The New York Obelisk, Cleopatra’s Needle: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks

Description

27×19 cm. Original orange cloth with paper label, lightly worn and bumped at extremities. Very good to near fine conditoin. Large paper copy of an edition limited to 150 copies, this copied unnumbered. viii, 208 pp. The obelisk which stands today in Central Park and its twin in London were originally erected by Thothmes (Tutmosis) III roughly 3500 years ago.