Author: Naville, Edouard, T. Hayter Lewis, J. J. Tylor, F. Ll. Griffith.
Title: Ahnas El Medineh (Heracleopolis Magna). With Chapters on Mendes, the Nome of Thoth, and Leontopolis. With Appendix on Byzantine Sculptures. [BOUND WITH:] The Tomb of Paheri at El Kab. Eleventh [11th] Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. [TWO WORKS IN ONE].
Description: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner; B. Quaritch; Egypt Exploration Fund, 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two works bond in one. Royal quarto. I: Pp. 39, (1). Half-title, divisional-title. Set in double columns. Plus frontispiece and 17 plates, of which 5 are lithographic and 12 are photographic, printed in collotype, some with multiple images. Including a coloured map drawn by Prof. Erman. II: Pp. vi including 2nd divisional-title, (i), 34. Plus 10 lithographic plates, mostly fold-out or double-page, these with scholarly pencil annotations and hieroglyphic writing in neat contemporary hand. Text illustrations; indices. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's cloth and printed boards; spine worn in places, paper on boards scuffed in places, inner hinges cracked. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. [Provenance:] A signature "Gunn" to first flyleaf. Most likely identifying this as the working copy of renowned Egyptologist Battiscombe George Gunn (1883-1950), with his pencil annotations, cross-references, hieroglyphic writing, etc. to some of the plates ad their verso. OSIRIS-7 .

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