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The English Library, no. 134, Full title reads as follows: "Notes From the Nile, Together With a Metrical Rendering of the Hymns of Ancient Egypt and of the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep (The Oldest Book in the World)" .
Among 7 chapters are: With Flinders Petrie at the Medum Pyramid; How I Saw the Great Pharaoh in the Flesh: A Reminiscence of the Bulak Museum; Seti I, The Father of Pharaoh the Great: An Historical Sketch; First Impressions of Thebes; Hymns of Ancient Egypt (with words to 9 hymns); etc. Eight page publisher's catalogue at the end.
Other listing are of hardbacks, this is a paperback copyright edition as shown in pictures.
Spine creased previous owners signature on cover (see picture) overall yellowing. rough edges.

minor shelf rubbing on book and jacket. Pages inside appears clean and clear throughout. 'The Aztec painted manuscripts known as 'the Codex Mendoza' was prepared on the authority of Don Antonio de Mendoza, first Viceroy of New Spain, shortly after the Spanish conquest, for dispatch to the emperor, Charles V. The Codex was specially written by an Aztec painted book artist using the native pictographic system of writing. So that the Spanish monarch should be able to read it and form an idea of his strange dominions in the New World, a Spanish priest familiar with the language of the Aztecs, 'Nauatil', was asked to write a detailed explanation of the contents.