Aldred, C., Egypt to the end of the Old Kingdom, London, 1992, 143pp, card covers, colour and monochrome; Grajetzki, W., The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, London, 2006, 208 pp, card covers, monochrome; Schulz, R., Seidel, M. (eds), Egypt. The World of the Pharaohs, Köln, 1998, 538 pp, hardback, colour and monochrome; Shaw, I. (ed.), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford, 2000. (signed by Ian Shaw), 512 pp, hardback with dust jacket, colour and monochrome. 5.96 kg total, 15.5 x 23.5 - 28 x 32 cm



Ex libris a Hertfordshire gentleman.

E.L.B. Terrace & H.G. Fischer - Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Cairo Museum - London, 1970, hardback with cloth covers, 188 pp, colour; C. Rossi - The Pyramids and the Sphinx - Cairo, 2005, card covers, 160 pp, colour; M. Page-Gasser &A.B. Wiese - Ägypten Augenblick der Ewigkeit - Mainz, 1998, hardback 340 pp, colour; The Art of Ancient Egypt - London, 1940, hardback, library binding, 22 pp, 333 colour and monochrome plates; Royal Academy of Arts - 5000 Years of Egyptian Art - London, 1962, card covers, 46 pp, 40 monochrome plates, fold-out map; R.A. Fazzinin et al - Art for Eternity: Masterworks from Ancient Egypt - Brooklyn, 1999, card covers, 160 pp, colour; W. Stenson Smith - Ancient Egypte - Boston, 1960, card covers, 215 pp, monochrome. 5.66 kg total, 23 x 15 - 27.5 x 20 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

P.F. Houlihan - The Animal World of the Pharaohs - London, 1996, hardback with dustwrapper, 245 pp, colour and monochrome; C. Hobson - The World of the Pharaohs - New York, 1987, card covers, 192 pp, colour; C. Hobson - The World of the Pharaohs - New York, 1997 reprint, card covers, 192 pp, colour; A.C. Brackman - The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen - New York, 1976, hardback with dustwrapper, 197 pp; H. Carter - The Tomb of Tutankhamen - London, 1954, hardback with dustwrapper, 237 pp, monochrome; C. Desroches-Noblecourt - Life and Death of a Pharaoh: Tutankhamen - New York, 1963, hardback with dustwrapper, 312 pp. colour and monochrome; N. Reeves & R.H. Wilkinson - The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Trasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs - London, 1997 reprint, hardback with dustwrapper, 224 pp, colour and monochrome. 6.2 kg total, 23.5 x 16.2 - 29 x 22.3 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Large-format engraved plate illustrating amulets of various types (figures of Bes and Pataikos, multiple wedjat, Taweret with dorsal pillar, etc.), from the book series La Description de l'Egypte published after the French army's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801), Book A, Volume V, plate 88; mounted in a modern glazed frame. 3 kg total, 70.6 x 53 cm including frame



Private collection, London, UK.

Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte; published between 1809 and 1828. Just 1,000 copies were distributed to various institutions, printed on laid paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark. The book is subtitled Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’Armée française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l’Empereur Napoléon le Grand (Gathering of observations and discoveries which were made in Egypt during the expedition of the French army, published on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great). It was the world's first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to the remains of ancient Egypt.

Comprising two triangular pieces, cut and polished on several sides, probably recycled material mined in ancient Roman times between the 1st and 5th centuries A.D. 195 grams total, 56-58 mm



Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.

Mons Porphyrites (today Jabal Abu Dukhkhan) is the mountainous site of a group of ancient quarries in the Red Sea Hills of the inhospitable eastern desert in Egypt, a five-day trip from the Nile during Roman times. They were discovered by Caius Cominus Leugas in 18 A.D., and during the Roman Empire, the mines officially belonged to the emperor and were the only known source of the Imperial Porphyry, Mons Porphyrites. This dark purple stone was associated with royalty and used for prestigious sculpture and architecture. The location of the mines was lost sometime in the 5th century and rediscovered in the early 19th century. Excavations in the area have revealed the well-preserved quarries and the dwelling places of the quarrymen, and also thousands of ostraca have been discovered containing messages that provide details of how the quarrying took place, and of how the highly skilled quarrymen ordered their food.

Head of Athena with profile eye to right, wearing disc earring, pearl necklace and a crested Attic helmet adorned with three olive leaves and a pi-style palmette / ΑΘΕ, owl standing to right, head facing the viewer, olive sprig with berry and crescent moon in upper left field, all within incuse square. Van Alfen pl. 11; Van Alfen, Mechanisms, Group III.A.1, Fig. 3 = Buttrey Type X. 16.59gr, 24mm, 9h.

Near Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Laureate head of Zeus-Ammon to right / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with open wings standing to left on thunderbolt; monogram above Galatian shield in left field, monogram between legs. Cf. CPE B180; cf. Svoronos 553. 14.74gr, 28mm, 12h.

Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing tainia with basileion / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle, with closed wings, standing to left on thunderbolt; Λ between legs. CPE B249; Svoronos 481; SNG Copenhagen -. 22.64gr, 28mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ], eagle with wings spread standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, Galatian shield between two monograms; Λ between legs; c/m: incuse trident. CPE B190; Svoronos 581; SNG Copenhagen 129. 15.01gr, 26mm, 12h.

Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Laureate head of Zeus to right / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ [ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ], eagle with wings spread standing to left on thunderbolt; to left, Galatian shield between two monograms; Λ between legs; c/m: incuse trident. CPE B190; Svoronos 581; SNG Copenhagen 129. 14.17gr, 25mm, 1h.

Near Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis around neck / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, draped bust of Libya to right, wearing taenia; double cornucopiae beneath chin. CPE B483; Svoronos 857. 3.30gr, 21mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Head of Isis to right, wearing grain ear wreath / ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle standing to left on thunderbolt, head to right, cornucopia over shoulder. Svoronos 1238; cf. SNG Copenhagen 256-259. 3.48gr, 18mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine.

Acquired on the UK art market, early 2000s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.