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Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London, 1834
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: poor to g. First edition. Small folio. (xxi) 264pp. [1] + 13 plates. Original grey-green textured cloth boards. White printed label with black lettering on the front cover. Frontispiece plate. This work is a foundational and scholarly early English-language text for the study of traditional Egyptian mummification and funereal practices by English surgeon and antiquarian Thomas Joseph Pettigrew. Also discussed are other similar mummification examples from other world cultures for comparisons. The work contains 13 beautifully illustrated plates, some engraved in b/w and some in color with hand-colored over-painting in gilt (including the frontispiece), 10 of which are by acclaimed English illustrator George Cruikshank. The front includes a list of subscribers and a table of contents. Errata at the rear. Binding with front board detached but present. Covers with some soiling, scratches and sunning and some older adhesive residue. Extremities with some bumping, rubbing, and/or light chipping, including the head & tail of the spine. Front cover with paper label chipped. Interior with a closed tear, some pencil notes and creasing to the front free endpaper. Light sporadic water stains, foxing and/or smudges throughout the text. Some plates with water staining. Binding in poor, interior in good condition overall.
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London, 1834
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Nineteenth-century half gilt-ruled red morocco and mottled cloth, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments (5 raised bands), all edges marbled; 4to (9 x 11.5 inches); pp. xxi (including half-title page and list of subscribers), [1], 264, [2] (errata, blank), plus hand-colored frontispiece and 12 plates (10 of which are by George Cruikshank, and 3 of which are hand-colored). Light scuffing along joints and edges of boards; corners bumped. A little browning here and there, most of it marginal, some off-setting of frontispiece onto title-page. Cohn 644.