Egyptian Studies I. Varia
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Loosely inserted is a newspaper obituary of the author (1923-2006): 'Egyptologist whose meticulous observations illuminated the study of hieroglyphic writing'. More
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. Loosely inserted is a newspaper obituary of the author (1923-2006): 'Egyptologist whose meticulous observations illuminated the study of hieroglyphic writing'. More
Stockholm, B.A. Hjorth & Co., 1929. Loosely inserted is price list (September 1932; quarto, 6 pages, folded down the centre), and a supplementary leaf advertising spare parts and novelties (1933; left-hand margin torn and crumpled). [3 items]. More
Wellington, New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, 2011. More
London, Thames and Hudson, [1970s] (facsimile edition)/ 1645 and 1654. Number 26 of only 500 copies; with an introduction by R.V. Tooley. More
[Auckland, The Authors, 1937]. Number 11 of only 150 copies of this illustrated book of verse, signed at the foot of the last page by both poet and artist. More
Melbourne, Printed for the Author by McCarron, Bird, 1875. More
Adelaide, [H.M. Martin & Son Ltd], 1958. One of a numbered limited edition (upper limit not stated); this unnumbered copy is out of series. We have previously sold copy number 449 (inscribed to Sir Hubert Mayo), and number 186 (inscribed to Keith Christie-Ling); we have also sold several unsigned and..... More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1978. A history of the 'Copper Kingdom' or 'Copper Triangle' (Kadina, Moonta and Wallaroo) and the Cornish mining families that settled there. More
Sydney, A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1967 (facsimile edition)/ 1847. Number 680 of 1000 copies of this high-quality facsimile. The illustrations comprise views of the fledgling city of Adelaide and outlying settlements, the topography, flora and fauna, and the Indigenous people and their lives. Some 22 of the 60 plates (and..... More
Warminster, Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1973, 1977 and 1978 [all first editions]. A 'collection of religious utterances written inside the large rectangular wooden coffins used for interring the wealthy. They date from the Middle Kingdom, around the first quarter of the second millenium BC and thus help to fill the..... More
London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1999. Sixty-Fourth Excavation Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society. More
London, Egypt Exploration Society, 2001. Sixty-Sixth Excavation Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Society. More
Adelaide, S. Smith & Son Ltd., 1949. More
Prague, Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006. The plates comprise reproductions of the papyrus fragments, with a transcription of the hieroglyphics on the facing page. One of the Excavations of the Czech Institute of Egyptology series. More
London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). 'Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) completed the thirty-seven books of the "Naturalis Historia" in AD 77. The translation by H. Rackham, continued after his death by W.H.S. Jones and D.E. Eichholz, was first published by Harvard University Press in the Loeb Classical..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1998. More
London, Egypt Exploration Society, 1982. More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1977. More
Melbourne, The Hawthorne Press, 1968 (new edition)/ 1960. More
London, The Bodley Head, 1984. More
London, The Religious Tract Society, 1926. More
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1986. More
Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2004 (first edition in English)/ 1998. Translated from the original Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer. More
Adelaide, The Hassell Press, 1950. Loosely inserted is a Mary Martin Bookshop 'Customer's Report' card inscribed and signed in ink by Max Harris, and the original purchase receipt (dated 14 June 1962). More
Adelaide, Rigby, 1972. The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Sir Grenfell and | Lady Price | with much thanks | and many regards | from | Monty | Charles P. Mountford' (the anthropologist Charles Pearcy Mountford, 1890-1976). The recipient, Sir Archibald Grenfell Price (1892-1977), geographer, historian and educationist, has..... More