THE NILE: NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT
Book Details + Condition: Thos. Cook & Son (London and Cairo). Early 6th edition from 1898. By Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge. 443 pages, illustrated throughout with maps, plans, diagrams, hieroglyphics, and other images. Flexible covers with marbled endpapers and marbled text block. In very good condition: Firm binding; minor wear to covers; slight lean to book; interior is clean and free of markings, save a few old pencilled notes on ffep.
E.A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920. E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England. (Bowker Author Biography)
