Henri Gauthier — Le Livres Des Rois D&Apos;Egypte

Cairo, French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, 1907-1914. Cloth. Three volumes of a scarce and fascinating history of the rulers of Ancient Egypt, stretching from their origins to the Twenty-Fourth Dynasty, including Ramases III. Le Livre de Rois Égypte (The Book of the Kings of Egypt), including royal titles, proper names, pyramids, and solar temples, written by French egyptologist and georgapher Henri Gauthier, published between 1907-1914. The first three volumes out of five volumes of this particular work, and volumes XVII-XIX of the Memoirs of The French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, a series edited by E. Chassinat, and by M. Pierre Lacau for Volume XIX.  last two volumes were published later. In the publisher's original blue cloth, with numerous in-text illustrations of hieroglyphs throughout.Due to the number of discoveries being made in Egyptology during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gauthier has updated a history of the Pharoahs and Kings which ruled this fascinating civilization. Gauthier was one of the Egyptologists who discovered Huni's pyramid in 1909, a Pharoah within the third dynasty of the Old Kingdom.Volume I - From the Origins to the Twelfth Dynasty. (Volume XVII of series, 1907). Contains a publisher's original advertisement to preface.Volume II - From the Thirteenth to the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. (Volume XVIII of series, 1912).Volume III - From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-Fourth Dynasty. (Volume XIX of series, 1914). In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally, smart, with the odd handling mark. Slight rubbing to joints and bumping to heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities. Minor fading to spines. Offsetting to free end papers, and the odd faint spot to pastedown extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning to first and final leaves. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Unknown. Very Good Indeed .