Gustave JEQUIER. - Lot 332

Gustave JEQUIER. Architecture and Decoration in Ancient Egypt. Complete set of its three volumes. Volume I: Les Temples Memphites et Thébains; des origines à la XVIIIe Dynastie; Volume II: Les Temples Ramessides et Saïtes; de La XIXe à la XXXe Dynastie; Volume III:Les Temples Ptolémaïques et Romains. Set of three folio-sized volumes (52cm x 37cm). Vol. I: 16 pp. (text); 80 photographic plates in sheets. Vol. II: 3ff. (cover, false title, title), 12 pp. (text), 1 blank f., 80 photographic plates in sheets. Vol III: 2 ff. (false title and title), 10 pp. (text), 1 f. blank, 80 photographic plates in sheets. Each volume in hardback portfolio; red cloth spines, titled in gilt; decorated front boards; matching laces to spine. Some foxing, otherwise good condition. Gustave Jéquier, a Swiss Egyptologist and Maspéro collaborator, was renowned for his knowledge of ancient Egyptian religious texts. He carried out excavation campaigns in Iran and was responsible for the discovery of the famous Code of Hammurabi in Susa. Striking shots of Egyptian monuments as they were discovered before they were excavated.