This is the rating and price for Alan H Gardiner / T Eric Peet The Inscriptions Of Sinai 1917 Antique Archaeology Egyptian Exploration Fund Hieroglyphs Folio Plates & Maps, 1917

Description : Title: The Inscriptions of Sinai Author: Alan H. Gardiner - Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner was one of the premier British Egyptologists of the early and mid-20th century. Some of his most important publications include a 1959 book on his study of The Royal Canon of Turin and his seminal 1961 work Egypt of the Pharaohs, which covered all aspects of Egyptian chronology and history at the time of publication. Two major contributions to ancient Egyptian philology by Gardiner are his famous three editions of Egyptian Grammar and its correlated list of all the Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs in Gardiner's Sign List. Publishing Egyptian Grammar produced one of the few available hieroglyphic printing fonts. In 1915 Gardiner was also able to crack the so-called Proto-Sinaitic writing system by deciphering the B'alat inscriptions. He was educated at Charterhouse and Queens College, Oxford, he was later a student of the famous egyptologist Kurt Heinrich Sethe in Berlin. , T. Eric Peet - Thomas Eric Peet (12 August 1882, Liverpool – 22 February 1934, Oxford) was an English Egyptologist. Publisher: Bernard Quaritch City: London Year: 1917 Printing Information: First Edition Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 1 Full Set: No Pagination: 19 pages plus 86 plates Width: 14.25 Height: 18 Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is the first of a two-volume edition of this work by the Egypt Exploration Fund, with this part presenting the introduction and plates. This folio is bound in quarter black cloth and green paper-covered boards. The book shows external wear, with tearing and loss visible to the edges of the spine cover. The covers display light soiling. Minor loss can be seen at the outside corners. The front hinge is cracked. The endpapers are lightly soiled and smudged. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $9.50
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