Lot 525

Egyptology.- Lepsius (Karl Richard) Das Todtenbuch der Ägypter nach dem Hieroglyphischen Papyrus in Turin, a landmark work of Egyptology, which includes the first use of the term 'Book of the Dead'. Leipzig, Georg Wigand, 1842.

 

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Egyptology.- Lepsius (Karl Richard) Das Todtenbuch der Ägypter nach dem Hieroglyphischen Papyrus in Turin, 79 lithographed plates printed in red and black, of which 2 double-page and 1 folding, some spotting, mostly to German text, original printed wrappers bound in, modern calf, gilt spine in compartments, 4to, Leipzig, Georg Wigand, 1842.

⁂ A landmark work of Egyptology, which includes the first use of the term 'Book of the Dead' to describe the corpus of funerary scrolls. Furthermore, this first modern edition of a 'Book of the Dead' 'established the standard numbering system for its spells that remains in use today' (J. Taylor, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Journey through the afterlife, London, 2010.p.289).

Description

Egyptology.- Lepsius (Karl Richard) Das Todtenbuch der Ägypter nach dem Hieroglyphischen Papyrus in Turin, 79 lithographed plates printed in red and black, of which 2 double-page and 1 folding, some spotting, mostly to German text, original printed wrappers bound in, modern calf, gilt spine in compartments, 4to, Leipzig, Georg Wigand, 1842.

⁂ A landmark work of Egyptology, which includes the first use of the term 'Book of the Dead' to describe the corpus of funerary scrolls. Furthermore, this first modern edition of a 'Book of the Dead' 'established the standard numbering system for its spells that remains in use today' (J. Taylor, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: Journey through the afterlife, London, 2010.p.289).

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