CHABAS, François - Lot 21

CHABAS, François Études sur l'Antiquité historique d'après les sources égyptiennes et les monuments réputés préhistoriques (Studies on historical antiquity based on Egyptian sources and reputed prehistoric monuments) Paris, Maisonneuve, 1873, large in-8, late unbleached half cloth, front cover preserved (reinforced), VIII, 606 pp. 6 plates and 260 figures in text Interesting pencil notes in margins. Second revised and enlarged edition with 6 plates and 260 figures in the text. The author, primarily an Egyptologist, draws on his knowledge of ancient Egyptian monuments and texts to attempt to reconstruct a chronology of mankind. Biblical chronology is his second source. The author attached such importance to his work that the second part, which deals with prehistory, has been completely recast in this edition.