Lot n° 74

6 illustrated works on Egypt, one dedicated by the Belgian egyptologist Jean Capart, in nice decorated publisher's binding.

Estimation : 120 / 150
Description
(1). STEPHENS, J.L.- Notes of travel in Egypt and Nubia. London, 1876, black pictorial upper board figuring Giza.-- (2). ERMAN, A.- Life in Ancient Egypt. London, 1894, gilt pictorial binding with a.o. Nekhbet; ex-libris of Jean Varille.-- (3). KELLY, R.T.- Egypt painted and described. London, 1904 (lightly yellowed).-- (4). HICHENS, Rob.- Egypt and its monuments. London, 1908, gate of Pylon at Karnak (?) in gilt on upper board.-- (5). WEIGALL, A.- The Treasury of Ancient Egypt. Edinburgh and London, 1911 (sliglty browned, spine yellowed). Ex-libris Georg C. Johansen.-- (6). WILBOUR, Ch.Edw.- Travels in Egypt [December 1880 to May 1891]. NY, 1936, gilt pharaoh's head on upper board (copy and spine yellowed). Ex-dono from Capart to Baudouin Van de Walle, professor of egyptology at the University of Liège, nov. 1936.
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