Egypt And Egyptology Books from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large trade paperback. 174 pages. Bibliography. Profusely illustrated with monochrome and color photographs. First edition. A catalog of the American exhibition, the largest to date at the time, to include 55 pieces and… Read more about this item

London, UK: New Holland Pub Ltd, 2006. Hardcover, quarto sized volume bound in black cloth boldly lettered in white and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 280 pages. Bibliography, Index. Copiously illustrated with color photographs, line drawings and diagrams, and map end-papers. First edition, first printing with full number line. A survey of the history of 2,000… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Hardcover, light brown cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 279 pages. Select Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs in color and black and white. First American edition. No previous ownership marks. A narrative history of Cleopatra's life and times against the backdrop of Roman expansion and Ptolemaic decline. A… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, 1971. Trade paperback. 570 pages. Index. Dover catalog appended. Translated by H.M. Tirard. New introduction by Jon Manchip White. Illustrated with 441 drawings and half-tones. The present edition is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the English translation first originally published in 1894. No previous ownership marks.… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Trade paperback. 512 pages. Index. Dover catalog appended. Illustrated with drawings, half-tones and hieroglyphs. First printing of the unabridged republication of the second, revised and enlarged edition, as published by Cambridge University Press in 1925. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A very clean, square,… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1990. Volume I only of a two volume set, complete in itself. Large format hardcover, quarto. Red buckram in non clipped dust-jacket. 421pp., Bibliography, Indexes. Extensively illustrated throughout with photographs and large folding map at rear. Full title: "Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the… Read more about this item

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. Volume II only of a two volume set, complete in itself. Large format hardcover, quarto. Red buckram in non clipped dust-jacket. 526pp., Bibliography, Indexes. Extensively illustrated throughout with photographs and large folding map at rear. Full title: "Scepter of Egypt: A… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 288pp., Glossary, Annotated Bibliography, Index. Foreword by Zahi Hawass. Illustrated with charts, tqables, drawings and photographs, several in color. First edition, first printing. An examination of the biulding techniques, materials, tools, organizational skills and technologies that allowed for the contruction of the Great Pyramid. … Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Trade paperback. 570pp., Index. Translated by H.M. Tirard. New introduction by Jon Manchip White. 411 illustrations. First edition, first printing by this publisher, an unabridged and unaltered republication of the English translation originally published in 1894 by MacMillan and Company, London. No previous ownership marks. A… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 1981. Small quarto hardcover, blue cloth in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 293pp., Select Bibliography, Picture Credits, Index. Extensively illustrated with monochrome photographs and 20 pages of color plates. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sqaure, tightly bound copy. Fine in a very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to -… Read more about this item

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 198pp, 8 illustrations, reprint of the original edition, first published in 1899. A clean, square, tight copy with no previous ownership marks of any kind. Dust-jacket shows mild rubbing to extremities and small… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Large trade paperback. 570pp., Index. Publishers' unpaginated catalog appended at rear. Extensively illustrated with 411 drawings and half-tones. Translated by H.M. Tirand, new introduction by Jon Manchip White. No previous ownership marks, no underlinging, writing or marking, no spine crease. A clean, sound, tightly bound copy with… Read more about this item

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1969. Oversize trade paperback 256pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. No name, no book-plate, no writing, etc. Several small spots to fore-edge of bulked sheets, else a clean, well bound copy with all pages firmly attched. Light general wear. Good.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Marseilles: F. Detaille, 1939. Large format softcover with image of Sphinx printed on front cover. 155pp. Illustrated with full page sepia photos and tipped in color plates. The report of a sojourn to Egypt made in the year 1933 and published just before the outbraek of the Second World war. The author was a member of the… Read more about this item

New York: The New York Times, 1924. Quarto, periodical bound in printed wrappers. Contains a contempory account of of the discovery of the Tomb of King Tut-enkh-Amon, with an intorduction by Howard Carter. among other articles. Special 16 page section containing 24 brillant color plates extant. Several contemporary news clipping regarding the discovery also laid in.… Read more about this item

New York: Lincoln macveagh/The Dial Press, 1924. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold, in original pictorial dust-jacket. 190pp., Index. With 48 wood-cuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton, and 25 other illustratrions, including frontispeice in full color. End-papers lightly toned and dust-jacket shows light scuffing to spine and some marks to rear panel, minor… Read more about this item

London: R. Dampier, J. Panton, T. Davidson, W. Nixon, A. Manson, H. Newton, S. Darnton, and M. Oldman, 1757. Hardcover, rebound in modern tan cloth with title and author in gold lettering on spine. New endpapers. 300pp. Printed without illustrations or map. An important primary souce. Chronicles Norden's voyage through Egypt in the years 1737-1738,… Read more about this item

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1925. Hardcover, blue cloth sans dust-jacket. 324pp., Index. 32 illustrations of which 4 in color are by Constance N. Baikie. No name, no book-plate, etc. Mild sporadic foxing mostly to margins, text and illustrations clean. Cloth shows light wear from age, else a sturdy, well bound copy. Good.. First… Read more about this item

London: Martin Hopkinson and Company Ltd, 1924. Hardcover, Beige cloth spine over drab boards with printed paper spine and cover labels [extra labels tipped in at rear]. T.e.g. 112pp. Translated by George Rawilson; preface and notes by E.H. Blakeney. Former owner's book-plate inside front cover. Text block untrimmed, printed on heavy laid paper. Spine label… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. Hardcover, peach cloth ruled in gold at extremities and lettered in gold on spine and front board. Author and title inside decoratively ruled box on front board, stamped in gold red and green. T.E.G. 325pp., Index. Profusely illustrated with line drawings and photographs. First American edition of this classic… Read more about this item