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A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ANCIENT EGYPT

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A COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ANCIENT EGYPT
Including T. Säve-Söderbergh, Private Tombs at Thebes, Four Eighteenth Dynasty Tombs, Oxford, 1957, inscribed by Nina de Garis Davies; N. de Garis Davies, Seven Private Tombs at Kurnah, London, 1948, inscribed by Nina de Garis Davies; N. de Garis Davies, The Tomb of the Vizier Ramose, London, 1941; H. Frankfort (ed.), The Mural Painting of El-'Amarneh, London, 1929, inscribed by Nina de Garis Davies; W. K. Simpson and W. M. Davis (eds), Studies in Ancient Egypt, The Aegean and The Sudan; Essays in honor of Dows Dunham, Boston, 1981, inscribed by D. Dunham; T. E. Peet, The Great Tomb-Robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty, New York, 1977; C. Desroches Noblecourt, L'Ancienne Egypte, L'Extraordinaire Aventure Amarnienne, Paris, 1960, inscribed by the author to C. Aldred; A. H. Gardiner, The Attitude of the Ancient Egyptians to Death and the Dead, Cambridge, 1935; A.E.P. Weigall, Travels in the Upper Egyptian Deserts, London, 1909, inscribed by Charles Wilkinson to C. Aldred; and a quantity of offprints from journals(a lot)
Provenance
From the library of the late Cyril Aldred; items one to four from the library of Nina de Garis Davis. See also lot 124.
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Lot Essay

Cyril Aldred (1914-1991) was a noted Egyptologist, historian, author and Keeper of Art and Archaeology at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Nina de Garis Davies (1881-1965) was an artist who, with her husband Norman de Garis Davies, recorded many Theban tombs using egg tempera to reproduce colours as exactly as possible. She worked at Thebes for over thirty years and, also, at Amarna and Beni Hasan.

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