[EGYPT]. BINION, Samuel Augustus (1853–1914). Ancient Egypt or Mizraïm. New York: [American Polytechnic Co. for] Henry G. Allen & Company, [1887].
2 volumes, elephant folio (635 x 495 mm). 2 engraved titles, 72 lithograph plates (51 tinted or colored) after David Roberts and others. Original half full–grain morocco, all edges gilt (upper covers detached with several leaves still attached, spine perished on Vol. I, leather worn and dry–rotted).
LIMITED EDITION, number 462 of 800 copies from the “Edition de Luxe”. A SPECTACULAR PRODUCTION by an American Egyptologist that is considered to be an important landmark in American chromolithography. Blackmer 143.
[With:] PEET, Thomas Eric (1882–1934). The Great Tomb Robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty. Oxford: The Clarendon Press for the Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, 1930. 2 volumes including the atlas, folio and 8vo. Atlas: 39 hieroglyphic plates. Original cloth–backed boards (frayed at ends with some splitting, ex–library with call number on upper cover and card pocket at rear, remnants of original jacket laid in). Text volume: Original brown cloth (tiny spot of fraying at head, call number on spine). FIRST EDITION.