BUDGE, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis.- The Book of the Dead. Facsimiles of the papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet with supplementary text from the papyrus of Nu [...]. London, sold at the British Museum, and by Longmans, Bernard...
Estimation :
300 / 400
Description
Quaritch, Kegan Paul [et al.] (Harrisson), 1899.
Large in-f° : xi-[1]-64 pp.; 99 pl.
Contemporary binding : half brown shagreen with dark green shagreen corners, boards of brown buckram encircled with a gilt fillet, gilt titled flat spine (scratches, especially on the stained lower board, turn ins rubbed, small lacks, corners strongly dulled).
FIRST EDITION according most of the booksellers but the BNF lists (wrongly ?) an edition published in 1889. The 99 plates (20 in colour) figure facsimiles of the papyri or hieroglyphic transcripts. The text pages contains the transcriptions of the papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet, translations and explanations of scenes represented. The English egyptologist and orientalist Budge (1857-1934) made numerous trips to Egypt and Sudan to buy antiquities for the British Museum.
Provenance : William Ivor Grantham, Balneath [Sussex] 1930 (handwritten mention).
JOINT : (1). 2 illustrated works of the same author : The Book of the Dead. The chapters of coming forth by day [- A vocabulary in hieroglyphic to the Theban recension]. London, 1898, 3 vol. in-8° marbled sheepskin, wrappers preserved (dampstains incl. on the binding, larger in 1 vol., one upper board strongly rubbed, 1 joint partly split, small defects),- The Book of the Dead. 2d edition. London; NY, 1923, 3 parts in 1 vol. in-8° publisher's cloth (rare foxing).-- (2). 8 modern works on the same subject of which studies or translations of Champdor, Speleers, Slosman, de Caluwe and Kolpaktchy.
Large in-f° : xi-[1]-64 pp.; 99 pl.
Contemporary binding : half brown shagreen with dark green shagreen corners, boards of brown buckram encircled with a gilt fillet, gilt titled flat spine (scratches, especially on the stained lower board, turn ins rubbed, small lacks, corners strongly dulled).
FIRST EDITION according most of the booksellers but the BNF lists (wrongly ?) an edition published in 1889. The 99 plates (20 in colour) figure facsimiles of the papyri or hieroglyphic transcripts. The text pages contains the transcriptions of the papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet, translations and explanations of scenes represented. The English egyptologist and orientalist Budge (1857-1934) made numerous trips to Egypt and Sudan to buy antiquities for the British Museum.
Provenance : William Ivor Grantham, Balneath [Sussex] 1930 (handwritten mention).
JOINT : (1). 2 illustrated works of the same author : The Book of the Dead. The chapters of coming forth by day [- A vocabulary in hieroglyphic to the Theban recension]. London, 1898, 3 vol. in-8° marbled sheepskin, wrappers preserved (dampstains incl. on the binding, larger in 1 vol., one upper board strongly rubbed, 1 joint partly split, small defects),- The Book of the Dead. 2d edition. London; NY, 1923, 3 parts in 1 vol. in-8° publisher's cloth (rare foxing).-- (2). 8 modern works on the same subject of which studies or translations of Champdor, Speleers, Slosman, de Caluwe and Kolpaktchy.
