[EGYPTOLOGY] THE TOMB OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN, HOWARD CARTER 1926-1933 IN THREE VOLUMES

Description: [CARTER, HOWARD (1874-1939); MACE, A.C.]. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen: Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1926-1933. Mixed states [vol. I: second impression, October 1926; vol. II: first edition, 1927; vol. III: first edition, 1933]. Complete in three volumes; cloth-bound; hardcovers; octavos (24cm x 16cm); pp. xxiii, 231; xxxiv, 277; xvi, 248. English text. Bound in publisher's original olive cloth with gilt lettering to front boards and spines, scarab motif in gilt and black on the front board of each volume; decorative endpapers; half-titles and frontispieces present in each volume; complete with 414 illustrations from photographs by Harry Burton (of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); vol. I with a sketch-plan of the tomb at rear; indexes in double columns; with appendices by Douglas E. Derry, A. Lucas, P.E. Newberry, Alexander Scott, and H.J. Plenderleith in Volume II & III. Printed by Butler & Tanner Ltd. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight, secure and square. Trivial marks to covers. Contents largely clean with some light scattered foxing mostly to volumes 2&3. Without previous ownership markings. Lacking dust wrappers. A scarce complete set and very well-preserved. Notes: Rare complete set of famed British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter's popular account of the discovery of the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (also known as "King Tut"), in November 1922. Volume I by Carter and Mace. Volumes II and III by Howard Carter alone. In the original brown cloth with gilt scarab in the centre of the front panel with black background, all letters in gilt, with decorated endpapers. Volume I with 105 illustrations, Volume II with 153 illustrations and Volume III with 156 illustrations. These illustrations are in fact photographs by Harry Burton of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. International tracked shipping - dispatched promptly and securely. Please view my other rare books.

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Binding: Cloth

Place of Publication: London

Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military

Language: English

Illustrator: Harry Burton

Special Attributes: Illustrated, Mixed Editions [2nd, 1st, 1st]

Author: CARTER, HOWARD and MACE, A.C.

Publisher: Cassell

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

Original/Facsimile: Original

Year Printed: 1926