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Description : Title: Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque Author: Georg Ebers - Georg Moritz Ebers, German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers Papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873–74. Now in the Library of the University of Leipzig, the Ebers Papyrus is among the most important ancient Egyptian medical papyri. It is one of two of the oldest preserved medical documents anywhere—the other being the Edwin Smith Papyrus (ca. 1600 BCE). (Courtesy of Wikipedia) Translor: Clara Bell - Clara Bell, nee Poynter, was an English translator fluent in French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish, noted for her translations of works by Henrik Ibsen, Balzac, Georg Ebers, Huysmans, Maupassant, and others. She was educated in France, where she became fluent in French and German, she did not acquire her knowledge of the other languages until after her fortieth birthday. She spent most of her life in London. Bell was born in Westminster to architect Ambrose Poynter and Emma Forster, her brother was Sir Edward Poynter, a director of the National Gallery. She was a distant relation of Edward Burne-Jones and Rudyard Kipling. She was married to banker Robert Courtenay Bell (1816–1896) with whom she had six children, one of whom was Charles Francis Bell, who oversaw the Fine Art Department of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Under the direction of George Saintsbury, Bell, Ellen Marriage, and Rachel Scott were responsible for translating the vast majority of Balzac's Human Comedy into English, superseding earlier translations that had generally been regarded as stilted. The low pay that translators received at that time required Bell and her colleagues to complete work quickly, but her translations have nonetheless been noted for their close adherence to the source texts, and their high degree of readability.(Courtesy of Wikipedia) Publisher: Cassell & Company, Limited City: London Year: 1880/1883 Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes Width: 12.5 Height: 15.25 Book Details: Condition / Notes: This antique folio set is bound in blind-stamped brown cloth over beveled boards, with stamped gilt lettering and elaborate pictorial designs offering Egyptian motifs. The books show light external wear, with minor loss at the outside corners and minor fraying at the top/bottom of the spines. The bindings are firm. The volumes have gilt edges and chocolate brown endpapers. The front flyleaves show creasing. The pages of the first volume exhibit sporadic light foxing, those of the second are clean and bright. This work is lavishly illustrated with full-page and in-text illustrations depicting ancient and contemporary Egypt, with the monumental architecture and relics of the past together with views of Cairo and the sites and people of 19th-century Egypt seen from a European perspective. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $16.50
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