are slightly strained but remain firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with few spotted pages. Size: 25,5x33cm.

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Titel

Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque, Volume I (only)

Verlag

Cassell and Company, Limited, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1887

Einband

Half leather with leather Corn

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• Ägyptologie