British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account Twelfth Year, 1906: Hyksos and Israelite Cities
London: School of Archaeology in Egypt / Bernard Quaritch, 1906. Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. vii, 56 (1)pp., xl plates. Original three-quarter cloth over gray boards with black lettering on cover, gilt on spine. Educational archaeology text illustrated with 40 plates, one of the a color lithograph of pottery from a coffin for a man, and b/w photographs depicting archaeological finds from tombs and excavation sites, measured drawings, one of them folding, and line drawings of artifacts. Contains descriptive list of plates and index with one page listing works of W. M. Flinders Petrie. List of publications of the Egyptian Research Account on back cover. Binding with library barcode and sticker, wear along edges and rubbed, some fraying at head of spine and back cover split loose except for four inches at tail of spine. Two library bookplates on inside front, one of them from Gordon D. Savage, possibly the Anglican bishop, and library pocket, dealer sticker and numeric stamp on inside back cover. Starting at inside covers. Library stamps on top and bottom edges. Block with some age-toning and some foxing to endpapers. Binding in overall poor, interior in good to good+ condition. poor to g+. Item #44460
Price: $150.00