Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon

[Egyptology]. PIANKOFF, Alexandre (translator) and N. RAMBOVA (editor)

Verlag: Pantheon Books for the Bollingen Foundation, New York, 1955

New York, Pantheon Books for the Bollingen Foundation, 1955. Large quarto, xxii, 152 pages with 45 illustrations plus a frontispiece, 2 'gold facsimile' plates, 8 folding plates (from line illustrations) and 63 pages of plates (from photographs). Quarter contrasting cloth; small ownership stamp on front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the plain dustwrapper (with a small square window cut out of the spine to display the title, as issued) slightly rubbed and torn; lacking the slipcase. Volume 2 in the Bollingen Series XL: Egyptian Texts and Representations. A detailed study of the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the shrines of Tutankhamun, 'now in the Cairo Museum. The volume contains, in translation, and reconstructed in so far as possible, the texts inscribed on the interior and exterior panels of the shrines, together with diagrams of the important representations, and a section of collotype plates of the shrines, the tomb walls, and related religious objects' (from the editorial note). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 137705

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon
Verlag: Pantheon Books for the Bollingen Foundation, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1955
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included
Auflage: First Edition.