PETTIGREW, Thomas.- A History of Egyptian mummies and An account of the worship and embalming of sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of...
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250 / 300
Description
the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c. [...]. London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1834.
In-4°; 13 pl. (some pl. lightly browned, a few pp. and pl. partly detached, foxing, small defects or stains).
Publisher's binding : cardboard, upper board with titled label, flat spine (spine reinforced, wears, handwritten note and plant leaf stuck on upper pastedown, label and stamps on upper flyleaf, newspaper cut on lower pastedown).
FIRST EDITION of this decisive work of "Mummy Pettigrew" (1791-1865), surgeon and antiquarian. Illustrated with 13 plates by the British caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank (1762-1878), praised as the "modern Hogarth", four of them partly or entirely hand-coloured.
JOINT : (1). SMITH, G.E.; DAWSON, W.R.- Egyptian mummies. With woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and Katherine Leigh-Pemberton and other illustrations. London, Allen & Unwin, (1924), in-4° publisher's cloth (faded spine). 1st ed.; ex-libris of Harold Winnock Parrott.-- (2). BUDGE, E.Al.Th.W.- The mummy [...]. 2d ed. Cambridge, University press, 1925, in-8° publisher's cloth. Several illustrations.
IHFZ Édition originale de cet important ouvr. sur les momies et l'embaumement. Cartonnage d'édition (qqs pl. lég. brunies, qqs pp. et pl. part. détachées, dos renforcé). Avec 2 ouvr. illustrés joints.
In-4°; 13 pl. (some pl. lightly browned, a few pp. and pl. partly detached, foxing, small defects or stains).
Publisher's binding : cardboard, upper board with titled label, flat spine (spine reinforced, wears, handwritten note and plant leaf stuck on upper pastedown, label and stamps on upper flyleaf, newspaper cut on lower pastedown).
FIRST EDITION of this decisive work of "Mummy Pettigrew" (1791-1865), surgeon and antiquarian. Illustrated with 13 plates by the British caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank (1762-1878), praised as the "modern Hogarth", four of them partly or entirely hand-coloured.
JOINT : (1). SMITH, G.E.; DAWSON, W.R.- Egyptian mummies. With woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and Katherine Leigh-Pemberton and other illustrations. London, Allen & Unwin, (1924), in-4° publisher's cloth (faded spine). 1st ed.; ex-libris of Harold Winnock Parrott.-- (2). BUDGE, E.Al.Th.W.- The mummy [...]. 2d ed. Cambridge, University press, 1925, in-8° publisher's cloth. Several illustrations.
IHFZ Édition originale de cet important ouvr. sur les momies et l'embaumement. Cartonnage d'édition (qqs pl. lég. brunies, qqs pp. et pl. part. détachées, dos renforcé). Avec 2 ouvr. illustrés joints.
