[ARCHAEOLOGY]. RAMBOVA, Natacha (1897-1966), editor. Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations. New York: Pantheon Books, 1954-1957.

3 works in 5 volumes, folio. Includes: The Tomb of Ramesses VI. 1954. 2 volumes. Part I: text. Part II: 196 plates loose in box as issued, both in original cloth with dust jackets, slipcases (spine tear to plate volume); The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon. 1955. Original cloth with dust jacket, slipcase; Mythological Papyri. 1957. 2 volumes. Part I: text. Part II: 30 folding plates loose in box as issued, both in original cloth, slipcases (lacking dust jackets).

FIRST EDITIONS. Natacha Rambova began her career as a film costume designer, set designer, and occasional actress, and in later life she shifted her focus to the study of Egyptology. Much of her research is preserved as part of the Natacha Rambova Archive at Yale University.

[With]: LANGDON, Stephen Herbert (1876-1937) and WATELIN, Louis-Charles (1874-1934). Excavations at Kish, Expedition to Mesopotamia. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste,, 1924-1934. 3 volumes, 4to. 111 plates. Original maroon cloth (rubbing, light soiling, sunning to spines). FIRST EDITIONS. The product of a joint expedition between the Chicago Field Museum and Oxford University, there is some controversy surrounding these works as it is commonly believed that a second volume, though implied, was never actually published.