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New York: Attic Books, Circa 1970. fascimilie Copy of the 1909 Egyptian First Edition. Paperbound. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 27, indexed. Illustrated with 54 b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Ancient Egyptian amulets ollected by Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936) proprietor of Blanchards Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and purportedly "given" by R. H. Blanchard to Maribel (Mara-Belle) Davis Carroll (1886-1962) in Cairo, Egypt, about 1907-1910, and in 1930 given by her to Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire ... "Ancient Egyptian amulets represented animals, deities, symbols, or objects in miniature. In addition, certain things found in nature, such as a claw or shell, were thought to be imbued with magical power and therefore could function as an amulet as well. So-called textual amulets also occur; these usually consist of a short magical spell written…
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by Ralph R. Blanchard
Bits and Pieces of a Man's Life
by Ralph R. Blanchard
- Used
- Hardcover
NY, Vantage, 1985. Hardcover. 1st edition. 20.9 cm (8.2 inch) tall. 56 pages. Condition of book: Book Very Good (very light general wear; clean & tight)/ Dust jacket Good+ (half-inch repaired tear at spinetop, quarter-inch chip on spine else slight scuffing; bright). Humor & Satire. Our books ship from Tampa Florida by the next business day.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Binding Hardcover
- ISBN 10 0533062543
- ISBN 13 9780533062546
- Publisher NY, Vantage
- Date Published 1985