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Excerpta hieroglyphica

BURTON James

Item #M7210a

Extremely rare. Cairo, 1825-1829. First edition. Oblong folio. Half-title + div. title + Plates I*, II, VIII, XIII (4 of 18) + div. title + Plates XVIII-XXX (missing XXXI?) + div. title + Plates XXXII-XLII + div. title + Plates XLIII-LXI. Modern half-leather. James Burton jr. (1788-1862) published this work with the help of Joseph Bonomi and an unidentified C.H. (probably Burton's private secretary Charles Humphreys). The work was published without letterpress, Burton intending to publish further text to aid the decipherment of hieroglyphics. An accurate collation of this work does not appear to exist. In this copy, there is a I* plate and the work ends with plate LXI, hence there could be a total of 62 plates. We have a total of 47 plates and the half-title and 4 divisional titles. The last three sections are complete. The date of publication also appears to vary with different copies. This copy has plates dated from 1825-1829. All copies of this work are very rare and it appears that few copies were ever published. Ex-libris Robert H. Miller. Language: English. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Language, Texts & Writing.

Language: English.

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