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LOT 1030
Archaeological Books - The Land of The Pharaohs
1887 A.D.
11 1/4 x 8 in. (977 grams, 28.3 x 20.5 cm).
Rev. Samuel Manning (Revised by Richard Lovett) - London, 1887, cloth covers, 224 pp gilt foredge. [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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Archaeological Books - An Atlas of Ancient Egypt and Other Maps
1894 A.D. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £33
Egypt Exploration Fund - An Atlas of Ancient Egypt - London, 1894, cloth covers, 8 fold-out maps; offered with five loose folding maps (Historic Mediterranean, Early Civilizations in the Middle East, Cultural Map of the Middle East, Nile Valley, Lands of the Bible Today). 746 grams total, 22.7 x 14.5 - 28.4 x 22 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 - Ancient Egyptian Books on Writing and Literature
1958-1998Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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. 2.76 kg total, 15.7 x 12.7 - 29 x 23 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 - Ancient Egyptian Research Discoveries - Various Titles
1928-1982 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3
C. Robichon & A. Varille - Description Sommair du Temple Primitif de Médamoud - Cairo, 1940, card covers, 26 pp, fold-out map; W.B. Emery - Saqqara and the Dynastic Race (Inaugural Lecture) - London, 1952, card covers, 12 pp; W.B. Emer - A Funerary Repast in an Egyptian Tomb of the Archaic Period - Leiden, 1962, card covers, 14 pp, 9 plates; Raymond O. Faulkner - A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian: Addenda and Corrigenda - Oxford, 1972, card covers, 7 pp; Egyptian Studies Association Publication No.1 - The Pre-Dynastic of Hierakonpolis - Cairo University, 1982, card covers, 15 pp, fold-out map; Discoveries in the Northern Fayum (offprint from Egyptian Gazette 28th February 1928) - card covers, 8 pp. 726 grams total, 22.1 x 14.5 - 26.5 x 19.5 in.
From the private collection of the late Mrs Belinda Ellison, a long time member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, c.1940-2020.
