Lot 41
Ancient Egypt
Museum of Cairo and The Egypt Exploration Fund
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Cairo Museum. [Group of works from the Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire]. Cairo: Imprimerie de L'Institut Francais D'Archéologie Orientale [except first title, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei], 1902-1939. 7 works, folio, contemporary half morocco (Maspero & Gauthier's work in quarter morocco, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, numerous black and white plates from photographs, Manchester Libraries labels and stamps, titles comprise:
Lange, H.O. and H. Schäfer. Grab- Und Denksteine des Mittleren Reichs, Part IV [German]. 1902;
Daressy, M.G. Textes de Dessins Magiques [French], 1903;
Lacau, Pierre. Sarcophages Anterieurs au Nouvel Empire [French], 1904;
Quibell, M.J.E. Tomb of Yuaa and Thuiu [English], 1908;
Daressy, M. Georges. Cercueils des Cachette Royales [French], 1909;
Smith F.R.S., Grafton Elliott. The Royal Mummies [English], 1912;
Maspero, Gaston and Henri Gauthier. Sarcophages des Sarcophages des Époques Persane et Ptolémaïque [French], 1939;
Egypt Exploration Fund. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1894-1907. 5 works, folio, contemporary quarter morocco, black and white plates featuring contemporary photographs, Manchester Libraries labels and stamps, boards blind stamped, titles comprise:
Naville, Edouard [introductory memoir]. The Temple of Deir el Bahari: Its Plan, Its Founders, And Its First Explorers. 1894;
Randall-MacIver, M.A. and A.C. Mace. El Amrah and Abydos, 1899-1901, 1902;
Flinders Petrie, W.M. Abydos, Part I, 1902, 1902;
Flinders Petrie, W.M. Roman Ehnasya (Herakleopolis Magna), 1904, 1905;
Naville, Edouard. The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir El-Bahari, Part I, 1907
The lot sold as seen, not subject to return.
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