Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Photo is the book you will receive. In good used condition with nominal wear, a solid binding and nice clean text with no markings, notes or highlighting. Hinge is cracked. DJ missing. Note discoloration at bottom of cover, back is similar. Table of contents is present but loose and tattered along page edge.
Seller: Elam's Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Description: New edition, with illustrations, 1886. Owner's name on half-title page. A few spots of foxing on first few pages; otherwise largely clean internally. Brown cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration on front board and spine; a little wear to cloth.
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A Fair 8vo hardcover (Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly 1883) in NO dust jacket (if issued). Although the title page has the same publisher and date as the First Edition and no additional printings are referenced, this copy has red--not brown--cloth with a paper spine label and does not include any rear publisher ads. No half-title page (if originally present), the Contents/Chief Illustrations leaf is loose (and has a bit of fore edge chipping), and a few other leaves appear slightly shaken. Decorated end papers with a bit of residue on both paste-downs and penned initials in the upper corner of the front paste-down. Still the contents (vi + 323 pp. (including four woodcuts in text) + a frontispiece and three additional plates (including a fold-out) otherwise appear clean, complete, and attached, albeit with a bit of age tanning. Soiled and stained red cloth with a sunned spine and a browned and rubbed upper spine label.
Seller: Black and Read Books, Music & Games, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Richard A Proctor. The Great pyramid : observatory, tomb, and temple. Chatto and Windus, 1883.
Price: US$100.08 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The front and back covers are gauffered, with the front cover indents being coloured in black. The title is also indented in black on the front cover, written as a half title. The front cover also displays an indented picture of a pyramid which is illuminated in gold. There is also a title written on the spine of the book which is written as a half title. This has been illuminated in gold. Opposite the title page, there is a pictorial drawing of the great pyramid observatory which has been protected by a sheet of vellum. This book has soft covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown boards with gold titling on spine and gold leaf pyramid on front cover. Cover has light chipping at edges. Title page and preface page loose but inserted in book. Contents include: History of the Pyramids; The Religion of the Great Pyramid; The Problem of the Pyramids; Appendix A: Great Pyramid Measures and Distances etc of Sun Earth and Moon; Appendix B: Excavations at the Pyramids; Appendix C: Note on the Above (i. E. App. B) ; The Origin of the Week; Saturn and the Sabbath of the Jews; Astronomy and the Jewish Festivals; The History of Sunday; Astrology. Inserted in book is letter from previous owner dating to 1800's providing notes on the text. Professional book dealer with storefront since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged. ; 355 pages
Seller: Peace of Mind Bookstore, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Price: US$133.84 + shipping
Description: 323 pp followed by publisher's catalogue, black end-paper, b&w plates, prize label on front paste-down, title page foxed, else bright copy in gold-blocked, brown, cloth boards.
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
Proctor, Richard. THE GREAT PYRAMID - OBSERVATORY TOMB AND TEMPLE. Chatto & Windus, 1883.
Price: US$166.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . 1883, illus, brown embossed boards gilt illus clean & bright, bookplate, odd foxing to end paper, hinge tender, clean bright copy, Professional bookseller since 1981
Seller: GREENSLEEVES BOOKS, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp vi, [2], 323, [1], 32 (Publishers' catalogue). 4 plates of which one double page, including frontispiece with tissue guard; woodcuts in text. Tan cloth with titles and pyramid motif in gilt and black to spine and upper board; black endpapers. Cloth split at upper rear joint nd corresponding inner hinge cracked; a couple of small nicks at head of spine and corners bruised. Final leaf of ads torn with loss to corner and small associated nick to rfep. A Good copy. The Author claims that this work shows how the conflict between the use of the pyramid and a tomb may be resolved, and the reasons why it was built. Scarce.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: A beautiful copy bound in full brown buckram with gilt illustration to front cover and gilt lettering to spine. With illustrations. Protective tissue to frontispiece. Light edgewear. Extremities of spine softening. One light scratch to back cover. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: A beautiful copy bound in full brown buckram with gilt illustration to front cover and gilt lettering to spine. With illustrations. Protective tissue to frontispiece. Light edgewear. Extremities of spine softening. One light scratch to back cover. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Proctor, Richard A. The Great Pyramid Observatory, Tomb And temple. Chatto & Windus London, 1883.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. 8vo. 323 + (1) + 32pp. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth covers, gilt lettering + Publisher's device + gilt & black lines on spine, black lettering within black quadrilateral + numerous black lines + gilt pyramid on front. Black eps. Covers : slight shelf knock bottom of spine. Contents : 2cm fox stain on title else clean, tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. F-.
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Proctor was inspired by a passage in the neo-Platonic philosopher Proculus's commentary on Plato's Timaes, which mentioned that before the Great Pyramid was completed it was used as an observatory. Based on his reading of the account he surmised that when the Pyramid was completed to its fiftieth course, i.e. to the level of the top of the Grand Gallery, which was also the floor of the Kings Chamber, it would have made an excellent observatory." CONDITION Brown bds with Black ruled design and bright Gilt tooled detailing (light rubbed cloth which is just starting at spine ends, white mark to rear and smudge to front) pp 323 with with 8 illus and publishers list to rear. Mostly very bright but tissue guard to frontis is discoloured and half title sl foxed, title page has name in pencil. Copy is sl shaken. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand