1767 RARE Observations Dissertations Ancient Egypt Maps and Plates

Observations and inquiries relating to various parts of ancient history; containing dissertations on the wind Euroclydon, and on the island Melite, together with an account of Egypt in its most early

First edition. Volume I. Publishers brown cloth with blind-stamped borders. Gilt title to spine. Colour endpapers. Colour map frontispiece. 5 full-page plates. In-text woodcuts. A very nice copy. Publ

Title: RARE map of Cairo, Egypt. With Sphinx and pyramids. c1600 by Matteo Florimi. Siena, Italy Date/Period: c1600 Materials: Copper plate engraved Size: 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches. Description: Hand col

Title: Ancient Egypt Terracotta rare funerary mask of a male figure, Late Period, Circa 722-332 BC Description: This rare sarcophagus mask has a serene gaze of a soft earthy red colour. It preserves n

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, reign of Akhenaten (formally Amenhotep IV), ca. 1353 to 1336 BCE. An incredible, mold-formed faience vessel known as a lotus bottle covere

Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period, Naqada III, ca. 3200 to 3000 BCE. An exquisite bifacial blade of an elongated ovoid form that is painstakingly knapped from creamy beige-hued flint with integral inc

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 22nd Dynasty, ca. 1069 to 720 BCE. A beautiful and sizable example of an ushabti that is hand-carved from yellowed limestone

Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, probably 12th Dynasty (XII Dynasty), ca. 1991 to 1802 BCE. An impressively large, cast bronze battle axe, of a form identified by Flinders Petrie as from the 12th Dynast

Ancient Egypt, First Intermediate Period, 8th to 9th Dynasty, ca. 2181 to 2140 BCE. Perhaps one of the most unique and unusual Egyptian artifacts, a hand-carved black obsidian amulet known as a pesesh

Bernard Ratzer "Plan of the City of New York". Signed lower right in the plate "T. Kitchin Sculpt" (Kitchin recorded the cartographer's name as Ratzen (sic) rather than Ratzer). The map backed, rolled

Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Greco-Roman periods, ca. 712 to 30 BCE. An amazing, rare artifact from a culture whose enigmatic funerary rituals hint at a truly lost way of life, this is a painted wo

Ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic to Roman Period, ca. 304 BCE to 364 CE. An incredibly rare standing figure of Nephthys, goddess of death and darkness and one of the oldest deities in the Egyptian pantheon -

Back at auction due to non-paying bidder? Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom to Late Dynastic Period, 18th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 332 BCE. An incredibly rare set of raw frit balls used to create a myria

Ancient Egypt, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 300 BCE. A rare mummy linen textile fragment with hieratic script in black ink, which is a section of text from the Egyptian Book of the Dead (or the Book of

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 1070 to 30 BCE. An incredibly rare, mold-formed faience plaque depicting not 1 but 2 Egyptian deities associated with war - the striding male

**Originally Listed At $3500** Ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 2nd to late 1st century BCE. A fine and rare limestone sculptor's model depicting Taweret, the amalgam goddess of marriage and prote

Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Greco-Roman periods, ca. 712 to 30 BCE. An amazing, rare artifact from a culture whose enigmatic funerary rituals hint at a truly lost way of life, this is a painted wo

1747 1ed Bible History Creation Noah Flood EGYPT Cosmogony MAPS Pyramids The “Universal History” is a mid-18th-century history of the world. Written by numerous authors and contributors, this enor

Ancient Roman Egypt Glass Vessel c.1st century AD. Size 28 mm. Rare Blue and white glass vessel. Condition: bottom of the vessel Damaged otherwise perfect. Provenance: from the estate of Robert Thomps

An exceptional and rare early Japanese map, hand painted, depicting China from the Zhou or Qin Dynasty. The map depicts the Chinese Nine Zhou, or provinces, utilizing nomenclature used in Japan circa

**Originally Listed At $3500** Ancient Near East, Eastern Turkey, Iran, and Armenia, Urartu culture, Iron Age, ca. 7th century BCE. An incredibly rare collection of bronze armor plates from the ancien

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Egypt; Ptolemaic- Roman Period, c. 1st century BC- 1st century AD Extremely rare and sought after examples of ancient glass, these seven fragments depict sheaves of wheat, daffodils, tulips, etc. in y

Middle East.- Roberts (David) The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 6 vol. in 3, 248 tinted lithograph plates (including titles) and 2 engraved maps, occasional light foxing, corner of