M.W.H. Lombe Brooke (and W. M. Flinders Petrie)

The Great Pyramid of Gizeh: its riddle read, its secret metrology fully revealed as the origin of British Measures. Interpreted from the Measures by Professor C. Piazzi Smyth and Professor W.M. Flinders Petrie.[First Edition]

London: Robert Banks & Son, 1908. 1st ed., 8vo, (i, errata), original brown cloth boards with gilt title to front board and spine, b&w frontis, b&w plates, pp (vii) 217. Some rubbing to edges, fraying to foot of spine, corners bumped, minor scuff marks boards, very small hole in cloth to fore edge of spine, light foxing to endpapers and edges of frontis, o/w very good condn.

Argues in great detail from measurements of the Pyramid that "the measures of the old Saxons and also those of the Greeks and Romans may be derived from the standards of measure preserved in the Great Pyramid". Rare. Item #88647

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