1. The Tomb of Alexander. A Dissertation on the Sarcophagus brought from Alexandria and now in the British Museum. Cambridge: 1805. 4to. 5 engraved plates. Period tree calf (spine ends chipped). Some dampstain at ends. Blackmer 363. 2. Greek Marbles brought from the Shores of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Mediterranean, and deposited in the Vestibule of the Public Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: 1809. 8vo. Engraved plates. Original boards, untrimmed. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the title for Mr. Lunn. 3. Autograph Letter Signed ("E.D. Clarke"), 2 1/8 pp recto and verso, 4to (conjoined leaves), Cambridge, August 12, 1814, to his publishers, Cadell & Davies. 4. The Life and Remains of the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke. London: George Cowie, 1824. 4to. Frontispiece portrait. Diced russia (rebacked). CURRER COPY (bookplate). Clarke was a prominent antiquary and mineralogist. He is best-known today as the person who secured, with William Richard Hamilton British ownership of the Rosetta Stone.
1. The Tomb of Alexander. A Dissertation on the Sarcophagus brought from Alexandria and now in the British Museum. Cambridge: 1805. 4to. 5 engraved plates. Period tree calf (spine ends chipped). Some dampstain at ends. Blackmer 363. 2. Greek Marbles brought from the Shores of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Mediterranean, and deposited in the Vestibule of the Public Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: 1809. 8vo. Engraved plates. Original boards, untrimmed. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the title for Mr. Lunn. 3. Autograph Letter Signed ("E.D. Clarke"), 2 1/8 pp recto and verso, 4to (conjoined leaves), Cambridge, August 12, 1814, to his publishers, Cadell & Davies. 4. The Life and Remains of the Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke. London: George Cowie, 1824. 4to. Frontispiece portrait. Diced russia (rebacked). CURRER COPY (bookplate). Clarke was a prominent antiquary and mineralogist. He is best-known today as the person who secured, with William Richard Hamilton British ownership of the Rosetta Stone.
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