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LOT 1008
Archaeological Books - Roman Ancient Art Book Group
1971-1979 A.D.
12 1/4 x 9 - 13 1/2 x 7 in. (5 kg total, 31 x 23 - 34.5 x 18 cm).
Edward Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - London, 1979, hardback with dustwrapper, 256 pp; Peter Quennell - The Colosseum - London, 1071, hardback with dustwrapper, 171 pp; John Pearson - Arena: The Story of the Colosseum - London, 1973, hardback with dustwrapper, 192 pp; D.M. Wilson - Wealth of the Roman World - London, 1977, card covers, 190 pp; Donald Strong & David Brown - Roman Crafts - London, 1976, hardback with dustwrapper, 256 pp. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Archaeological Books - Books on Religion in Ancient Egypt
1906-1957 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
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. 1.81 kg total, 17.2 x 12.5 - 25.5 x 16.2 cm
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020. -
Archaeological Books - Books on Sakkara in Ancient Egypt
1956-1991 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Jean-Philippe Lauer - Saqqara: The Royal Cemetery of Memphis. Excavations and Discoveries since 1850 - London, 1976, hardback with dustwrapper, 1976; M. Zakaria Goneim - The Buried Pyramid - London, 1956, hardback, 155 pp; Jean-Philippe Lauer - Les Pyramides de Sakkara - Cairo, 6th edition, 1991, card covers, 145 pp; Jean-Philippe Lauer - Les Pyramides de Sakkara - Cairo, 1963, 32 pp, 74 plates; Étienne Drioton & Jean-Philippe Lauer - Sakkarah - The Monuments of Zoser - Cairo, 1939, card covers, 24pp, 66 plates. 2.02 kg total, 20.1 x 13 - 25.5 x 19.5 cm
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020. -
Archaeological Books - Books on Ancient Egypt
1972-2015 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Miroslav Verner - Abusir: Realm of Osiris - New York, 2002, hardback with dustwrapper, 248 pp; Piotr Bienkowski & Angela Tooley - Gifts of the Nile - London, 1995, card covers, 130 pp; Ann Rosalie David - A Year in the Life of Egypt - Barnsley, 2015, hardback with dustwrapper, 263 pp; John Ray - Reflections of Osiris - London, 2001, hardback with dustwrapper,176 pp; Normandi Ellis (trans.) - Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead - Grand Rapids, 1988, card covers, 227 pp; E.A. wallis-Budge - The Judgement of the Dead and the Weighing of the Heart Before Osiris - Edmonds, 1989, card covers, 40 pp; Paul Brunton - A Search in Secret Egypt - London, 1972 edition, card covers. 297 pp. 4.42 kg total, 20.8 x 14.5 - 32 x 24 cm
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020.
