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Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1108066836ISBN 13: 9781108066839
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This landmark 1834 work on mummification unites the twin passions of the surgeon and antiquarian Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (1791-1865).
Verlag: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green and Longman, London, 1834
Anbieter: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Zustand: Poor. First edition. 33 cm; xxi, [1], 264, [2] pages, and [13] leaves of plates, four of them in color, ten of them signed in plate by George Cruikshank. Ample margins. Half title, subscribers list and errata present. Bound in 20th-century paper-covered boards with paper title label on spine. Frontispiece offset onto title page. Later plates dampstained in corners. Reference: Cohn, 644; Dawson, Bibliography of Works Relating to Mummification in Egypt, 97.
Verlag: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London, 1834
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: poor to g. First edition. Small folio. (xxi) 264pp. [1] + 13 plates. Original grey-green textured cloth boards. White printed label with black lettering on the front cover. Frontispiece plate. This work is a foundational and scholarly early English-language text for the study of traditional Egyptian mummification and funereal practices by English surgeon and antiquarian Thomas Joseph Pettigrew. Also discussed are other similar mummification examples from other world cultures for comparisons. The work contains 13 beautifully illustrated plates, some engraved in b/w and some in color with hand-colored over-painting in gilt (including the frontispiece), 10 of which are by acclaimed English illustrator George Cruikshank. The front includes a list of subscribers and a table of contents. Errata at the rear. Binding with front board detached but present. Covers with some soiling, scratches and sunning and some older adhesive residue. Extremities with some bumping, rubbing, and/or light chipping, including the head & tail of the spine. Front cover with paper label chipped. Interior with a closed tear, some pencil notes and creasing to the front free endpaper. Light sporadic water stains, foxing and/or smudges throughout the text. Some plates with water staining. Binding in poor, interior in good condition overall.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat FORUM BV, Houten, Niederlande
Erstausgabe
XXI, [1 blank], 264, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of "the historic cornerstone of the study [of mummification] in English. For the time at which it appeared, the work was a monumental undertaking. Based on scholarly research and practical experience, Pettigrew's work was a summation of almost all that was known concerning Egyptian funerary practices. He compiled all the ancient sources and commented on them, as well as discussing many examples of mummified remains investigated by or known to him. The work is illustrated by Georges Cruikshank (better known for his satirical drawings) that are the product of careful observation" (Peck).With the bookplate of the British lawyer and politician Bernard John Seymour Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge (1851-1927). Some foxing on the title-page and some spots and marginal waterstains on the plates, touching the last three illustrations, otherwise in good condition. Binding rebacked and restored.l Brunet IV, col. 581; Gay 1565; W.H. Peck, "Mummies of ancient Egypt" in: Mummies, disease and ancient cultures (1998), p. 15.
Verlag: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman (back of title-page and colophon: printed by P.P. Thoms), 1834., 1834
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
Erstausgabe
4to. With 13 numbered lithographed plates (the first used as frontispiece), including 3 fully and 1 partially coloured by a contemporary hand, of which 2 highlighted in gold. Contemporary half calf, restored and rebacked with parts of the original backstrip laid down, with new tooling and title-label on spine, cloth sides, later endpapers. First edition of "the historic cornerstone of the study [of mummification] in English. For the time at which it appeared, the work was a monumental undertaking. Based on scholarly research and practical experience, Pettigrew's work was a summation of almost all that was known concerning Egyptian funerary practices. He compiled all the ancient sources and commented on them, as well as discussing many examples of mummified remains investigated by or known to him. The work is illustrated by [.] Georges Cruikshank (better known for his satirical drawings) that are the product of careful observation" (Peck). - With the bookplate of the British lawyer and politician Bernard John Seymour Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge (1851-1927). Some foxing on the title-page and some spots and marginal waterstains on the plates, touching the last three illustrations, otherwise in good condition. Binding rebacked and restored. - Brunet IV, 581. Gay 1565. W. H. Peck, "Mummies of ancient Egypt" in: Mummies, disease and ancient cultures (1998), p. 15.