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    25 February 1998

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    Lot 211

    [EGYPT]. DAVIES, NORMAN DE GARIS and ALAN HENDERSON GARDINER. [The Theban Tomb Series]. The Robb de Peyster Tytus Memorial Series of the Metropolitan Museum. The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes -- The Tomb of Puyemre at Thebes. 2 volumes -- The Tomb of Two Sculptors at Thebes -- Two Ramesside Tombs at Thebes. All New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917-25. 182 plates, some colored. Together 5 volumes, folio, volumes 1, 4, and 5: original half calf; volumes 2 and 3: original wrappers, uncut, volume 4: lower cover detached. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 sets. (5)

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    USD 2,530

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    USD 600 - USD 800

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    [EGYPT]. DAVIES, NORMAN DE GARIS and ALAN HENDERSON GARDINER. [The Theban Tomb Series]. The Robb de Peyster Tytus Memorial Series of the Metropolitan Museum. The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes -- The Tomb of Puyemre at Thebes. 2 volumes -- The Tomb of Two Sculptors at Thebes -- Two Ramesside Tombs at Thebes. All New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917-25. 182 plates, some colored. Together 5 volumes, folio, volumes 1, 4, and 5: original half calf; volumes 2 and 3: original wrappers, uncut, volume 4: lower cover detached. LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 sets. (5)

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