KING, Rev. James.: Cleopatra's Needle. A History of the London Obelisk with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics. , London: The Religious Tract Society, 1886.

3rd edition. By-Paths of Bible Knowledge I. "Contains a 'verbatim' translation into English, and an exposition, of the hieroglyphic inscriptions cut by Thotmes III, on the Obelisk, and an exposition of those inscribed by Rameses II....The London Obelisk is interesting to the architect as a specimen of the masonry of a people accounted as the great builders of the Ancient World..." 119cms x 12cms. Pp.128, folding frontispiece showing the hieroglyphics on Cleopatra's Needle + 9 further illustrations, brown floral endpapers, small bookseller's label(N.Z. Bible Tract and Book Society, Dunedin and Wellington) to inside front board, darkened rectangle and faint ink initials to front free endpaper and initials again to inner endpaper, occasional pencil marginal notations, minor foxing affecting a few pages. Brown illustrated cloth with gilt title and obelisk to front, black title to spine and black Egyptian illustration to rear board. G+. (Book ref. 37754)  £30.00

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