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LOT 1023
Archaeological Books - Books on Religion in Ancient Egypt
1906-1957 A.D.
6 3/4 x 4 7/8 - 10 x 6 3/8 in. (1.81 kg total, 17.2 x 12.5 - 25.5 x 16.2 cm).
Patrick Boylan - Thoth: The Hermes of Egypt - London, 1922, hardback, 215 pp; Terence Gray - "And in the Tomb Were Found --" Plays and Portraits of Old Egypt - Cambridge, 1923, hardback, 236 pp; Jaroslav Cerny - Ancient Egyptian Religion - Westport, reprinted 1957, hardback, 159 pp; Margaret Murray - Egyptian Religious Poetry - London, 1949, hardback with dustwrapper, 120pp; Battiscombe B. Gunn (trans.) The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni: The Oldest Books in the World - London, 1906, hardback, 75 pp; James Teackle Dennis - The Burden of Isis - London, 1910, hardback, 59 pp. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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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LOT 1023
Archaeological Books - Books on Religion in Ancient Egypt
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
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Archaeological Books - Mixed Civilization Book Group
1961-1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Stuart Piggott (ed.) - The Dawn of Civilization - London, 1961, hardback, 404 pp; Joanne Jessop - the X-Ray Picture Book of Big Buildings of the Ancient World - London, 1995 edition, hardback with dustwrapper, 48 pp; rachel Storm - The Encyclopedia of Eastern Mythology - London, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 256 pp; Robin Cross - World War II in Photographs - Bristol, 1997 edition, hardback with dustwrapper, 96 pp; Geraldine Harris - Ancient Egypt - Oxford, 1990, hardback, 96 pp. 6.95 kg total, 35.5 x 26 - 30.5 x 23.3 cm
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Archaeological Books - Food: The Gift of Osiris - Volumes 1 & 2
1977 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
William J. Darby, Paul Ghalioungui, Louis Grivetti - Food: the Gift of Osiris- Volume 1 - London, 1977, hardback with dustwrapper, 452pp + indices; Volume 2 - London, 1977, hardback with dustwrapper, 424 pp + indices. 2.94 kg total, 23.5 x 18 cm each
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020. -
Archaeological Books - Early Dynastic Egypt
1999 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Toby A.H. Wilkinson - London, 1999, hardback with dustwrapper, 413 pp. 983 grams, 24 x 16.5 cm
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020.
