Notes on the Great Pyramid of Egypt and the Cubits Used in its Design Green leather covered boards and spine with gilt lettering trim and insignia

People:

James McDonald (photographer)

Title:

Notes on the Great Pyramid of Egypt and the Cubits Used in its Design Green leather covered boards and spine with gilt lettering trim and insignia

Date:

published 1869

Form:
books
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 book(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

book (closed): 28,6 x 22,4 x 1 cm secondary support: 27.60 X 21.00 cm comp. (smallest): 20,5 x 16,3 cm comp. (largest): 21,4 x 15,8 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0607:001-006

Inscription:

inscribed; stamped; labelled - Presented by Mr. Gen & SirHenry James ( in black ink, in unknown hand, on printed label on end paper U);This book belongs to the / Library of the Ordnance Survey office/Southampton(in black ink,printed label, on end paper, C); see prof. Wackerbarthe's[illegible] ( in black ink, in unknown hand, on title page, L). stamped - Notes/on the/ Great Pyramid of Egypt/ and / the Cubits used in its design/ by / Col.Sir Henry James R.E.F.R.S./1869 ( stamped in gilt on cover C); Charles W.Millard III (embossed on end paper, UR)

Location:

Giza; Egypt;

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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