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‎The Webster Plass collection of African Art. The Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition held in the King Edward VII Galleries of the British Museum, 1953.‎

‎London: British Museum, 1953 in-8, 46 pages, carte, 46 planches hors-texte. Broché, couverture illustrée, très bon état. Avec un envoi de Margaret Plass à l'antiquaire Ernst Ascher.‎

‎The Webster Plass collection of African Art. The Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition held in the King Edward VII Galleries of the British Museum, 1953. (London: British Museum, 1953) [M.C.: Art africain / African Art]‎

‎Flora of West Tropical Africa. The British West African Territories, Liberia, the French and Portuguese Territories South of latitude 18° N. to Lake Chad, and Fernado Po. Second edition revised by R. W. J. Keay. Vol. I.‎

‎London: Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, 1954-1958 in-8, viii-828 pages, carte se dépliant, 201 figures, index. Reliure toile. Ex-libris Edward S. Ayensu.‎

‎Flora of West Tropical Africa. The British West African Territories, Liberia, the French and Portuguese Territories South of latitude 18° N. to Lake Chad, and Fernado Po. Second edition revised by R. W. J. Keay. Vol. I. (London: Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, 1954-1958). [M.C.: Afrique noire, Afrique de l'Ouest, botanique, flore]‎

‎The Book of the Dead. Facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. Printed by Order of the Trustees. Second Edition. + The Book of the Dead. The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. The Egyptian Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Tra... - [THE SPLENDID FACSIMILE OF PAPYRUS ANI]‎

‎British Museum, 1894-95. Folio & 4to. Uncut in two contemporary half morocco bindings with gilt titles to spines. Folio volume: capitals with significant wear. Slight wear to outer hinges and edges of boards. Water stain to bottom of boards, slightly affecting the first five leaves. Internally clean. VII + 37 colored double-page lithographed plates. Text volume: five raised bands and gilt lines to spine. Upper edge of leaves gilt. Spine slightly rubbed, with some wear to capitals. Corners with significant loss of leather. Library stamps to inside of front board, front free endpaper, title page and contents page. Internally clean. CLV, 377 pp.‎

‎Second edition of the plate volume together with the first edition of the text (as it is supposed to be), being the first collected edition of the magnificent British Museum's facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani. The first edition of the plate-volume appeared alone, without the text, in 1890, and in 1894, a second edition of the plate-volume was issued to accompany the first edition of the text. Thus, a uniform set of the entire work originally belonging together will be made up of a second edition of the plate-volume together with the first edition of the text-volume. Produced around 1250 BCE, the lavishly illustrated papyrus of Ani remains one of the most splendid examples of the Book of the Dead. Egyptians compiled an individualized book for certain people upon their death, called the Book of Going Forth by Day, more commonly Book of the Dead, typically containing declarations and spells to help the deceased in the afterlife. The Papyrus of Ani, which is now in the British Museum, is the manuscript compiled for the Theban scribe. ""The scroll was discovered in Luxor in 1888 by Egyptians trading in illegal antiquities. It was acquired by E.A. Wallis Budge... Shortly after Budge first saw the papyrus, Egyptian police arrested several antiquities dealers and sealed up their houses, one of which contained the objects Budge had purchased from the dealers. Budge distracted the guards by offering them a meal while locals tunnelled under the house's walls to retrieve the objects, including the Papyrus of Ani. Stored in several custom tin boxes, the papyrus and other objects Budge had acquired were then smuggled to the principal librarian at the British Museum. Budge was afterward paid a 150GBP ""gratuity"" from the British Treasury on behalf of the British Museum for acquiring the papyrus."" ‎

‎The Genitalia of the Group Noctuidae of the Lepidoptera of the British Islands / The Genitalia of the Group Geometridae of the Lepidoptera of the British Islands / The Genitalia of the Tineid Families of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles / The Genitalia of the British Pyrales with Deltoids and Plumes / The Genitalia of the British Rhopalocera and the Larger Moths.‎

‎1909-1941 vii, 88, xxix, 88, xxii, 116, xiii, 69, 66 p., 32, 48, 68, 29, 21 plates, frontispiece, publisher's cloth. Last part with spine discoloured and with some wear. Library stamps, else a good set of the original edition.Originally six parts were published. This set lacks the Tortricidae (1922). The first two parts are by Pierce alone, the second and third part (of our set) is by Pierce and Metcalfe, and the last part is by Pierce and Beirne. Some of the original parts (there was a reprint edition in the sixties/seventies) are quite scarce now.‎

‎Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the British Museum. Second edition. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. Catalogue of the British bees in the collection of the British Museum. New Issue.‎

‎1891 (2nd ed.) xi, 236 p., 11 plates. Original embossed brown cloth (spine missing). Bookplate on front paste-down, library stamp on title page. Top of spine taped and with a few worm-holes. Working copy onlyThis double titled publication is an "update" after the original series of hymenopterological catalogues of the British Museum collection which were published more than 20 years earlier. This part is the only one published and deals with bees only. 211 species are described and figured. List of British Museum publications bound in the rear. ‎