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Thebes: Its Tombs and Their Tenants Ancient and Present Including a Record of Excavations in the Necropolis by RHIND, A. Hanry
London: Longmans, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1862. First edition. Octavo. xx, [1, plate list, [1], 329, [1, printer's slug], [1, publisher's ad], [1] pp. Complete with seven chromolithographs (including frontispiece and map) and nine monochrome full page illustrations, Half-title present. Publisher's pebble-grain maroon cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering and decoration, chocolate brown endpapers. Spine a bit mellowed and minor chip at top of front hinge. Overall, a very attractive copy in the original and very solid publisher's binding. Alexander Henry Rhind, a Scottish lawyer who traveled to Egypt for his health in 1855-56 and 1856-57, is probably best known for the Egyptian Mathematical Papyrus that bears his name (now preserved at the British Museum). As did many other educated Europeans who went to Egypt for medical reasons, Rhind undertook excavations in the Theban area (modern Luxor). Through his excavations and purchases, he acquired a large collection of antiquities, much of which is now in Edinburgh and still unpublished. Rhind's book on Thebes is unique in that unlike many other Egyptologists of his time, he gives a precise and detailed description of how he actually excavated the sites, in itself an immense value to the history of archaeology.
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