Search Results: Language - Egyptian from Leaf and Stone Books

Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover. [vi], [16], 33, [v] pp, 2 blanks. The 1968 reprint of the 1952 original. Frontis figure of the ostracon, unnumbered pages with sections of the ostracon with printed hieroglyphs below with number keys, then 33 numbered pages of commentary. Original brown kraft paper dust jacket is a bit tattered, hand-written title at spine. Book itself is bound in dark green cloth, with a small bit of sunning to upper edges, slight rubbing to corners and spine tips. Pencil erasure to first blank, title page has signature and two stamps of noted linguist, sci-fi novelist and gaming creator M.A.R. Barker, last two blanks have bottom corners roughly torn off, otherwise a nice copy. Over-sized, may require additional shipping depending on your location. ; Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall .

Chicago: Ares Pub. Good with no dust jacket. 1977. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. 0890050988 . 45 pp. Goldenrod yellow paper card covers with two staples at the spine. Bit of corner curl, interior is clean and unmarked, paper a little toned with some edge curl. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 45 pages .

Leiden: E. J. Brill. Fair with no dust jacket. 1865. First Edition. Paperback. 40 pp + 3 folding plates at the rear. With bookplate of MSHG Heerma Van Voss and some slips of paper with what appear to be his comparisons of hieratic to hieroglyphic. Original grey paper card wraps are worn around the edges with some chipping and curling, spine cover repaired with old brown paper. Interior paper is toned with some foxing throughout, corners curled and bent, some chipping at the edges. The repair to the spine has left a section of the gray card on the inside front cover. Folding plates have some splitting at the folds but generally fairly sound. A good-/fair+ copy with nice provenance. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .

Brussells: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth. Good. 1928. Paperback. 45 pages. In French. Folio, original grey paper covers are worn at all edges, bit browned, curled, spine cover worn. Interior has bookplate of Dutch Egyptologist M. S. H. G. Heerma Van Voss. Interior pages are clean, end papers have some foxing, bottom edges are roughly cut which looks as though it were in the bindery. En Deux Dimensions 18 Points et 12 Points, avec Grandeurs Intermediaires. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 45 pages .

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 2010. Softcover. 1108013996 . Xxiv, 384 pp. Indexes, Geographical names. Octavo. Softcovers with ancient coptic text, red title square. Bottom front cover has small curl, paper a bit toned but otherwise clean and sturdy. Very nice copy. Coptic with English. ; Cambridge Literary Collection; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages .

Arles: Actes Sud; Solin. Good with no dust jacket. 1997. First Edition Thus. Softcover. 2742715584 . 555 pp. Tall octavo. Black smooth card covers with an Egyptian eye. Corners are a bit turned in, price sticker scar on bottom spine but otherwise clean and unmarked. This contains a facsimile of Champollion's ground-breaking Egyptian grammar published by Didot in 1836. Nicely printed, the hieroglyphs and images are clean and dark. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 555 pages .

Roma: Bardi Editore. Very Good. 1995. Softcover. 8885699057 . 121 pp. 34 figures, most color. Index at rear. Italian text. Navy blue softcover. Book is in very good condition, very clean with no marks. Very faint wear on corners. With business card, signed by author. Loose sleeve errata page inside front cover. ; 9.29 X 6.61 X 0.47 inches .

Le Caire (cairo): Imprimerie De L'Institut Français D'Archéologie Orientale. Fair with no dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Offprint, Annales du Service des Antiquites de L'Egypte. T XLV. 15 pages + 11 plates including fold out plates. French text,. Scarce, only 3 copies on WorldCat. Signed by author to W. R. Dawson the well-known English Egyptologist and antiquarian. Original grey paper wrappers are sunned at edges, stapled binding, front cover starting to separate, edges chipped, top corner of front wrapper crumpled, text pages following are correspondingly bent. Varille (1909-1951) , a French Egyptologist, was a member of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo. He excavated the gates of Ptolemy III and Ptolemy IV from the temple of Medamud, and had a promising career ahead of him, until a car accident ended his life in 1951. ; Service Des Antiquités De L'Égypt; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 15 pages; Signed by Author .