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Three Years in the Libyan Desert - Travels, Discoveries, and Excavations of the Menas Expedition (Kaufmann Expedition).
by LIBYA. FALLS, J.C. Ewald
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About This Item
T. Fisher Unwin, London., 1913. First U.K. edition. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Lee. Octavo. pp xii, 356. Original gilt pictorial cloth. With the pencilled ownership signature on the front free endpaper of the scholar and archaeologist Neville Chittick who specialised in the historic societies of North-East Africa, and with his autograph note on the half-title and occasional marginal pencilled notes and underlinings in the text. Also he has mounted newspaper cuttings on the pastedowns and free endpapers.Cloth a little snagged at head of spine. Lower cover a little stained. Sporadic light foxing. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LIBYA003928
- Title
- Three Years in the Libyan Desert - Travels, Discoveries, and Excavations of the Menas Expedition (Kaufmann Expedition).
- Author
- LIBYA. FALLS, J.C. Ewald
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin, London.
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- libya north africa egypt
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