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    By James Henry Breasted
    London   Hodder and Stoughton
    10" by 7.5" xxix [5], 3-634pp
    A first edition study of ancient Egyptian history, from a prominent early twentieth century export in the field. Illustrated throughout, and with a colour folding map.
    By James Henry Breasted

    1906 A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest

    London   Hodder and Stoughton
    10" by 7.5" xxix [5], 3-634pp
    A first edition study of ancient Egyptian history, from a prominent early twentieth century export in the field. Illustrated throughout, and with a colour folding map.
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    Description

    Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

    The scarce first UK edition of this work from American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian James Henry Breasted. Breasted was a committed field researcher, and had a productive interest in recording and interpreting ancient writings, especially from sources and structures that he feared may be lost forever.

    This attractive work is illustrated throughout with photographic plates and illustrated vignettes, featuring a colour frontispiece also thirteen maps, one of which is a folding colour plate to the rear of the work. Collated, complete.

    With chapters focusing on various important periods in Ancient Egypt, including the Feudal Age, the wars of Ramses II and the 'Ethiopian supremacy and the triumph of Assyria'.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Bumping to spine head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

    Very Good Indeed

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