Meisterwerke der ägyptischen Kunst, 1948 HC

Meisterwerke der ägyptischen Kunst Author: Ranke, Hermann Publisher: Holbein Release Date: 1948 Seller Category: EGYPTIAN ART Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Very Good Sku: 00497 Notes: Scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available. Great-looking, structurally sound hardcover copy, pumpkin-colored cloth bindings, lightly sunned along bottom edge, else clean and bright of interior. Gilt over stamped illustration, inset, to front cover, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket rotected by a paper-backed Brodart sleeve, moderately worn of front and rear panels, chipping to spine bottom and top near spine at front panel, but featuring a fine work from ancient Egypt of a weaver plying her loom. 28 pp., and with 64 plates. The Wikipedia entry about Heinrich Johannes Hermann Ranke (August 5, 1878 – April 22, 1953) notes that he was a German Egyptologist who worked at the University of Heidelberg. "He was forced to leave during the Nazi regime as his wife had Jewish an