Ancient Egypt or Mizraim. New York: Henry G. Allen and Company, 1887. 2 volumes. Elephant folio (650 x 490 mm), pictorial titles designed by H.T. Koerner, 72 chromolithographic and tinted lithographic plates, after Roberts, Lepsius, Prisse d'Avennes, and others. Leaves all mounted on new guards, title to volume 1 lightly stained and creased, occasional light marginal staining. Later crimson half morocco, with original gilt lettered title "Mizraim" pasted down on the upper covers. FIRST EDITION, EDITION DE LUXE, number 421 of 800 sets. An important landmark in American chromolithography, the work lavishly illustrated with large plates of Egyptian Antiquity derived from David Roberts' Egypt and the Holy Land, Prisse d'Avennes' Oriental Album, Lepsius' Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien, and Description de l'Egypte. Blackmer 143.
Ancient Egypt or Mizraim. New York: Henry G. Allen and Company, 1887. 2 volumes. Elephant folio (650 x 490 mm), pictorial titles designed by H.T. Koerner, 72 chromolithographic and tinted lithographic plates, after Roberts, Lepsius, Prisse d'Avennes, and others. Leaves all mounted on new guards, title to volume 1 lightly stained and creased, occasional light marginal staining. Later crimson half morocco, with original gilt lettered title "Mizraim" pasted down on the upper covers. FIRST EDITION, EDITION DE LUXE, number 421 of 800 sets. An important landmark in American chromolithography, the work lavishly illustrated with large plates of Egyptian Antiquity derived from David Roberts' Egypt and the Holy Land, Prisse d'Avennes' Oriental Album, Lepsius' Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien, and Description de l'Egypte. Blackmer 143.
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