EGYPT

EGYPT -
[Lepsius, Karl
Richard] (?).

Iconography of the Pharaohs (title on the back). With 103 mounted lithographic portraits on

102 plates.

Without place and publisher [Berlin, 1856?]. Folio (32 x 26.6 cm). Red half-leather binding of the period with gilt title on spine, spine gilt and blind-tooled covers as well as 1 clasp (slightly dusty and rubbed, rear joint at the capitals slightly cracked

).
Cf. WorldCat 25810772 (not bibliographically verifiable for us). - Only one location can be traced through WorldCat: the "Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Collections Jacques Doucet" (Paris), where it is listed as "Le nom de l'auteur presume: C.R. Lepsius, est ajouté au crayon" and also with 102 plates, also as here without text or title. - Not in the very extensive list of references to the writings of Lepsius in the holdings of the library of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, which can be accessed via the Internet. - The beautiful portraits with the name of the corresponding pharaoh in hieroglyphic writing and (mostly) in Latin transcription. - The backing paper slightly dusty and partly slightly stained in the corners, the illustrations mostly clean and fresh.
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