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Publicado por Published for the Crystal Palace Company by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857
Librería: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, Estados Unidos de America
To which is added An Introduction to the Study of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. xvi, 282 [1, ads] pp. Color frontispiece and one color plate; engraved text illustrations. 12mo, publisher's blue cloth. Full-page 1863 ink gift inscription; shallow chipping at extremities of the spine; light wear to cloth at edges.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 1878
Librería: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Vols. I-II only. Profusely illustrated from plates and text illustrations; some color; some folding. 8vo, publisher's green gilt cloth. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected by Samuel Birch. Old ink ownership signature in each volume; a little splitting to the (inner) hinges; some use to the extremities of the cloth; both volumes tight and sound; contents fine.
Publicado por John Murray, London, 1878
Librería: Castle Hill Books, Llandrindod Wells, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 3 Volume set of this New, reviesd and Corrected edition, regarded as the best edition of this work. xxx + 510pp, xii +515pp, xi + 528 + publisher's catalogue at end, 72plates, some folding, 643 woodcuts in text, col frontis to vol 1; Large Octavo.
Publicado por John Murray, lONDON, 1878
Librería: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Revised Edition. Three (3) volumes in gilt lettered and decorated navy cloth. Edition revised by Samuel Birch and considered the best edition. 510 pp, 515 pp, 528 pp. Uncut pages in each volume. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white with many fold outs. Foxing to endpapers. Small chips to cloth and splits in volume 3 otherwise this is a near fine unread copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Publicado por London: John Murray, 1878, 1878
Librería: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Reino Unido
The best edition of this keystone work of British Egyptology, carefully revised by Samuel Birch, this copy in an attractive contemporary binding. First published in 1837, The Quarterly Review referred to Wilkinson's minutely detailed and superbly illustrated work as a "restoration to life, as it were, of the ancient Pharaohs, and their subjects". With his meticulous observation and recording of sites (the illustrations are taken from his drawings), Wilkinson (1797-1875) was the first British Egyptologist properly to value the interpretation of Egyptian texts. He "arrived in Egypt on 22 November 1821. He soon became so fascinated with the land that he abandoned all thoughts of an army career and spent the next twelve years there. He accomplished an extraordinary amount of work at most of the major archaeological sites then known in Egypt and recorded them in his numerous notebooks and sketchbooks. His sketches are rendered with an accuracy and consistency that make them valuable evidence for monuments that were damaged or destroyed after he drew them" (ODNB). Birch (1813-1885) entered the British museum in 1836 as an assistant in the department of antiquities, eventually becoming head of the Egyptian and Assyrian branch. Among his numerous contributions to Egyptology, he wrote a hieroglyphical grammar, a dictionary, and a translation of The Book of the Dead. Birch's scrupulous pursuit of linguistic and textual analysis made him the only man capable of undertaking a meaningful revision of The Manners And Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. Working from Wilkinson's extensive notebooks and manuscripts alongside his own original material, Birch much enhanced the original. 3 volumes, octavo (219 x 134 mm). Contemporary tree calf, spines with gilt raised bands, lettering and elaborate gilt decoration in compartments, brown morocco labels, covers bordered with a foliate gilt roll, board edges gilt, blind decoration to turn-ins, marbled endpapers and sides. With 75 plates, some coloured, some folding, text profusely illustrated with woodcuts. Christmas 1883 gift inscription to first blank. Couple of tips lightly worn, minor scuffs to sides, one recoloured, short closed tear to one leaf in vol. II, foxing to endpapers and occasionally to contents, but generally bright and clean. A very good set.