ANCIENT EGYPT [The Story of the Nations]

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Ninth edition - published in The Story of the Nations series. No date. Circa 1897. Colour folding map of Egypt tipped-in to the fore. Illustrated with fifty black and white steel-engraved illustrations including full-page frontispiece showing: Great Hall of Columns at Karnak. ***Very good in dark green decorative cloth-covered boards, with pictorial front board and spine with gilt titles to spine and front board. Red ink handwritten publication date '1897' added to the bottom of title-page. Vintage informative inscription in blue fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper: 'This book was in the library of Mr John Hunter of Bearsden, Glasgow (died 1928). Another name in blue fountain pen ink to top of front free endpaper and a red initial: J. White. Small name and address label to bottom of front pastedown (John White, Lincoln) ***Loosely inserted and left in situ [can be removed if wished] are some interesting 1992 inserts from a holiday cruise to Egypt used as bookmarks, a boarding pass, Luxor museum ticket, a letter to the owner and his wife from a friend from 1992, Hayes and Jarvis Queen Isis Nile Cruise, Giza Pyramid pass. ***Head and tail of spine and corners of boards rubbed. Edges of boards rubbed. Offsetting to front and rear front endpapers and pastedowns. Pages clean. Spine tight. 202mm x 138mm. xixi prelim pages including list of contents and illustrations plus 408 pages including double-page map of The Fayoum showing the Birket-el-Keroun and the artificial lake 'Moeris' and index to rear. ***Contents: The Land of Egypt; The People of Egypt; The Dawn of History; The Pyramid Builders; The Rise of Thebes to Power, and the Early Theban tribes; The Good Amenemhat and his Works; Abraham in Egypt; The Great Invasion - The Hyksos or Shepherd Kings - Joseph and Apepi; How the Hyksos were Expelled from Egypt; The First Great Warrior King, Thothmes I; Queen Hatasu and her Merchant Fleet; Thothmes the Third and Amenhotep the Second; Amen-Hotep III and his Great Works - the Vocal Memnon; Khuenaten and the Disk-Worshippers; Beginning of the Decline of Egypt; Menephthah I, The Pharaoh of the Exodus; The Decline of Egypt under the later Ramessides; The Priest-Kings - Pinetem and Solomon; Shishak and his Dynasty; The Land Shadowing with Wings - Egypt under the Ethiopians; The Fight over the carcase - Ethiopia v. Assyria; The Corpse comes to Life again - Psamatik I and his son, Neco; The Later Saite Kings - Psamatik II, Apries, and Amasis; The Persian Conquest; Three Desperate Revolts; Nectanebo I.- A Last Gleam of Sunshine; The Light Goes out in Darkness. ***An attractive late Victorian pictorial decorative antiquarian history book, profusely illustrated with one hundred and sixty steel-engravings in the text and full-page throughout. All illustrations present, as called for. Although a very heavy book for its size, the binding is not loose or shaken as is often found with such books. ***A nice collectable copy, with extra ephemera as described above included. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de ref. del artículo 4745x

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