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PERSIA. (2). BRUGSCH, HEINRICH. Reise der K. Preussischen Gesandtschaft nach Persien 1860 und 1861. I-II. Leipzig (J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung) 1862.
8:o. (7), VIII-XIV, (1)-418, (2), IV-X, (1)-514, (2) pp. 1 lithograph frontispiece portrait (some foxing), 1 folding lithograph map, coloured in outline, 7 coloured lithograph plates after E. Weidenbach (minor foxing) and 5 woodcut plates, woodcuts in the text.
Contemporary gilt red cloth, slightly worn. First endpaper and halftitle to vol. I cut in upper margin. Minor foxing. First edition. 2 volumes.
Heinrich Karl Brugsch (also Brugsch-Pasha,(1827 -1894), German Egyptologist. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis. He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producing numerous very valuable works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic, the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods. (Wikipedia).
Provenance: From the library of Ove Hassler (1904-87), Dean in Linköping, Sweden, and his son, Eivind Hassler (1939-2009).

Auktionsnummer:

6172

Datum:

2016-06-21