Goyon, Jean-Claude. - Confirmation du pouvoir royal au Nouvel An. [Brooklyn Museum Papyrus 47.218.50]. (Bibliothèque d'Études, LII; Wilbour Monographs, VII). I. Text; II. Plates. [TWO VOLUMES].

Le Caire, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale; New York, Brooklyn Museum, 1972-74. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. I. Text: Quarto. Pp. (ii), 142. Plus 9 plates. Text figures and full-page tables. Original decorated wrappers, spine ends bit cdreased. In a very good condition, fine interior. [AND:] II. Plates. Folio. (ii), plus 30 plates. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering on green labels. In fine condition, crisp interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. With the rare Corrigenda loosely inserted. The Text volume appeared in 1972 as volume LII of the Bibliothèque d'Études. It provides the text volume of a joint Cairo-Brooklyn undertaking. The Brooklyn Museum published the Plate volume two years later as volume VII in the Wilbour Monographs. [ADDED:] The rare original extended Corrigenda list to the Text Volume, listing 23 corrections and revisions to the "Commentaire et Notes à la Traduction" section. It was issued separately two years after the publication of the book and is of considerable importance to the correct reading of the text though practically no longer available. [ALSO ADDED:] In 1982, Dieter Kurth published an extended review of Goyon's book with an long list of faults and omissions in the Plates Volume as well as an extended list of comments on entries in the Text Volume. The original offprint of this important review is herewith added. [Provenance:] From the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011). X-4 .

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