8vo. 320 pp, 16 plates hors text including a frontis, 20 figures in text, 1 folding map at rear, modern half-calf with marbled boards, new marbled endpapers, publisher’s original wrappers preserved, index, pencil note on fly leaf & half-title page, otherwise copy clean & in very good condition, Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, new edition, 1922.

Synopsis

Alexandre Moret (1868-1938), French Egyptologist who studied under E. Lavisse and Maspero. He published ten of books about Egyptian antiquities and the history of the Orient.