4. Clarke (Edward Daniel) The Tomb of Alexander: A Dissertation on the Sarcophagus brought from Alexandria and now in the British Museum, first edition , engraved frontispiece, head-piece and 4 plates, 1 printed in green, errata leaf at end, with 8pp. pamphlet ‘A Letter addressed to the Gentlemen of the British Museum...’ of 1807 bound in at beginning, some browning and offsetting, light water-staining to lower margin, engraved bookplates, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked and recornered, [Blackmer 363], 4to, Cambridge, 1805.
est. £250 – £350
The author was responsible for securing many Egyptian antiquities for the British, including the Rosetta stone.