Ancient Egypt from Minotavros Books

Chicago: University of Knowledge, Incorporated, 1938. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. The University of Knowledge Wonder Books. Navy leatherette boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Pictorial endpapers. XVI, 17-384 pp. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Dust jacket is rubbed to joints and extremities, short tear to head of front joint and… Read more

San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1977. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Original green cloth. xvi, 493 p.p. Some damp staining to boards. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned at spine nd edges, a few short tears, some scuffs, light wear and staining. For the first time in one volume: one of the most dramatic… Read more

London: Prospero Books, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Orig. illustrated boards, 160pp. Illustrated. Light bumping to spine and bottom edge of front board, o/w near fine in a near fine d/w. The Tales of the Gods, The Tales of the Pharos, and Secular Tales.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1964. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and vignette to lower front board. Top edge blue. 349 p.p., [16] p.p. B&W plates. B&W illustrations in-text. Sunning to spine and edges. Bookplate to ffep. Dust jacket sunned at spine, chip to spine head, one inch tear to foot of… Read more

San Jose, California: Supreme Grand Lodge of Amorc, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo (small). Rosicrucian Library XXIV. Orig. pictorial cloth, 189pp. Illustrated. About fine in near fine but fade d/w with small chip to lower corner of front cover.

Mokelumne Hill, California: Health Research, 1972. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Reprint of the 1895 edition (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.). Spiral bound, green card covers. XVI, 321 p.p. Includes glossary and suggested reading. Some staining and bumping to covers, bumping and creasing to corners. Bookplate of Babette D. Weaver to half-title. E.A. Wallis… Read more

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 350. Greek, Latin and English. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and LCL monogram to front board. xxxii, 256 p.p. White scuff to tail edge of front board, else fine. Dust jacket sunned at spine, a few spots of chafing… Read more

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. 2nd Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. lviii, 353 p.p. With an updated bibliography. Corners curling slighly, lightly bumped in a few places, else a fine copy. "The Greek Magical Papyri" is a collection of magical spells and formulas, hymns and rituals from Greco-Roman Egypt. Dating from the second… Read more

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo (super). Translated from the German by Michael Bullock and Alisa Jaffa. ix, 110 p.p. + 76 p.p. B&W plates. Twelve tipped-in colour illustrations incl. frontis (paginated). Map endpapers. Teal cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge red. Chafing to spine and foot of boards. Bumping… Read more

London: Phaidon, 1968. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. 4th ed. revised and englarged ; with additional material in the fourth German ed. translated by Judith Filson and Barbara Taylor. viii, 559 p.p. 330 plates, 60 in colour. Tan cloth boards with navy lettering to spine and falcon and ankh device to front board. … Read more

Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo. vii, 184 p.p. Illustrated boards. Pictorial endpapers. Veteran spell-caster Claudia R. Dillaire turns to the dark art of Egyptian magic, revealing how rituals practiced thousands of years ago just might provide the necessary catharsis for our modern times. With 25 spells, details on ingredients such as oils and… Read more

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1919. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo. Published for the John Rylands Library at the University Press. xx, 234 p.p., [3 p.p. ads]. Original blue cloth boards, sunning to spine and head of boards, bumping and rubbing to spine ends, damp stains to boards and spine, some foxing and tanning to edges. Small blue damp stain… Read more

London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co, 1853. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. The Origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art, in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ; its middle state in the cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis ; its introduction to Europe… Read more

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Translated from German by Ann E. Keep. [xvi], 379 p.p. Paperback with illustrated cover. Light bumping to corners, else a fine copy.

London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1960. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 162 p.p. Original green cloth with gilt titling on spine. Dust jacket a little sunned at head, light wear to spine ends, and one small tear to rear at head, else fine. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Sticker removed from FFEP. B&W photos.… Read more

[California]: Artisan Sales, 1978. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Paperback. 96 p.p. A biblical analysis of the Pyramids of Giza and Future Prophecy of the Second Coming of Christ. Covers slightly curled with wear to corners and edges. Creasing at some soilng to covers. Small dampstain to foot of title page and front inner cover.… Read more

London: Printed By Order of the Trustees, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo [tall]. Original paperboards, quarter bound with later spine. xiv, 325 p.p., [2] ads. Features a preface by E.A. Wallis Budge, prolific scholar and author on Egyptology, who worked in the Department of Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum. With [53] full page illustrations,… Read more

New York: D. Appleton and Co. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to (large). [1881-1883]. In Two Volumes. Pictorial blind stamped boards. A.e.g. with inner edges dentelle. Marbled endpapers. Vol. I: x, 480 p.p., [20] plates of steel engraved illustrations incl. frontis and vignette on half-title page; Vol. 2: x, 476 p.p. [20] plates of steel engraved illustrations incl. frontis… Read more

Zurich: Living Human Heritage Publications, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo. 154 p.p. Miniature tear to head of front jacket cover opposite spine, but otherwise fine. Light wear to boards. As new. The Amduat is one of the earliest illustrated religious texts about the afterlife found in the tomb of Tuthmosis III. Descriptive notes by Erik Hornburg… Read more

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1922. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo (medium). xii, 121 p.p., numerous photographs and illustrations..Light jacket wear. Otherwise as new.