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First printing. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 202 pp. including index. Illustrated. Moderate wear to the spine ends and corners. Previous owner's bookplate is on the front pastedown. There is one narrow gutter crack. Othewise fine.

Demy octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], full gilt-embossed amber-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. vii, 202, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. THE PAPER ON THE FORE & AFT HINGES HAS PARTIALLY COME LOOSE; BOTH HINGES ARE OTHERWISE QUITE SOUND Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . "Cleopatra's Needle" featured the first time that print in hieroglyphic type was ever issued in America. . Charles Edward Moldenke was born in Lyck, Prussia [now Poland]. He graduated from Columbia in1879 and in1884, he was awarded his Ph.D. from Strasbourg University. His other published works include: "Die altegyptischen Texten erwaehnten Baeume und deren Verwerthung (Trees mentioned in ancient Egyptian texts and their utilization", (His inaugural dissertation). Leipzig, 1886 and New York 1887) . "The Egyptian Origin of Our Alphabet", (1886) . "The World's most Ancient Fairy-Tale, the Two Brothers," (1887 and 1898) In Hieratic, [i.e. a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing simpler than the hieroglyphic], and Egyptian Classics (1900).

First printing. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 202 pp. including index. Illustrated. Moderate wear to the spine ends and corners. Previous owner's bookplate is on the front pastedown. There is one narrow gutter crack. Othewise fine.