Egypt from Tannery Books

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1943. Paperback. Good. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., Egypt and the Suez Canal, Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, Number Eleven, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, March 31, 1943. Stapled mottled gray paper covers, 8vo (23 cm), iv, 66 pp with bibliography, 25 plates including frontispiece with bw photos. People and life in "modern" Egypt, history,… Read more

New York: B. Westermann Co., Inc.. Hardcover. Good. Ludwig Borchardt, Herbert Ricke, Egypt: Architecture, Landscape, Life of the People, New York, B. Westermann Co., Inc., ca. 1929 [probable second edition]. Red cloth hc with gold-stamped lettering and symbol on front, olive endpapers, xxviii with photo credits and place index [ii map], 272 pp bw photos. Early 20th-century photos… Read more

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Cyril Aldred, Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1970 reprint. Stiff paper boards, 8vo, 144 pp with index and notes, illustrated. Good: lightly bumped and scuffed, po bookplate inside front cover, some foxing, no underlining. Printed in Great Britain

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. Second printing. Hardcover. Good +/good. James E. Harris, Kent R. Weeks. X-Raying the Pharaohs : The most important breakthrough in Egyptology since the discovery of Tutankhamon's tomb. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973, second printing. Early work of Dr. Kent R. Weeks, two decades before he rediscovered tomb KV5 as the tomb… Read more