The Egyptian Obelisks - Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Egyptian Obelisks
A Bibliography of Works
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Books
Champollion-Figeac, Jacques-Joseph, Jean-François Champollion. L'Obélisque
de Louqsor transporté à Paris les dessins et les notes Manuscrites de
Champollion le Jeune. Rediviva. Nimes: Lacour, 2004.
BA Call Number: 722.2 C453 (B3 – Arts & Multimedia Library)
Champollion, Jean François. Observations sur l'Obélisque Egyptien de l'Ile de
Philae. Paris: 1822.
BA Call Number: 726.80932 C453 (B2 – Rare Books)
D'Alton, Martina. The New York Obelisk, or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to
New York and What Happened When it Got Here. New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1993.
BA Call Number: 974.71 (F1)
Dibner, Bern. Moving the Obelisks: a Chapter in Engineering History in which
the Vatican Obelisk in Rome in 1586 was Moved by Muscle Power, and a
Study of More Recent Similar Moves. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1970,
1950.
BA Call Number: 624.10945632 (B1 – Shady Abdelsalam Collection)
Engelbach, Reginald. The Problem of the Obelisks: From a Study of the
Unfinished Obelisk at Aswan. London: T. Fisher Unwin, ltd., 1923.
BA Call Number: 932 E573 (B2 – Special Collection – Ein Shams University)
Gorringe, Henry Honeychurch. Egyptian Obelisks. London: John C. Nimmo,
1885.
BA Call Number: 932.02 G673 (B2 – Rare Books)
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Habachi, Labib. The Obelisks of Egypt: Skyscrapers of the Past. Cairo, Egypt:
American University in Cairo Press, 1984, 1988.
BA Call Number: 932.02 H113 (F1)
Iversen, Erik. Obelisks in Exile. Copenhagen: Gad, 1972.
BA Call Number: 909 (F1)
Kuentz, Charles. Obélisques. Catalogue Général des Antiquités Egyptiennes du
Musée du Caire 1308-1315 and 17001-17036. Le Caire: Institut Français
d'Archéologie Orientale, 1932.
BA Call Number: 732.8 (B4 – Rare Books -- Closed Stacks)
Menu, Bernadette. L'Obélisque de la Concorde. Preface of Christiane DesrochesNoblecourt. Versailles: Editions du Lunx, 1987.
BA Call Number: 725.9 M5498 (B3 – Arts & Multimedia Library)
Minguez, Manuel. Des Pyramides aux Obélisques: le Secret des Bâtisseurs
Egyptiens. Paris: Tallandier, 1987.
BA Call Number: 726.80932 M6649 (B3 – Arts & Multimedia Library)
Solé, Robert. Le Grand Voyage de l'Obélisque. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2004.
BA Call Number: 944.361 S685 (F1)
Verninac de Saint-Maur, Raimond-Jean-Baptiste de. Voyage du Luxor en Egypte:
Entrepris par ordre du Roi pour transporter, de Thèbes à Paris, l'un des
Obélisques de Sésostris. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1835.
BA Call Number: 913.2 V537 (B2 – Special Collection – Ein Shams University)
Wilson, Erasmus. Cleopatra's Needle: with Brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian
Obelisks. London: Brain & co., 1877.
BA Call Number: 913.2 (B1 – Shady Abdelsalam Collection)
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BA Call Number: 932.01 H113 (F1)
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