LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Book Details + Condition: MacMillan and Co. (New York). By Adolf Erman, and translated by H.M. Tirard. First Edition, 1894. Includes 400 illustrations in the text, and 11 plates. 570 pages. Measures 10" x 7". Maroon boards with gilt decorations on front and on spine. From a later edition jacket: "One of the most influential and frequently consulted works on Egyptology ever written. [Erman] examines ancient Egypt's political structure, crime and police systems, domestic life and kinships, dress, amusements, religion, learning, mathematics, magic and folk beliefs, literature, art, agriculture, trades, arts and crafts, commerce, warfare, and much else." In very good condition: tight binding; light shelf wear to boards; rubbed corners; lightly faded spine; intermittent foxing to pages (some none, some a bit, and some much more); interior is otherwise free of markings.
