Rosellini, Ippolito. I monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia disegnati dalla spedizione scientifico-letteraria toscana in Egitto. 9 vols. Pisa: Presso N. Capurro e c., 1832–44.
Morris apparently owned an incomplete set.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1006 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 12s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 332 (about 16 plates mutilated or lacking).
Sotheby 1898:
December 7, 2016
Comments Off on ¶ d’Avennes — L’art arabe (1877)
d’Avennes, Prisse. L’art arabe d’après les monuments du Kaire. 4 vols. Paris: Morel, 1877.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 970 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £22). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 328.
Sotheby 1898:
May 24, 2016
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Rhoné, Arthur. Coup d’oeil sur l’état du Caire ancien et moderne. Paris: A. Quantin, 1882.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. —Richard Bennett (?). — Sotheby 1898 (?). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 211 (5s.). — Unlocated.
April 14, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ Herodotus — Aegyptian and Grecian history (1723)
Herodotus. The Aegyptian and Grecian history of Herodotus. Trans. Isaac Littlebury. 2 vols. 3rd ed. London: printed for E. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, F. Fayram, C. Rivington, J. Hooke, F. Clay, J. Batley, and E. Symon, 1723.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris (purchased for 7s. 6d.) — Unlocated.
References: ESTC (T148115). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 12. — MS catalogue (2), no. 764.
Digital version: ECCO.
March 24, 2015
Lane, Edward William. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians. Ed. Edward Stanley Poole. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1871.
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 220.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
December 5, 2014
Maqrīzī, Ahmad ibn ‘Ali. Histoire des sultans mamlouks de l’Égypt. Trans. Etienne Quatremère. 2 vols. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1845.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 699 (sold to Bain for £1). — Sandford Arthur Strong. — Arthur Strong Oriental Library, University College, London. — Bloomsbury, 1 June 2006, lot 265 (sold for £240). — Unlocated.
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 14v (£1 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 201.
Sotheby 1898:
June 2, 2014
Diodorus, Siculus. The historical library of Diodorus the Sicilian. In fifteen books. The first five, contain the antiquities of Egypt, Asia, Africa, Greece, the islands, and Europe. The last ten, an historical account of the affairs of the Persians, Grecians, Macedonians, and other parts of the world. To which are added, the fragments of Diodorus that are found in the Bibliotheca of Photius: together with those publish’d by H. Valesius, L. Rhodomannus, and F. Ursinus. Trans. G. Booth. London: printed by Edward Jones for Awnsham and John Churchil, and Edward Castle, 1700.
Provenance: Morris (purchased for 12s). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 392 (sold to Edwards for 11s.) .— Chin Pom Ye. — Harry Buxton Forman. — Forman sale, Anderson Galleries (New York), 1920. — Bonhams, 10 December 2008 (sold for $420). — Christopher Edwards (Henley-on-Thames), list 71 (2017), no. 34A (£950). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 49b (10s.). — ESTC (R15327). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 10. — MS catalogue (2), no. 439.
Digital version: EEBO.
Sotheby 1898:
May 29, 2014
Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner. The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians. Rev. ed. by Samuel Birch. 3 vols. London: John Murray, 1878.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1050 (sold to Leighton for £2 2s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 141.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 11, 2014
Gerspach, Édouard. Les tapisseries coptes. Paris: Maison Quantin, 1890.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 464 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 19s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 139.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
February 16, 2014
Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallace. Some account of the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the possession of Lady Meux, of Theobald’s Park, Waltham Cross. London: Harrison & Sons, 1893.
Inscribed “William Morris, Esq. from Lady Meux.”
Provenance: Lady Meux. — Morris (gift from Lady Meux, 1893?). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 101 (sold to Tregaskis for £1 7s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Google.
Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
February 28, 2017
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