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Item #2348505 The House of the Hidden Places: A Clue to the Creed of Early Egypt; and The Book of...

Adams, W. Marsham; Gilbert, R.A.

The House of the Hidden Places: A Clue to the Creed of Early Egypt; and The Book of the Master; or, The Egyptian Doctrine of the Light Born of the Virgin Mother (The Ibis Western Mystery Tradition) [Egyptian Book of the Dead]

Berwick, Maine: Ibis Press / Nicolas-Hays, Inc. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.

First printing. An excellent copy.

xxxvi, 249, xv, 204, [4] pp. 2004 reissue of two works first released in 1895 and 1898, with a new foreword by R.A. Gilbert. In The House of the Hidden Places, first published in.....

Price: $20.00

Becker, W.A. [Wilhelm Adolf]; Metcalfe, Frederick (Translator)

Gallus; or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus, with Notes and Excursuses Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans [with] Charicles; or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks, with Notes and Excursuses

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876. Hard Cover.

Gallus: Front hinge weakening. Both volumes: Some loss to spine head and to spine base, ink stamp and ink name on front endpapers.

xxi, 535; xxi, 512 pp. Two volume set. Wilhelm Adolf Becker's classics works on life in ancient Greece and.....

Price: $35.00

Boughton, Willis

History of Ancient Peoples

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his name in ink on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by.....

Price: $75.00

Budge, E.A. Wallis

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. The Egyptian Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation, a Running Translation, Introduction, Etc.

Garden City, New York: Dover Publications, 2024. Reissue. Trade Paperback.

2024 reprint of 1967 unabridged republication of the 1895 edition. Brand new from publisher. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

xiv, 704 pp. "Fascinating compendium of ancient Egyptian mythology, religious beliefs and magical practices. Includes spells, incantations.....

Price: $24.95

Darnell, John Coleman; Manassa, Colleen

Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty [18th]

Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

xxiv, 286 pp. The force that forged an empire. The furious thunder of thousands of hooves, the clatter and sheen of bronze.....

Price: $15.00

Fox, Robin Lane; Meier, Christian; Jones, Peter; McLintock, David; Grant, Michael; McLeish, Kenneth; Bradford, Ernle; Lindsay, Jack

Rulers of the Ancient World: Alexander the Great; Julius Caesar; Nero; Hannibal; Cleopatra (The Folio Society)

London: The Folio Society, 1997. Reissue. Hard Cover.

1998 second printings (except Alexander, which is a third). Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #965.5 (comprising #s 887, 921, 930, 933, 934). Includes publisher's slipcase. Two panels of slipcase scuffed, otherwise an excellent set.

Five volumes in slipcase. Cloth bindings with gilt titles on.....

Price: $175.00

MacDonald, Fiona

Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings (DK Discoveries)

New York: DK, 2001. Molan, Chris. First American Edition. Large Hardcover.

First American edition. Sticker ghost on front board.

48 pp. Witness the life of a powerful Egyptian ruler. Vivid storytelling brings the past to life. Exciting eyewitness accounts make you feel like part of the action. Stunning photographs, annotated.....

Price: $3.00

Manniche, Lise

Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt

London / New York: Kegan Paul International, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback.

First edition - a paperback original. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

127 pp. This is the book that introduced readers to the erotic life that flourished along the banks of the.....

Price: $30.00

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The Teachings of Osiris: Set Down in the House of El Eros-El Erua, They Being Male-Female, Born According to the Laws Governing the Dhuman-Adamic Race, This Being Their Fourth Incarnation

London: Rider & Co., 1927. Third Edition. Hard Cover.

Third edition. No jacket. Stained, pencil underlining and marginalia.

vi, 135 pp. Teachings of Osiris is a book written by H. C. Randall-Stevens that delves into the ancient Egyptian god Osiris and his teachings. The book explores the mythology and symbolism.....

Price: $200.00

Patch, Diana Craig; Eaton-Krauss, Marianne; Friedman, Renee; Roth, Ann Macy; Silverman, David P.; Allen, Susan J.; Cortes, Emilia; Roehrig, Catharine H.; Serotta, Anna

Dawn of Egyptian Art

New York / New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket faintly toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

xii, 275 pp. With illustrations of more than 180 objects created.....

Price: $20.00

Plutarch; Amyot, James; North, Thomas

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared Together by That Grave, Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea, with the Fifteen Supplementary Lives of 1603, in Five Volumes [Greeks, Romans]

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Poulton, T.L. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.

Limited edition, #1072 of 1550 copies, only 500 of which were sold in the U.S. Ink gift note and owner bookplate on front endpapers, spines a bit toned.

Complete in five volumes. Translated into English by Thomas North, from.....

Price: $300.00

Roberts, David

Voyage en Egypte

Verona: Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1995. Rachet, Guy; Simoen, Jean-Claude; Raffin, Gilbert. Large Softcover.

Spine faded, minor wear to corners.

92 pp. French text. An illustrated account of David Roberts' journey through Egypt, with 55 color reproductions of illustrations by Guy Rachet and Jean-Claude Simoen, and a route map by Gilbert.....

Price: $15.00

Roberts, Paul William

River in the Desert: Modern Travels in Ancient Egypt

New York: Random House, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Very good in good jacket. Crease down rear jacket flap, two light stains on jacket edges.

xiv, 394 pp. Journalist Paul Roberts takes us along as he scales the great pyramids, spends the night in an ancient tomb, navigates.....

Price: $7.00

Wilkinson, Toby A.H.

Early Dynastic Egypt

London / New York: Routledge, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Reprint. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

xviii, [4], 413 pp. Early Dynastic Egypt spans the five centuries preceding the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This was the formative period of ancient.....

Price: $25.00

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Egypt

The House of the Hidden Places: A Clue to the Creed of Early Egypt; and The Book of the Master; or, The Egyptian Doctrine of the Light Born of the Virgin Mother (The Ibis Western Mystery Tradition) [Egyptian Book of the Dead]

Gallus; or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus, with Notes and Excursuses Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans [with] Charicles; or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks, with Notes and Excursuses

History of Ancient Peoples

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum. The Egyptian Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation, a Running Translation, Introduction, Etc.

Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty [18th]

Rulers of the Ancient World: Alexander the Great; Julius Caesar; Nero; Hannibal; Cleopatra (The Folio Society)

Cleopatra: The Queen of Kings (DK Discoveries)

Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt

The Teachings of Osiris: Set Down in the House of El Eros-El Erua, They Being Male-Female, Born According to the Laws Governing the Dhuman-Adamic Race, This Being Their Fourth Incarnation

Dawn of Egyptian Art

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes, Compared Together by That Grave, Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea, with the Fifteen Supplementary Lives of 1603, in Five Volumes [Greeks, Romans]

Voyage en Egypte

River in the Desert: Modern Travels in Ancient Egypt

Early Dynastic Egypt

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