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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. N/A (illustrator). 2002. book People, London. 2002. Hard cover. Book Condition : Very good to near fine, appears little read. Superb photographs throughout Jacket has mild shelf wear. Heavy book may incur extra postage. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #BY014967. N/A.

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Softcover. Yellow and gray illus. wraps, French flaps, 383 pp., many BW illus. "Ths history of obelisks is a story of technical achievement, imperial conquest, Christian piety and triumphalism, egotism, scholarly brilliance, political hubris, bigoted nationalism, democratic self-assurance, Modernist austerity, and Hollywood kitsch -- in short, the story of Western civilization." (flap). VG- (Page edges slightly soiled in spots; otherwise quite nice.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book has large French flaps. A history of obelisks and looking at why they exist. Slight edge wear otherwise very good.

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Burndy Library, Cambridge, MA, 2009. First edition. In-8, 383 pages. Original softcover, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Architecture and techniques, Sculpture, Painting, Music & Art.

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. 2009 edition. An as new copy.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 383 pp. Fine. Nearly every empire worthy of the name - from ancient Rome to the United States - has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks - giant standing stones, invented in ancient Egypt as sacred objects - serve no practical purpose. For most of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-shaped buildings rose as well - the Washington Monument being a notable example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries - what they meant to Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. like new hardcover volumes 56/57 clean text. tight binding. very little wear. ISBN matches listing Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. like new hardcover volume 58. clean text. tight binding. very little wear. ISBN matches listing Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. like new hardcover. clean text. tight binding. very little wear. ISBN matches listing Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiv, 431 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-411) and index. Contents: The memory of Egypt -- Egyptian monuments from antiquity to the Middle Ages -- Humanists and hieroglyphs -- Egyptian monuments for Renaissance princes -- Sacred writings : Hermes Trismegistus and hieroglyphic epigraphy -- Egyptian ancestors : Alexander VI, Pinturicchio, and Annius of Viterbo -- Egypt in Venice : Francesco Colonna and Gentile Bellini -- Cleopatra and the second Julius : Egypt and the dream of empire in High Renaissance Rome -- Egyptian lives (and afterlives) in the Rome of the Medici popes -- Hieroglyphic studies in the High Renaissance -- The scepter of Osiris : Egyptian mysteries in the Missal of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna -- Conclusion : The Egyptian in the mirror. Subjects: Egyptology Italy History; Renaissance Italy; Antiquities; Egyptian revival (Art) Italy 15th century; 16th century; Art, Renaissance Italy Egyptian influences. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiv, 431 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-411) and index. Contents: The memory of Egypt -- Egyptian monuments from antiquity to the Middle Ages -- Humanists and hieroglyphs -- Egyptian monuments for Renaissance princes -- Sacred writings : Hermes Trismegistus and hieroglyphic epigraphy -- Egyptian ancestors : Alexander VI, Pinturicchio, and Annius of Viterbo -- Egypt in Venice : Francesco Colonna and Gentile Bellini -- Cleopatra and the second Julius : Egypt and the dream of empire in High Renaissance Rome -- Egyptian lives (and afterlives) in the Rome of the Medici popes -- Hieroglyphic studies in the High Renaissance -- The scepter of Osiris : Egyptian mysteries in the Missal of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna -- Conclusion : The Egyptian in the mirror. Subjects: Egyptology Italy History; Renaissance Italy; Antiquities; Egyptian revival (Art) Italy 15th century; 16th century; Art, Renaissance Italy Egyptian influences. 1 Kg.

Hard Cover w/slipcase. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Neil Baker, Sam Stone, Edward M. Erdelac, Christine Morgan, Scott R. Jones, Cody Goodfellow (illustrator). First Edition. First edition / first printing. Number 36 of 200 copies signed by 7 of the contributors. Book is in bound in leather and in fine (appears unread) condition with a fine unclipped dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper, also includes a slipcase in fine condition. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks. Signed.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Publisher's original illustrated boards with yellow titles to the upper board and spine. With 30 black and white illustrations throughout by Jeremy Zerfoss, Mike Dubisch, Yves Tourigny, Nick Gucker, Justine Jones, Sishir Bommakanti, Luke Spooner, Michael Bukowski, and Dave Felton. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Signed by the editors and with an original signed hand-drawn illustration in black ink by the cover artist Nick Gucker on the title page. A collection of 29 illustrated short stories of a Cthulhu-Mythos-meets-space-opera nature. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s).

First edition first impression 2009. 384 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Near fine. Spine uncreased. The many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries, from Ancient Egypt (which invented them) to twentieth-century America (which put them in Hollywood epics). Nearly every empire worthy of the name-from ancient Rome to the United States-has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks-giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects-serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-shaped buildings rose as well-the Washington Monument being a noted example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries-what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years. In each culture obelisks have taken on new meanings and associations. To the Egyptians, the obelisk was the symbol of a pharaoh's right to rule and connection to the divine. In ancient Rome, obelisks were the embodiment of Rome's coming of age as an empire. To nineteenth-century New Yorkers, the obelisk in Central Park stood for their country's rejection of the trappings of empire just as it was itself beginning to acquire imperial power. And to a twentieth-century reader of Freud, the obelisk had anatomical and psychological connotations. The history of obelisks is a story of technical achievement, imperial conquest, Christian piety and triumphalism, egotism, scholarly brilliance, political hubris, bigoted nationalism, democratic self-assurance, Modernist austerity, and Hollywood kitsch-in short, the story of Western civilization.