Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque, Volume II (only)

Ebers G. ; Clara Bell [trans.]; S. Birch [intro.]

Published by Cassell and Company, Limited, London, 1887

About this Item

22/ 382 pages; 374 illustrations; various illustrators. Volume II of Georg Ebers' informative and illustrated history of Ancient Egypt, translated by Clara Bell, with notes by Samuel Birch. Volume II of a two-volume work in the publisher's original Half leather(leather min. rubbed), with pictorial gilt to the spine. An important history of Ancient Egypt by Georg Ebers (1837-1898), an authority of Egyptology. He was best known for his purchase of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest Egyptian medical documents in the world. This work is translated from the original German into English by Clara Bell, an important translator of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an introduction and notes by the British Egyptologist and antiquarian Samuel Birch (1813-1885). Profusely illustrated throughout with a frontispiece, thirteen plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.Externally, generally smart. Hinges are firml. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean spot. Size: 25,5x33cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque, Volume II (only)
• Publisher: Cassell and Company, Limited, London
• Publication Date: 1887
• Binding: Half leather with leather Corn
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bibliophilie
  • Geschichte
  • Reise
  • English Books
  • Afrika
  • Ägyptologie