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[2], xviii, 427, [3], 138 pp. With hand-colored engraved frontispiece & 5 engraved plates. 23.4x14.6 cm (9¼x5¾"), modern half cloth & marbled boards, paper spine label. Probable first edition.

Significant early study of Egyptian myths and chronology, with comparisons to Greek and Indian and Greek myths, together with Pritchard's interpretation of the hieroglyphic alphabet. A major figure in the history of anthropology, Pritchard held that all of mankind had the same primeval history. There was also another 1819 edition, published by J. & A. Arch; no priority has been determined, but the present edition is much scarcer. Formerly in the Mercantile Library of New York, with old rubberstamps to frontispiece, title page and a few other places.