dover publications edition facsimile (4 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Fair. Alonzo Hartwell Ilustrador. Facsimile. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. Facsimile Ed. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. small brown cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. wear along the top edge. top edge of spine missing couple of tiny pieces. spine sun faded. pen scratch and sticker shadow on front. not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 12th impression. facsimile reprint of the 1910 edition. viii+246p. hieroglyphics throughout. some egyptian text extracts with transliteration and english translation. ancient history. ancient literature. ancient egypt. religion. mythology. foreign languages. ~ The ancient Egyptians expressed their ideas in writing by means of a large number of picture signs, known as Hieroglyphics. They began to use them for this purpose more than seven thousand years ago, and they were employed uninterruptedly until about 100 BC, that is to say, until nearly the end of the rule of the Ptolemies over Egypt. It is hardly probable that the hieroglyphic system of writing was invented in Egypt, and evidence indicates that it was brought there by certain invaders who came from north~east or central Asia; they settled down in the valley of the Nile, somewhere between Memphis on the north and Thebes on the south, and gradually established their civilization and religion in their new home. Little by little the writing spread to the north and to the south, until at length hieroglyphics were employed, for state purposes at least, from the coast of the Mediterranean to the most southern portion of the Island of Meroe, a tract of country over 2,000 miles long. This book is intended to form an easy introduction to the study of the Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions, and was prepared in answer to many requests made both in Egypt and in England.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Hbk, 4to, profusely illustr throughout, dj price-clipped with faint sunning to the spine, else near fine and now in protective sleeve, internally the text appears unused, excellent, clean, tight and unmarked, as new.