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Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB
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8vo. [5], viii-xix, [4], 4-325, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, gold, red, and green decorations on the front board, gilt lettering and gilt decoration on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Amelia B. Edwards and with numerous in-text and full-page reproductions of black and white phtotographs. The illustrations depict archaic Greek artifacts with ancient Egyptian objects from the Old Kingdom. Hellenistic and Roman archaeological remains are also depicted. Here Edwards discusses Tanis, Thebes, Beni-Hasan, and Karnak. Her history of Egypt is taken from a series of lectures she delivered in the United States, with added notes and references. Oxford DNB, Deborah Manley, "Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford (1831–1892)". A novelist, journalist, and scholar, Amelia Edwards was a true Renaissance woman. In the latter part of her life she traveled to Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, and Syria. While in Egypt she excavated a temple and recorded her observations of the landscape, which she would later publish as watercolours with accompanying text in A Thousand Miles Up the Nile. She and egyptologist R.S. Poole founded the Egypt Exploration Fund (later named Society) in 1882, for the purpose of raising funds for the proper archaeological excavation of Egyptian Historical Sites. She was instrumental in bringing scientific methods to the excavation and historical analysis of Egyptian antiquties. Some rubbing to the boards' edges, a bookplate on the front pastedown. A small split to the paper on the book's rear hinge, binding remains secure.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
- Author
- Edwards, Amelia B.
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, New York
- Publication year
- 1892
- Condition
- Very Good or better
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Classical Antiquity, History
Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB
Madison, WI, U.S.A.
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