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Descrizione : LEPSIUS, Richard (1810–1884). Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai, in the Years 1842–1845, During the Mission Sent Out by His Majesty Frederick William IV. of Prussia. Edited by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie. London: Richard Bentley, 1852. 8vo. Half–title, tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved folding map, numerous in text vignettes (some mild browning to map). Original publisher’s blind–stamped blue cloth, gilt–lettered spine, by Remnant & Edmonds (binder’s ticket). (Spine darkened with some staining to covers). Provenance: I. H. Harrison (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of the English translation by Mackenzie. Lepsius, a celebrated German Egyptologist, was sent to Egypt by the King of Prussia at the urging of Bunsen and Humboldt to conduct historical and antiquarian research into the ancient Egyptian monuments in the valley of the Nile and the peninsula of Sinai. Assisted by several artists, he investigated the antiquities of the country during the years 1842 – 1845, sending 15,000 Egyptian antiquities and plaster casts back to Berlin. Ibrahim–Hilmy I:376, Gay 77, Blackmer 1008.
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