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Lot 120

BELZONI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA)
Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, 2 vol. (text and Atlas), John Murray, 1821-1822 (2)

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Complete copy, with both text and atlas volumes, of one of the most influential and visually impressive works on Egyptology, written by "one of the most striking and interesting figures in the history of Eastern travel" (ODNB). This edition "includes the appendix by Thomas Young on the hieroglyphs, pp.485-533, not always found in the first edition" (Atabey).

Provenance: Ivor Noël Hume OBE, FSA, archaeologist and author. His works include Historical Archaeology (1969), and Belzoni: the Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate (2011), a signed first edition of which is included in the lot. In his Preface to Belzoni, Noël Hume notes that "Most rewarding of all... has been the pleasure of possessing my own [the present] copy of Belzoni's intensely personal and provocative 1821 Narrative of the Operations... without which Giovanni and Sarah Belzoni would long ago have been forgotten".

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