This is the rating and price for Alan H Gardiner / T Eric Peet The Inscriptions Of Sinai 1917 Antique British Egyptology & Archaeology Large Folio Plates Maps, 1917

Description : Title: The Inscriptions of Sinai: Introduction and Plates 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: The Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund [and five others] City: London Year: 1917 Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 1 Full Set: No Pagination: 19 pages plus 86 plates Width: 14 Height: 18 Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is the first installment only in this series, containing the introductory text and the plates. The antique large folio volume is bound in printed paper-covered boards with a cloth backstrip. This volume lacks its spine cover. The front hinge is cracked. There is moderate rubbing and edge wear, heaviest at the corners. The text block is solid. An ex-library bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. The pages show mild age toning and some scattered marginal smudging. The work is profusely illustrated with 86 plates depicting maps and artifacts. 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: $10.50
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