RARE collection of 134 folk-songs collected in the years 1900-1901 from the farmers of Upper Egypt, transliterated and translated by the eminent German Egyptologist Heinrich Schäfer (1868-1957). Includes b&w photographic plates of Egyptian villagers and their surroundings. 185x125mm. XV+149 pages. Grey cloth Hardcover with mounted photographic plate on front cover. Black lettering on front cover and spine. Cover and spine stained and yellowing. Cover bottom corners and edges bumped. Bookseller`s sticker on front endpaper. Binding visible between endpaper and pre-title page. Pre-title page upper corner wrinkled. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This rare book of early 20th-century Egyptian poetic folklore is otherwise in very good condition.