BUDGE, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis.- The Egyptian Sûdân. Its history and monuments. With numerous illustrations. London, Kegan Paul Trench (printed by Gilbert & Rivington), 1907.
Estimation :
250 / 300
Description
2 vol. in-8° (foxing to some pp. and tissue guards, some tissue guards stuck on the plates in vol. I).
Publisher's binding : bordeaux cloth, upper boards with gilt illustration and title, flat spines with gilt title, gilt top edges (joints of vol. I repaired, wears or stains, edges and corners dulled).
FIRST EDITION of this journey made by Budge (1857-1934) into Sudan. Profusely illustrated with vignettes, full-pages and plates, some folding, protected by tissue guards figuring the Pyramid of Murtek, plans (cataract of Semna and Kumma, Temple at Gebel Barkal, pyramids of El-Kurru...), Nile at Kassingar, Aswan in 1904, British cemetery on the Atbara in 1898, Mosque at Khartoum, altar with Meroitic inscriptions, etc. Budge made numerous trips to Egypt and Sudan to buy antiquities for the British Museum.
Provenance : Richard William Alan Onslow (1876-1945), 5th Earl of Onslow, British peer, diplomat and parliamentary (emblazoned ex-libris); New College, Oxford (id. + stamps, copy given by R.W.A. Onslow).
# Blackmer 1174.
JOINT, same author, illustrated, in-8° publisher's cloth : (1). Books on Egypt and Chaldea. Egyptian ideas of the future life. London, 1899, 3 vol. (small defects and some foxing).-- (2). The Nile. Notes for travellers in Egypt. 10th edition. London; Cairo, 1907 (slightly browned, spine detached).
IHFZ Édition originale du récit de voyage au Soudan de Budge abondamment illustré. Pleine toile bordeaux d'éd. (rouss. à qqs pp., mors du vol. I restaurés). Avec 2 ouvr. de Budge joints.
Publisher's binding : bordeaux cloth, upper boards with gilt illustration and title, flat spines with gilt title, gilt top edges (joints of vol. I repaired, wears or stains, edges and corners dulled).
FIRST EDITION of this journey made by Budge (1857-1934) into Sudan. Profusely illustrated with vignettes, full-pages and plates, some folding, protected by tissue guards figuring the Pyramid of Murtek, plans (cataract of Semna and Kumma, Temple at Gebel Barkal, pyramids of El-Kurru...), Nile at Kassingar, Aswan in 1904, British cemetery on the Atbara in 1898, Mosque at Khartoum, altar with Meroitic inscriptions, etc. Budge made numerous trips to Egypt and Sudan to buy antiquities for the British Museum.
Provenance : Richard William Alan Onslow (1876-1945), 5th Earl of Onslow, British peer, diplomat and parliamentary (emblazoned ex-libris); New College, Oxford (id. + stamps, copy given by R.W.A. Onslow).
# Blackmer 1174.
JOINT, same author, illustrated, in-8° publisher's cloth : (1). Books on Egypt and Chaldea. Egyptian ideas of the future life. London, 1899, 3 vol. (small defects and some foxing).-- (2). The Nile. Notes for travellers in Egypt. 10th edition. London; Cairo, 1907 (slightly browned, spine detached).
IHFZ Édition originale du récit de voyage au Soudan de Budge abondamment illustré. Pleine toile bordeaux d'éd. (rouss. à qqs pp., mors du vol. I restaurés). Avec 2 ouvr. de Budge joints.
