Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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RIKART, Carl von. Menes and Cheops Identified in History Under Different Names: With Other Cosas. London: [Spottiswoode and Co. for] Longmans, Green and Co., 1869. 8vo. Half?title, wood?engraving frontispiece, 4 wood?engraved plates, publisher?s ads at rear. Original publisher?s pictorial brown cloth stamped in black, gilt?lettered spine, bound by Westleys & Co. (binder?s ticket). (Recased preserving original spine and endpapers). FIRST EDITION. Includes Rikart?s rationale for aligning the chronology of Egyptian dynasties with the history of the bible. Rikart argues that Egyptologists? small?minded anti?Bible stance failed to recognize that the Pharaohs of Egypt were characters from the bible and uses pseudohistory as a basis for these claims. VERY SCARCE.