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A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
John Murray, London, 1854. In-16 gr. (mm. 190x125), 2 volumi, tela editoriale, pp. XVI,419; X,438,32 (catalogo editoriale); con circa 500 illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo e una tavola ripiegata fuori testo. Ex libris e segnatura al risguardo anteriore; firma d'appartenenza ai frontespizi, peraltro esemplare ben conservato.
Popular account of the ancient Egyptians. Illustrated with five hundred woodcuts.
New-York : Harper, 1854 Deux volumes in-12, XVI-419-X-438 pages. Toile de l'éditeur.
Quelques traces d'usage. Première édition américaine de cette vulgarisation sur la civilisation égyptienne par "le père de l'égyptologie britannique". L'édition londonnienne parut la même année.
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
A new edition, revised and corrected by Samuel Birch. Murray, London, 1878. In-8 p. (mm. 227x142), 3 volumi, elegante legatura in tela editoriale con decorazione in oro al piatto, pp. XXX,510; XII,516; XI,528; molto ben illustrato nel testo da 643 figure in b.n. e da 76 tavole di cui 9 a colori, nel testo e f.t., anche più volte ripieg.Cfr. Dawson and Uphill Who was who in Egyptology, p. 305: Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875), English Egyptologist and traveller, may be regarded as the real founder of Egyptology in Great Britain. He went to Egypt in 1821, where he remained no less than 12 years. Among his principal publications: The Manners and Customs of the ancient Egyptians including their private life, government, laws, arts, manufactures, religion, agriculture, and early history, derived from a comparison of the painting, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors, published in 1837, in 3 volumes. This work obtained a big success and had a number of subsequent editions, of which that revised and corrected by Samuel Birch, 3 volls 1878, is the most popular. Firma di apparten. ms. ai frontesp.; alcune pagine con sottolineature a penna, ma certamente un buon esemplare.
