Travel & Exploration - 85 - Bauman Rare Books Maspero’s Famed History Of Egypt, Illustrated With Hundreds Of Plates 82. MASPERO, Gaston Camille Charles, and RAPPOPORT, A.S. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria. London, 1903-06. Thirteen volumes. Royal octavo, publisher’s three-quarter green morocco gilt. $12,000. Deluxe limited “Connoisseur Edition” of this esteemed history of Egypt and the Middle East, one of only 200 copies printed on Japan vellum and richly illustrated with over 1200 plates and intext illustrations, including dozens of fine gravures in double-suite and 26 finely hand-colored plates, including the frontispiece of each volume, very handsomely bound. The principal work of this set is an English translation of Maspero’s Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique (1895), here translated in nine volumes. Three volumes are dedicated to Rappoport’s three-volume History of Egypt from 330 BC to the modern era. With the supplemental 13th volume History of Egypt in the Light of Recent Discovery by King and Hall, often not present. In these 13 richly illustrated volumes, Maspero and Rappoport present an intimate acquaintance with the history of Egypt and the Nile Valley, Assyria and Babylonia, as well as the literature and culture of these regions. Issued simultaneously in three limited editions. Plates and text fine, spines toned to brown, a few volumes with joint and spine ends expertly repaired, supplemental volume rebacked with original spine laid down.
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