Occult & Esoterica
[PIANKOFF, Alexandre] Mythological Papyri (2 Volumes)
[PIANKOFF, Alexandre] Mythological Papyri (2 Volumes)
Translation & Introduction by Piankoff; Edited by N. Rambova
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. Volume one is the text volume and has a color frontis, 222 pages, and a few black and white line drawings. Volume two is a separate portfolio box complete with string ties and it houses a collection of 30 large folding plates, along with a list of the plates and their sources. All plates are present. Slight lean to volume one (common, due to a wooden slat inside slipcase, as issued). Both volumes in near fine condition. Slipcase has some edge wear and a bit of soiling, and some fading.
This set is volume three of the Egyptian Religious Texts and Representations series and is complete in itself. This work is devoted to a selection of important mythological papyri from the Cairo Museum; The Louvre and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; the Archaeological Museum, Florence; the Turin Museum; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is in two parts: a volume containing a historical introduction, descriptions of the papyri, translations of the texts, and a chapter on the religious symbolism of the papyri, illustrated by representative diagrams; and a portfolio of collotype reproductions of thirty papyri, which unfold in order to facilitate their study in sequence. The size of the plates range from 2 feet to eleven feet in length!