London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1885. First edition. Good. 33 cm; viii, 32 pages, 2 maps and 13 engraved plates, most of them by Marguerite Naville. Bound in original printed boards with blue cloth back strip. Corners and edges somewhat darkened and worn, but condition is very good. Library borrowing slip pasted to front blank (the book was never borrowed); no other library marks.

The first report for the Egypt Exploration Fund, and the one that established the format for all subsequent EEF publications into the mid 20th century. Called by KMT (the journal of Egyptology) "one of the brainiest and certainly the best educated of the early Egyptologists," Henri Edouard Naville (1844-1926) was already a Romantic figure in Europe when he undertook excavations at Tell el Maskhuta for the newly formed Egypt Exploration Fund. The volume offered here is the official report of that excavation. It is illustrated with very perceptive engravings by Marguerite de Pourtales, who married Naville in 1883.

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Bookseller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4462
Title: The Store City of Pithom and the Route of the Exodus.
Author: Naville, Édouard
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Egypt Exploration Fund
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1885
Keywords: egyptology excavations Archaeology tombs antiquities
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