Author: Mattha, Girgis.
Title: Demotic Ostraka [Ostraca] from the Collections at Oxford, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo. Introduction, Texts and Indexes. With 27 Plates. (Publications de la Sociéte Fouad I de Papyrologie, Textes et Documents VI).
Description: Le Caire, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Royal quarto. Pp. xviii, 262. Plus 27 plates with a total of 274 images. HARDCOVER, bound in splendid contemporary wine-red morocco and matching pebbled boards, spine in compartments between 5 gilt-tooled raise bands, direct gilt lettering to 2 compartments, gilt decoration and publishing date to spine ends; beautiful endpaper, cloth inner hinges, original wrapper, printed in red and black on washed blue paper bound-in. Exquisite copy in mint condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Publications de la Sociéte Fouad I de Papyrologie, Textes et Documents VI. Girgis Mattha (1905-1967). [Provenance:] From the library of renowned Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011). Bequeathed to him by Prof. Marcel Hombert (1900-1992). A presentation letter to that effect, signed April 1992 by Georges Nachtergael (1934-2009) of Fondation Égyptologique Reine Elisabeth, is loosely inserted. Beinlich-Seeber 13392. HATHOR-7 .

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