A Guide to the Antiquities of Anceint Egypt from Abydos to the Sudan Frontier

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Red cloth with gilt titles and figure to spine, gilt titles to front, no jacket, large 12mo. 1st edition. xxiii+594pp.+31pp. ads (ad pages uncut). Index. Maps and plans throughout. Fascinating non-authorial gift inscription in fine hand to upper corner ffep ("For Lucy -- for a kindness in the desert, from Mrs. McFaddeau [?] Luxor, Egypt 1912"). VG. Light soil and mild rubbing to cloth, somewhat heavier to spine, with gilt all bright and unrubbed. Cloth overall bright and sharp. Very mild bumping with touches of surface loss but no damage to tips of corners; softening with mild fraying to extreme spine and lower hinge ends. Shelving soil to upper page edges. Light foxing to page edges, somewhat heavier to endpapers but none within. Binding square and moderately tight, with slight separatipon just beginning pp.208-209 (all pages holding fine). Pages only gently toned. Sporadic, rather small and relatively rare pencil emendations/tick marks in chapters on Abydos and Dendereh. N° de ref. del artículo 007643

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