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  • Magi, Filippo. Il circo Vaticana in base alle più recenti scorperte; il suo obelisco e i suoi "carceres."

    • Text
    • 1972
  • Cleopatra's needles and other Egyptian obelisks : a series of descriptions of all the important inscribed obelisks, with hierogylphic texts, translations, etc. / by E. A. Wallis Budge.

    • Text
    • New York : AMS Press, [1975]
    • 1975-1926
    • 2 Items
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    Text *OBLG 76-108Offsite
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    Text Sc 932-B (Budge, E. Cleopatra's needles)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The obelisks of Egypt / by Labib Habachi ; edited by Charles C. Van Siclen III.

    • Text
    • New York : Scribner, [1977]
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG 77-5354Offsite
  • Ein Garantsymbol des Lebens : Unters. zu Ursprung u. Geschichte d. altägypt. Obelisken bis zum Ende d. neuen Reiches / Karl Martin.

    • Text
    • Hildesheim : Gerstenberg, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG 79-693Offsite
  • Der Obelisk : ein Steinmal ägyptischer Weltanschauung / Edmund Dondelinger.

    • Text
    • Graz : Akadem. Druck- u. Verlagsanst., 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OBLG 79-1043Offsite
  • Der Obelisk : ein Steinmal ägyptischer Weltanschauung / Edmund Dondelinger.

    • Text
    • Graz : Akadem. Druck- u. Verlagsanst., 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG 80-398Offsite
  • Cleopatra's Needles / [by] R. A. Hayward.

    • Text
    • Buxton : Moorland Publishing Company, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 80-1512Offsite
  • The magic of obelisks / Peter Tompkins.

    • Text
    • New York : Harper & Row, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLF 82-3909Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • H.H. Gorringe, prince of engineers (1841-1885) / Fred Brauen.

    • Text
    • New York, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text IRH 86-3333Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Egyptian obelisks, by Henry H. Gorringe.

    • Text
    • New York, Published by the author [1882]
    • 1882
    • 2 Items
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    Text *OBLG+ 84-1393Offsite
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    Text *OBLG+ 84-1393 (Locked cage)Offsite
  • The first architectural obelisks in New York / Fred Brauen.

    • Text
    • [S.l. : s.n.], 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MRI 84-505Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Le guglie di Napoli : storia e restauro / Gaia Salvatori, Corrado Menzione ; introduzione di Ferdinando Bologna.

    • Text
    • Napoli : Electa, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MRI 88-242Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • The obelisks of Egypt : skyscrapers of the past / Labib Habachi.

    • Text
    • Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG 87-772Offsite
  • Le dernier obélisque / Philippe Derchain.

    • Text
    • Brussels : Fondation egyptologique Reine Elisabeth, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 90-4455Offsite
  • Ramesses II obelisk, Cairo International Airport / [designed and executed by Amal M. Safwat El-Alfy].

    • Text
    • [Cairo] : Egyptian Antiquities Organization Press, [1986?]
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG 89-4515Offsite
  • Cleopatra's needles and other Egyptian obelisks : a series of descriptions of all the important inscribed obelisks, with hieroglyphic texts, translations, etc. / by E.A. Wallis Budge.

    • Text
    • New York : Dover Publications, 1990.
    • 1990-1926
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG 91-2787Offsite
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  • Obelisken : ägyptische Obelisken und ihre Geschichte in Rom / Ernst Batta.

    • Text
    • Frankfurt am Main : Insel, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFG 00-1561Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine

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  • The problem of the obelisks, from a study of the unfinished obelisk at Aswan, by R. Engelbach.

    • Text
    • New York, George H. Doran Company, 1923.
    • 1923
    • 2 Items
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    Text *OBLG (Engelbach, R. Problem of the obelisks)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text Sc 913.32-E (Engelbach, R. Problem of the obelisks)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Views of Egypt, Palestine and Syria [graphic] / Bonfils.

    • Still image
    • 1867?-1871?
    • 1867-1871
    • 1 Item

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    Still image MFZ+ (Bonfils) 93-6261Schwarzman Building - Photography Collection Room 308

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  • Gli obelischi egizi : politica e cultura nella Roma barocca / Giovanni Gipriani.

    • Text
    • Firenze : Olschki, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 93-13178Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Obelisken : Heliopolis, Luxor, Kairo, Byblos, Rom, Benevento, Istanbul, Urbino, Florenz, Kingston Lacy, München, Paris, Durham, London, New York, Berlin : Ausstellung im Italienischen Saal der Landshuter Stadtresidenz vom 23.5. bis 2.6. 1992 / Richard Hillinger ; wissenschaftliche Leitung, Christian E. Loeben ; mit Beiträgen von Ernst Czerny ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • [Landshut] : Stadt Landshut, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MGI 94-8976Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Der Obelisk des Antinoos : eine kommentierte Edition / mit Beiträgen von Alfred Grimm, Dieter Kessler, Hugo Meyer und einer Einführung, Antinous and the Greek Renascence ; herausgegeben von Hugo Meyer.

    • Text
    • München : W. Fink Verlag, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG+ 96-3335Offsite
  • Les obélisques égyptiens : histoire et archéologie / par Abdel-Kader Selim.

    • Text
    • Le Caire : Organisme Général des Imprimeries Gouvernementales, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG+ 95-5506Offsite
  • Gli obelischi di Roma e le loro epigrafi ... Presentazione del cardinale Eugenio Tisserant.

    • Text
    • Roma, Editalia, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text G-10 2931Offsite
  • The origin of the building of Solomon's temple : An oriental tradition. / By John Banvard.

    • Text
    • Boston : Published by Howard Gannett ..., 1880.
    • 1880
    • 1 Item
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    Text NBI (Banvard, J. Origin of the building of Solomon's temple)Offsite
  • Miscellaneous views of Paris [graphic] / C. Meryon.

    • Still image
    • 1855-1864.
    • 1855-1864
    • 1 Resource

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  • Copy of report on the condition of the Obelisk in Central Park, New York, by committee of experts appointed by the Department of Public Parks. Extracted from official documents of the board.

    • Text
    • New York, 1890.
    • 1890
    • 1 Item
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    Text IRGC p.v. 11 no. 1-10Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • 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.

    • Text
    • New York, Burndy Library, 1950.
    • 1950
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDC (Dibner, B. Moving the obelisks)Offsite
  • Obelisks in exile.

    • Text
    • Copenhagen, Gad, 1968-
    • 1968-present
    • 2 Items
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    Text MRI+ (Iversen, E. Obelisks in exile) v. 1Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300
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    Text MRI+ (Iversen, E. Obelisks in exile) v. 2Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300
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  • Gli obelischi di Roma

    • Text
    • Roma : Bulzoni, 1967.
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text MRI+ (Onofrio, C. d'. Obelischi di Roma)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Plans and sections of the obelisk on Bunker's Hill, with the details of experiments made in quarrying the granite.

    • Text
    • Boston, C. Cook, 1843.
    • 1843
    • 1 Item
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    Text MRI+ (Willard, S. Plans and sections of the obelisk on Bunker's Hill)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Nova racolta degl'obelischi et colonne antiche, dell'alma citta di Roma con le sve dichiaratione.

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    • Roma [n.p.] [16--]
    • 16
    • 1 Item
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    Text MEM M193mn (Maggi, G. Nova racolta degl'obelischi et colonne antiche)Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • The Greek and Latin inscriptions on the obelisk-crab in the Metropolitan Museum, New York : A monograph / by Augustus C. Merriam. --

    • Text
    • New York : Harper, 1884.
    • 1884
    • 1 Item

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    Text *OBL (Merriam. Greek and Latin inscriptions on the obelisk-crab. 1884)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Obelisk-Skibe / Carl V. Sølver.

    • Text
    • København : Søfartens Bibliotek, 1943.
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBL (Slver, C. V. Obelisk-skibe)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Aswân obelisk, with some remarks on the ancient engineering, by R. Engelbach, chief inspector, Antiguities department.

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    • Le Caire, Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1922.
    • 1922
  • L'obélisque de Louqsor transporté a Paris : notice historique, descriptive, et archælogique sur ce monument / par M. Champollion-Figeac ; avec la figure de l'obélisque et l'interprétation de ses inscriptions hiéroglyphiques d'après les dessins et les notes manuscrites de Champollion le jeune.

    • Text
    • Paris : Chez Firmin Didot frères, libraires ..., Décembre 1833.
    • 1833
  • A short history of the Egyptian obelisks. By W. R. Cooper. With translations of many of the hieroglyphic inscriptions; chiefly by M. François Chabas.

    • Text
    • London, S. Bagster and Sons [1877]
    • 1877-
    • 2 Items
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    Text *OBLG (Cooper, W.R. A short history of the Egyptian obelisks)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text *OBLG (Cooper, W.R. Short history of the Egyptian obelisks)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Notes of research on the New York obelisk / by Alexis A. Julien.

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    • [New York? : s.n., 1883?]
    • 1883
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG (Julien, A. A. Notes of research on the New York obelisk)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The New York obelisk, Cleopatra's needle. With a preliminary sketch of the history, erection, uses, and signification of obelisks. By Charles E. Moldenke.

    • Text
    • New York, 1891.
    • 1891
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG (Moldenke, C. E. New York obelisk. 1891)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The New York obelisk, Cleopatra's needle, with a preliminary sketch of the history, erection, uses, and signification of obelisks, by Charles E. Moldenke.

    • Text
    • Lancaster, Pa., Lancaster Press, inc. 1935
    • 1935
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG (Moldenke, C. E. New York obelisk. 1935)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Cleopatra's needles.

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    • [London] H.F. & G. Witherby [c1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG (Noakes, A. Cleopatra's needles)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Die Nadeln des Pharao. Ägyptische Obelisken und ihre Schicksale.

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    • Dresden, Verlag der Kunst [1968]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG (Ruhlmann, G. Nadeln des Pharao)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • L'Obélisque de Luxor : histoire de sa translation a Paris.../ par M. A. Lebas. Suivi d'un extrait de l'oubrage de Fontana, sur la translation de l'Obélisque du Vatican.

    • Text
    • Paris : Carilian-Goeury et Dalmont, 1839.
    • 1839
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG+ (Lebas, J. B. A. Obélisque de Luxor)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • De origine et vsv obeliscorvm, ad Pivm sextvm pontificem maximvm avctore Georgio Zoega Dano.

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    • Romae, typis Lazzarinii typographi cameralis, 1797.
    • 1797
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBLG+++ (Zoega, G. Origine et usu obeliscorum)Offsite
  • Athanasii Kircher ... Obeliscvs Pamphilivs, hoc est, interpretatio noua & hucusque intentata obelisci hieroglyphici quem non ita pridem ex veteri hippodromo Antonini Caracellæ ... in agonale forum transtulit, integritati restituit, & in vrbis æternæ ornamentum erexit Innocentivs X ... In quo post varia ægyptiacæ, chaldaicæ, hebraicæ, græcanicæ antiquitatis, doctrinæque quà sacræ, quà profanæ monumenta, veterum tandem theologia, hieroglyphicis inuoluta symbolis, detecta é tenebris in lucem asseritur.

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    • Romæ, L. Grignani, 1650.
    • 1650
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBN+ (Kircher, A. A. Kircher...Obeliscvs Pamphilivs)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Ad Alexandrvm VII ... Obelisci aegyptiaci : nuper inter Isaei romani rudera effossi interpretatio hieroglyphica / Athanasii Kircheri.

    • Text
    • Romæ : Ex typographia Varesij, 1666.
    • 1666
    • 1 Item

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    Text *OBN+ (Kircher, A. Ad Alexandrum VII. Pont. Max. Obelisci aegyptiaci) (LockedSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Obélisques / par Charles Kuentz.

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    • Le Caire : Imprimerie de l'institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1932.
    • 1932
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OBKM+ (Cairo. Musee des antiquites egyptiennes. Catalogue general. Obelisques)Offsite
  • Der Obelisk und seine Basis auf dem Hippodrom zu Konstantinopel, von Gerda Bruns; mit einem Beitrag von Friedrich Krauss.

    • Text
    • Istanbul [Universum-Druckerei] 1935.
    • 1935
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OPR (Istanbuler Forschungen.) Bd. 7-8 (1935-36)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Dellʹobelisco di Cesare Augusto : scavato dalle rovine del Campo Marzo / commentario di Angelo Maria Bandini ; con alcune lettere, e dissertazioni di uomini illustri.

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    • In Roma : Nella stamperia di Pallade, appresso Niccolò e Marco Pagliarini, mercanti di libri e stampatori a Pasquino, 1750.
    • 1750
    • 1 Item
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    Text H-10 2Offsite
  • Der Braunschweiger Löwenwall / Herausgegeben von Gerd Spies.

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    • Braunschweig : Städtisches Museum, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433049977410
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    Text JFE 00-8652Offsite

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