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VERY RARE -
SCARCE FIRST EDITION - FIRST ISSUE
RARE LIMITED EDITION of an UNCOMMON
EDITION
COMPLETE WITH 170 PHOTO ENGRAVED
ILLUSTRATIONS
FINE ORIGINAL MOROCCO LEATHER BINDING
ORIGINAL WOODCUT ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS
THE TOMB OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN
Discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter
by
HOWARD CARTER & A. C. MACE , Associate
Curator
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
LONDON: Cassell and Company. 1923 (Published date 1923-27). Rare First
Edition,
First printing in 2 volumes. 4to. 9.5" x 7" inches (LxB). Pp. xxiii,
[1], 231, [1, Colophon]; xxxiv, 277, [1, Colophon] pages, complete with
168 numbered plates. In the original publisher's brown cloth gilt
bindings with gilt lettering on the spine & front cover & with
decorative gold scarabs over black backgrounds on the front covers,
patterned endpapers. Rare True 1st English edition of Carter’s famous
publication of the discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tut Ankh Amen, in
original condition.
Volume one with a frontispiece and seventy-nine
photographic plates and one plan. Volume two with a frontispiece and
eighty-eight photographic plates. All First editions of this book are now
scarce and very desirable.
This first detailed account, richly
illustrated with hundreds of plates after photographs taken by Harry
Burton, includes images from the discovery of Tut's sepulchral chamber,
the excavation of the site and hundreds of catalogued artifacts. In 1903
Carter was transferred to the inspectorate of Lower Egypt with
headquarters at Tanta… Five years later (1908)… Carter returned in order
to superintend the excavations in the necropolis at Thebes being
conducted by George Herbert, fifth Earl of Carnarvon [q.v.]. During the
war of 1914-1918, among other discoveries, he found and cleared the long
sought for tomb of Amenophis I. On 4 November 1922 he made the great
discovery which will always be associated with his name, the tomb of
King Tutankhamen with its extraordinary wealth of artistic treasures.
Carter's records of the objects found and his handling and packing of
them for transport down the Nile to Cairo were a most brilliant
achievement and occupied no less than ten seasons (1922-1932). He
published The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen and he had hoped to publish the full
catalogue of all objects found, but his health failed and the work was
unfinished" (DNB). Volume 2 followed in 1927 & a third volume was
published later in 1930. An attractive set, uncommon especially
complete.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Tutankhamun
Carter (1874
– 1939) was an English Egyptologist and archaeologist who studied under
Flinders Petrie, and is most well remembered for his November 1922
discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Famously,
Lord Carnarvon was frustrated by several years of Carter’s digs in the
Valley and was prepared to cease the excavations, but Carter convinced
him to fund one more season—which resulted in the discovery of the most
famous pharaonic tomb ever discovered in the Valley. Tutankhamen was the
18th dynasty (1341 – 1323 BC) Egyptian Pharoah of the new kingdom, after
his father Akhenaten (a pseudo-monotheistic pharaoh who was probably
considered heretical to the priests of the prior Egyptian religions).
Tutankhamen’s tomb and mummy were exceptionally well preserved at the
time of their discovery in 1922. The results of this excavation remain a
wonder and source of study to this day.
Carter, Howard
(1874-1939), artist and archaeologist. "In the summer of 1922 Carter
persuaded Carnarvon to allow him to conduct one more campaign in the
valley. Starting work earlier than usual Howard Carter opened up the
stairway to the tomb of Tutankhamun on 4 November 1922. Carnarvon
hurried to Luxor and the tomb was entered on 26 November. The discovery
astounded the world: a royal tomb, mostly undisturbed, full of
spectacular objects. Carter recruited a team of expert assistants to
help him in the clearance of the tomb, and the conservation and
recording of its remarkable contents. On 16 February 1923 the blocking
to the burial chamber was removed, to reveal the unplundered body and
funerary equipment of the dead king. Unhappily, the death of Lord
Carnarvon on 5 April seriously affected the subsequent progress of
Carter's work. In spite of considerable and repeated bureaucratic
interference, not easily managed by the short-tempered excavator, work
on the clearance of the tomb proceeded slowly, but was not completed
until 1932. Carter handled the technical processes of clearance,
conservation, and recording with exemplary skill and care. The Tomb of
Tut.ankh.Amen (1923-33), the first of which was substantially written by
his principal assistant, Arthur C. Mace" (ODNB).
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