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A Lucas Ancient Egyptian Materials & Industries
London Edward Arnold 1934 Second Revised Edition. Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo Its Heavy, So a Bit More Postage. Inscribed By the Author
Lucas was a former director of the chemical department and chemical department of antiquities Egypt. 446 pp, bound in orange cloth, Lucas examins everything from alcohol to anointing, eye shadow to oil lamps, mummies to medicine, & so much more. spine is a little faded, slightly edge worn.
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67.50 EUR
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Angus Buchanan Sahara
London John Murray 1926 First Edition Hard Back Decorated Boards Very Good 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Profusely Illustrated With Photographs
a very scarce book on the Sahara with 78 plates a map small drawings and a diagram 301 pp. a fascinating read.
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60.30 EUR
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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Sinai and Palestine, in Connection with Their History
London John Murray 1856 First Edition Hard Back 1/2 Leather Almost Fine 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall illustrated
Finely bound in dark brown morocco leather with gilded raised bands gitl titles, marbled boards , edges & endpapers, seven coloured folding maps & four woodcuts, some underling in pencil and a tiny amount of foxing as is often found. Stanley traveled to Egypt & the middle east the previous year, he became Dean of Westminster abbey. This copy is from the private library of The macdermot Prince of Connaught, Coolavin house Co Sligo. Rare.
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243.00 EUR
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David Garnnett The Letters of T.E. Lawrence
New York Doubleday & Company Inc 1939 First Hard Back Blue Cloth Very Good No Dj 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall illustrated
A ggod tight clean copy boards and spine a trifle faded a very small dull white mark to the front board , 16 plates 4 maps as called for, gift inscription to f.e.p. 896pp.
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33.30 EUR
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E Baldwin Smith Egyptian Architecture as a Cultural Expression
New York D Appleton 1938 First Edition Hard Cover Fair No Jacket 4to, Heavy, So Extra Post. Ills By the Author
This copy has the book plate of Lorenzo S Winslow signed by him stating he was the architect at the White House June 1946. In 1948 Winslow built a balcony on the south portico for Harry Truman. This was hardly completed when he noticed the whole building gave signs of collapsing. The brick that Hoban had used to line the stone facade was being stressed to its limits. Winslow began a full renovation of the White House, which, as one inspector put it " was standing up purely from habit".Book has bumped & a little frayed corners, spine faded & pulled at top. Book is scarce
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76.50 EUR
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E. A. Wallis Budge Books on Egypt and Chaldaea
London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co 1905 First Edition Decorated Cloth Very Good 8vo 8volumes Heavy So Extra Post. Ills
1 vol by L W King =Assyrian language. 8 by Budge =The Egyptian Heavan & Hell 3 vols , The Decrees of Memphis & Cornopus 3 vols, The Book of Kings 2 vols .
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175.50 EUR
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George Sale , (translator) The KORAN
London William Tegg & Co 1857 Early Translation. A New Edition. Hard Back Buckrum Very Good 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
An early translation of the Koran with a frontice fold out view of the Mosque at Mecca & fold out geneological tree`s of the Arabs & a folding map of Arabia. 516 pp. Boards are faded with blind decorations.
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112.50 EUR
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Harold Ingrams Arabia and the Isles
London John Murray 1942 First Edition Hard Back Hession Coloured Clo Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall illustrated
A scarce book on travel in the middle east. Gift inscription from a former owner.367pp. Large fold out map.
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15.30 EUR
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