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Hardcover. Zustand: Good+ to very good condition. First edition. 956/1000. Quarto. xi, (2)614 (1)pp., 25 plates, including frontispiece. Original light blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Decorative stiff endpapers. Original light blue printed stiff wraps bound in. Frontispiece photograph of Wilbour. Charles Edwin Wilbour was a learned and broad-minded spectator of the Egyptological world. For several winters he enjoyed the privilege of being Maspero's guest on the steamer attached to the Antiquities Department of Egypt. No official excavation could be made without his direct knowledge and his immediate visit to the locality. Through his friendly relations with the natives, who made their own excavations, openly or secretly, he was additionally acquainted with many discoveries at first kept hidden from the authorities. The letters are written from day to day to members of his family in Paris or America. They were not intended for publication and are full of personal and intimate matter." (Foreword). Illustrated with some in-text drawings and twenty-five plates (color and b/w) depicting artifacts, ships, Egyptologists, etc. Contains extensive index at rear. Light wear along edges of binding and lightly rubbed.…