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Lot 256
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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[Travel & Exploration] Sams, J(oseph). Ancient Egypt. Objects of Antiquity, forming part of the Extensive & rich collections from Ancient Egypt...
London: Executed for, & under the immediate Inspection of the Proprietor, 1839. First and only edition (one of only 60 copies printed). Folio. Illustrated with a hand-colored lithographed title-page and 33 hand-colored lithographed plates, by J.B. Cranwell. Contemporary three-quarter brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in blind, green morocco cover label, lettered in gilt, front board starting, boards and extremities worn and dry, portions of marbled paper perished or starting on front and rear board; all edges trimmed; matching marbled endpapers; armorial book-plate of H.T.M. Witham on front paste-down; fore-edge of title-page lightly worn; scattered light thumb soiling in margins; leaves lightly toned. Smith, Friends' Books, p. 533
A very rare and early work on Egyptology.
OCLC and Library Hub locate only nine copies worldwide. According to RBH, this is only the fourth copy to ever come to auction.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.