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Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, including their private life, government, laws, arts, manufactures, religion, and early history; derived form a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors. Illustrated by drawings of those subjects... In three volumes. SECOND EDITION (1842) [with] A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians.... 1841. Two volumes and a volume of plates. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1842; 1841. Octavos. xxxvi, 406; xxxvi, 446; xxiv, 404pp. The 'First Series' containing more than four hundred illustrations, including seventeen lithographed plates (several in color and/or folding). xxx, 444; xxxvi, 483; The 'Second Series' containing more than five hundred illustrations (again, from woodcuts & vignettes) in its first two volumes; the third volume of this 'second series' with more than seventy plates - many of then folding, and several of them richly printed in colors. With a 37p 'Index'
by Wilkinson, Gardner
1841 (click for more details)Alphabetum Romanum edited by Giovanni Mardersteig. Ltd to 400 copies in English of which this is No. 355, bound in quarter morocco
by Feliciano, Felice
Verona : Officina Bodoni , 1960 (click for more details)Prolusions; or, select pieces of antient poetry. . .
by Capell, Edward
London : Printed by Dexter Leach for J. and R. Tonson , 1760 (click for more details)Histoire universelle dupuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a present. Traduite de l'Anglois. 46 vols. , 4to. Contemporary quarter calf, gilt
by Societe de gens de lettres
Amsterdam & Leipzig 1802 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
Catalogue 49: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Autographs in Science & Medicine
Extensively illustrated catalogue of 48 rare and unusual items, available online in PDF and Flash (magazine) format. Published Spring 2014.