Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
March 1886
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/40
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    31979 BRUGSCH (H.) die Sage von der geflagelten Sonnenscheibe nach | altigyptischen Quellen, 4to. sd. 2s 6d Gott. 1870 31980 —_——— Drei Fest-Kalender des Tempels von Apollinopolis Magna in Ober-Aegypten, sm. folio, 10 plates, bds. 12s Leip. 1877 31981 ————— Hieroglyphische Grammatik, sm. folio, bds. 10s Leipzig, 1872 31982 ———-— Reise nach der grossen Oase el Khargeh, Beschreibung ihrer Denkmiler, Untersuchungen tiber das Vorkommen der Oasen in den altaégyptischen Inschriften, sm. folio, 27 plates, bds. 24s Leipzig, 1878 The writing of the ancient Egyptians was of three kinds and three periods —namely, the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic. The hieroglyphic, which is of unknown antiquity, continued at all times in use for monumental inscrip- tions; the hieratic was a cursive form of the hieroglyphic, and dated from the sixth dynasty ; the demotic, introduced about the period of the 26th dynasty (circa B.c. 700), was an abbreviated form of the hieratic. This last, which may be described as a kind of shorthand, is exceedingly difficult to decipher. Not only does a single sign frequently correspond to several meanings, but the characters are cramped, and the penmanship is, for the most part, careless and confused. Before the issue of Brugsch’s colossal “ Hieroglyphisch-Demo- tisches Wérterbuch ” (1867-1880) demotic literature was a blank; and only six years ago Pierret, in his “ Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Egyptienne,” lamented the little progress then made in this branch of Egyptology. Even now, although the numbers of European savants who devote their lives to the translation of hieroglyphic and hieratic literature is very considerable, the roll- call of demotie scholars contains little more than half-a-dozen names. Among these the most eminent are those of Brugsch and Revillout ; the former having in his “ Demotic Grammar and Dictionary ” opened the way to future students; the latter, in his “‘ Chrestomathie Démotique’”’ and other translations, having done as much work within the last four years as most other men of learning would accomplish in a lifetime.—Times, Dec. 24th, 1881. 31983 Butietin Archéologique de Atheneum Frangais, publie par A. de Longpérier et J. de Witte, nos. 1-10, Janvier 1855—Oct. 1856, in 1 vol. 4to. plates, hf. morocco, 18s Paris, 1855-56 Including a series of articles entitled “ Renseignements sur les 64 Apis trouvés dans les souterrains du Serapéum.”’ 31984 BURTON’S Excerpta Hieroglyphica, or exact Copies of various Hieroglyphical Inscriptions, etc. now existing in Egypt and at Mount Sinai, 4 parts in 1 vol. oblong 4to. a perfect copy, consist- iny of 61 plates, hf. calf, £2. 8s Cairo, 1825-37 31985 ————— the same, 4 parts in 1 vol. oblong 4to. if. morocco, gilt tops, uncut, £2. 16s | 1825-37 31986 ———-— Sale Catalogue of his ecllection of Egyptian Antiquities, with prices and names, interleaved, in 4to. plates, bds.-33 6d 18386 31987 CHABAS (F.) le Papyrus Magique Harris, traduction analytique et commentée, imp. 4to. 14 plates, sd. 26s Chalon-sur-Saone, 1860 31988 ————-- Mélanges Heyptologiques, the three series complete, 4 vols. large 8vo. sd. very scarce, Chalon-sur-Saone, 1862-73 31989 ———_— — the same, Series II and III, in 3 vols. one bd. and two sd. £9. 1864-73 Of the three series, the second is the scarcest. The complete book is priced by Paris booksellers 250 frs. 31990 Bos sur le Nom Egyptienne de Thébes, 8vo. sd.2s 6d 1868