[EGYPTOLOGY] THE TOMB OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN BY HOWARD CARTER 1926-1927 VOLUMES I & II

[EGYPTOLOGY] THE TOMB OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN BY HOWARD CARTER 1926-1927 VOLUMES I & II

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[CARTER, HOWARD; MACE, A.C.]. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen: Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1926-1927.

Mixed states [vol. I: second impression, October 1926; vol. II: first edition, 1927]; in two volumes; cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (24cm x 16cm); pp. [xxiii], (1), 231; [xxxiv], 277. English text. Bound in publisher's original olive cloth with gilt lettering to front boards and spines, scarab motif in gilt and black on the front board of each volume; decorative endpapers; half-titles present; with 257 illustrations from photographs by Harry Burton (of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); vol. I with a sketch-plan of the tomb at rear; with appendices by Douglas E. Derry, A. Lucas, P.E. Newberry, Alexander Scott, and H.J. Plenderleith in Volume II. Printed by Butler & Tanner Ltd. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure. Covers largely clean with light bumping to spine ends. Some light scattered foxing mostly to preliminary leaves. Endpapers to vol.II with some old tape residue and an ex-libris plate front endpaper verso. A handsome set.

Notes: Howard Carter (1874 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (also known as "King Tut"), in November 1922. This is his popular account of his discovery, a work published in three volumes. Offered here are the first two volumes; a third volume was published in 1933.