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LOT 1001

Sold for (Inc. bp): £26

ARCHAEOLOGICAL BOOKS - ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BOOKS ON WRITING AND LITERATURE
1958-1998
6 1/8 x 5 - 11 3/8 x 9 in. (2.76 kg total, 15.7 x 12.7 - 29 x 23 cm).

James E. Hoch - Middle Egyptian Grammar: Sign List - Mississauga, 1998, card covers, spiral bound, 70 pp; Nina M. Davies - Picture Writing in Ancient Egypt - Oxford. 1958, hardback with dustwrapper, 56 pp, 17 plates; Miriam Lichtheim - Ancient Egyptian Literature. Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms - Berkeley, 1973, hardback with dustwrapper, 245 pp, Volume II: The New Kingdom, Berkeley, 1976, card covers, 239 pp, Volume III: The Late Period, Berkeley, 1980, card covers, 228 pp; Louis V. Zabkar - A Study of the Ba Concept in Ancient Egyptian Texts - Chicago, 1968, card covers, 163 pp, 6 plates; J Cerny - Paper and Books in Ancient Egypt - Chicago, 1977, card covers, 36 pp; Margaret Murray - Elementary Egyptian Grammar - London, 1920, hardback clothbound, 104 pp, foldout tables. [8, No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020.

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