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Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241430810ISBN 13: 9781241430818
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241430659ISBN 13: 9781241430658
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Zustand: New.
Verlag: Trübner and Co, London, 1854
Anbieter: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First edition. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 2-461, [3]; [3], iv-vii, [2], 3-643, [3] pp. Contemporary half pebbled leather over marbled boards, spines in six compartments with gold lettering; top edges gilt. Volume one illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and 35 additional plates, several of which are chromolithographs. The illustrations of volume one also contain a map of Egypt, a plan of Gizeh, an illustration from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, images of tombs, pyramids, and sepulchers, images from Egyptian mythology, and parts of the Rosetta stone. Volume one also contains several in-text diagrams of hieroglyphic translations. Volume two also illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece, a chromolithograph plate, and another map of Egypt. Wikipedia, "Charles B. Farwell". Bookplate of C.B. Farwell on each pastedown, a Senator and Congressman from Illinois, and an early supporter of woman's suffrage. Volume one covers "the first Colonization of the Valley to the Visit of the Patriarch Abram", volume two discusses "from the visit of Abram to the Exodus". Osburn explains what contributed to the rise of Egyptian civilization, the workings of Egyptian religion and mythology, the Nile, hieratic and demotic writing, Greek writings on Egyptian history, traditions surrounding death and the afterlife, Egyptian royal dynasties, slavery, marriages in ancient Egypt, Christianity in Egypt, Egypt and its interactions with other African peoples (a chapter on "African Descent"), and a history of Egyptian politics and its shifting kingdoms. A comprehensive history of ancient Egypt and the Pharaohs, Egypt as it was before Greek and Roman colonization, as told by archaeological evidence. A Very Good+ set with rubbing to the extremities of volume one (particularly to the joints).