THE SCEPTER OF EGYPT: A BACKGROUND FOR THE STUDY OF THE EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART [2 VOLUMES] - VOLUME ONE: FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, VOLUME TWO: THE HYKSOS PERIOD AND NEW KINGDOM
Book Details + Condition: Harper Brothers and Harvard University Press (New York and Cambridge). First Editions, 1953 and 1959. Complete two-volume hardcover set with dust jackets. Pagination: 437pp; 496pp, and includes Bibliographies and Index. Beautifully illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs throughout, with a fold-out of map. Comprehensive set studying the Egyptian Antiquities housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. For both volumes: firm binding; light wear to boards; a bit of foxing to text block; Parker's info to ffep; interior is clean and free of markings. Dust jackets show normal aging and wear, mainly at extremities; they retain their original prices.
