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Published by New York: [1873?], Dodd, Mead & Company, 1873
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. xiii, [1], 458 p.: frontis. (great palace to Hatra, colored), 2 folding maps, 30 plans and text-figures; 23 cm. Gilt top. Good ex-lib. orig. olive brown cloth. Chips from backstrip.
Published by Dodd, Mead Company, New York
Seller: Books at yeomanthefirst, Folkestone, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 458 p.: frontispiece. (Great palace to Hatra, coloured with tissue guard intact), 2 folding maps, 30 plans and text-figures; 23 cm. Condition: Good. Boards clean, some light edge, corner wear, bottom corner of rear board has cloth missing, spine ends lightly frayed, light pencilled number 10 to inside front board, contents toned but otherwise unmarked and free from previous owner?s names or inscriptions. Binding sound. No date, circa 1873.
Published by 'Termino Michaelis Anni MDCCCLXVIII.' Michaelmas Term, 1868
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
On one side of an 11.5 x 18.5 cm slip of grey paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with minor crease at foot. Reads (with manuscript text in square brackets): '[Hutchison Robertus e Coll. Exon.] | Termino [Michjaelis] Anni [MDCCCLXVIII.] | prout Statuta requirunt Examinatus in Literis Humanioribus in [IIIam] Classem relatus est. | Ita testamur { | [Georgius Rawlinson | Fred G. Walker | G. E. Thorley | G W Capes] | } Examinatores Publici in LIteris Humanioribus.' Thorley's1874-5 Lit. Hum. mark-book appears to be the earliest extant.
Published by University of Oxford. 'Die Xmo Mensis December. Anni MDCCCLXVIII.' 10 December, 1868
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
On one side of a 10.5 x 16.5 cm slip of grey paper. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads (with manuscript text in square brackets): '[Hutchison Robertus e Coll. Exon.] | Die [Xmo] Mensis [Decembr.] Anni [MDCCCLXVIII.] | prout Statuta requirunt Examinatus in Literis Humanioribus et in Rudimentis Religionis satisfecit nobis Examinatoribus. | Ita testatur { [Georgius Rawlinson | Fred. G. Walker | G. E. Thorley | G W Capes] } Examinatores Publici in Literis Humanioribus.' Thorley's1874-5 Lit. Hum. mark-book appears to be the earliest extant.
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, London, 1897
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. 5th or later Edition. Ninth edition - published in The Story of the Nations series. No date. Circa 1897. Colour folding map of Egypt tipped-in to the fore. Illustrated with fifty black and white steel-engraved illustrations including full-page frontispiece showing: Great Hall of Columns at Karnak. ***Very good in dark green decorative cloth-covered boards, with pictorial front board and spine with gilt titles to spine and front board. Red ink handwritten publication date '1897' added to the bottom of title-page. Vintage informative inscription in blue fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper: 'This book was in the library of Mr John Hunter of Bearsden, Glasgow (died 1928). Another name in blue fountain pen ink to top of front free endpaper and a red initial: J. White. Small name and address label to bottom of front pastedown (John White, Lincoln) ***Loosely inserted and left in situ [can be removed if wished] are some interesting 1992 inserts from a holiday cruise to Egypt used as bookmarks, a boarding pass, Luxor museum ticket, a letter to the owner and his wife from a friend from 1992, Hayes and Jarvis Queen Isis Nile Cruise, Giza Pyramid pass. ***Head and tail of spine and corners of boards rubbed. Edges of boards rubbed. Offsetting to front and rear front endpapers and pastedowns. Pages clean. Spine tight. 202mm x 138mm. xixi prelim pages including list of contents and illustrations plus 408 pages including double-page map of The Fayoum showing the Birket-el-Keroun and the artificial lake 'Moeris' and index to rear. ***Contents: The Land of Egypt; The People of Egypt; The Dawn of History; The Pyramid Builders; The Rise of Thebes to Power, and the Early Theban tribes; The Good Amenemhat and his Works; Abraham in Egypt; The Great Invasion - The Hyksos or Shepherd Kings - Joseph and Apepi; How the Hyksos were Expelled from Egypt; The First Great Warrior King, Thothmes I; Queen Hatasu and her Merchant Fleet; Thothmes the Third and Amenhotep the Second; Amen-Hotep III and his Great Works - the Vocal Memnon; Khuenaten and the Disk-Worshippers; Beginning of the Decline of Egypt; Menephthah I, The Pharaoh of the Exodus; The Decline of Egypt under the later Ramessides; The Priest-Kings - Pinetem and Solomon; Shishak and his Dynasty; The Land Shadowing with Wings - Egypt under the Ethiopians; The Fight over the carcase - Ethiopia v. Assyria; The Corpse comes to Life again - Psamatik I and his son, Neco; The Later Saite Kings - Psamatik II, Apries, and Amasis; The Persian Conquest; Three Desperate Revolts; Nectanebo I.- A Last Gleam of Sunshine; The Light Goes out in Darkness. ***An attractive late Victorian pictorial decorative antiquarian history book, profusely illustrated with one hundred and sixty steel-engravings in the text and full-page throughout. All illustrations present, as called for. Although a very heavy book for its size, the binding is not loose or shaken as is often found with such books. ***A nice collectable copy, with extra ephemera as described above included. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.