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18029. Junker, Hermann. Die Kultkammer des Prinzen Kanjnjswt im Wiener Kunsthistorischen Museum. Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1931, 3te Auflage, 12 plates, 39pp., good stapled paper wraps, corners clipped, $15 Führer durch die Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, 9. Heft. Deals with Egyptian Tombs.
18289. Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957. The Story of Nefrekepta from a demotic Papyrus. Put into Verse by Gilbert Murray. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1911, iv, 47, [1]pp. col. front. 25 cm, very good brown paper-covered boards with gold frame and titles, slight cover wear, spine darkened, heavy foxing on endpapers, $45 "The original of this tale is in demotic Egyptian, in prose, on a fragmentary papyrus dated 'the first month of winter, in the fifteenth year' of some king unnamed. Palaeographical evidence suggests some date about 100 B.C. I know the tale only from the literal translation which accompanies the text in Dr. Griffith's Stories of the high priests of Memphis." -- Preface.
22925. Saad, Zaki Yusef. Pharaonic Egypt: quick visit. Cairo, Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop [1964], 208pp. illus., map, port. 20 cm, dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good orange hardcover, nicely INSCRIBED by Saad to Director and Mrs. Perry T. Rathbone, 1970. [Rathbone, 1911-2000 was director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from 1955 until 1972 and then worked for Christie's.. $125 The author was an important Egyptian archeologist.
23023. Wilson, John A.. The Culture of Ancient Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981, later printing, 344pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $5 Cover by Sue Allen. Originally published as The Burden of Egypt, 1951.
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