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An Egyptian Bestiary: Animals in Life and Religion in the Land of the Pharaohs
by Germond, Philippe and Jacques Livet
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG (scuffing to cloth; light sunning to edges. spine top bumped; corners bumped. dustjacket has edge-wear; scuffs & scratches
- ISBN 10
- 0500510598
- ISBN 13
- 9780500510599
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2001. Hardcover. VG/VG (scuffing to cloth; light sunning to edges. spine top bumped; corners bumped. dustjacket has edge-wear; scuffs & scratches; tear to upper spine edge; rubbing to corners). Black cloth with white lettering on spine. Color-illustrated dust jacket, blue-green spine with white lettering. Illustrated endpages/flyleaves, 224 pp. 280 color illustrations. "Of all the world's early civilizations, it was that of ancient Egypt that fostered the closest relationship with the animal world. All aspects of life, both secular and sacred, gave prominent place to man's involvement with living creatures of every kind. ... [This book shows] the incomparable richness of the pharaonic fauna in all forms of artistic expression -- painting, sculpture, relief carving, architectural ornamentation and hieroglyphs -- ranging from astonishing realism in the depiction of birds and beasts, both wild and domesticated, with which the people of the Nile Valley came into daily contact, to hieratic stylization in portraying the pantheon of animal-headed gods and the sacred and fabulous creatures that inhabited the ancient Egyptians' devotional, funerary and magic world." (dj).
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 147330
- Title
- An Egyptian Bestiary: Animals in Life and Religion in the Land of the Pharaohs
- Author
- Germond, Philippe and Jacques Livet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG (scuffing to cloth; light sunning to edges. spine top bumped; corners bumped. dustjacket has edge-wear; scuffs & scratches
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0500510598
- ISBN 13
- 9780500510599
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Classical Decorative Arts; Egyptian Art; Animals ; Egyptian Art ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classical Art/Antiquities;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Biblio member since 2004
Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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