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Egypt - Antiquities - Early works to 1800

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A Concise history of the antiquities of Egypt. Containing, an account of the antient Egyptians; the grandeur of their publick buildings; obelisks, pyramids, Lake of M̂D oeris, the Nile, the famous canal between the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean, with a curious map thereof. Also the manners, customs, laws, learning and government of the Egyptians. Likewise their manner of treating dead bodies; method of embalming; and particular way of trying and judging persons after their death. With seven large and curious copper plate prints of Egyptian Mummies, exactly drawn; with their hieroglyphic characters, interpreted and explained. Inscribed to the Members of the Royal Society. Taken from the works of Mr. Rollin. With some account of sir Hans Sloan, his antiquities and curiosities, with an abstract of his last will.
Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]
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Report of the Commission of Arts to the First Consul Bonaparte on the antiquities of upper Egypt, and the present state of all the temples, palaces, obelisks, statues, tombs, pyramids, &c. of philœ, syene, thebes, tentyris, latopolis, memphis, heliopolis, &c. &c. From the cataracts of the Nile to Cairo: with an accurate description of the pictures with which they are decorated, and the conjectures that may be drawn from them, respecting the divinities to whom they were consecrated. Translated from the French of citizen Ripaud, librarian to the institute of Egypt.
Ripault, Louis-Madeleine, 1775-1823.Date: 1800