Author:Samuel Birch

Samuel Birch
(1813–1885)

Samuel Birch

Works

• Analecta Sinensia, 1841.
• Select Papyri in the Hieratic Character, 3 pts. fol. 1841-4.
• Selections from the Gallery of Antiquities in the British Museum, with Joseph Bonomi and Francis Arundale (1842)
• Tablets from the Collection of the Earl of Belmore, 1843.
• Friends till Death (from Chinese), 1845.
• An Introduction to the Study of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 1857.
• History of Ancient Pottery, 2 vols. 1858. John Murray, London.
• Memoire sur une Patere, 1858.
• Select Papyri, pt, ii. 18 (50.
• A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum Part 11 (1861)
• ChineseWidow (from Chinese), 1862.
• Elfin Foxes (from Chinese), 1863.
• Papyrus of Nas-Khem, 1863.
• Facsimiles of Egyptian Relics, 1863.
• Facsimiles of two Papyri, 1863.
• Inscriptions in the Himyaritic Character, 1863.
• Egypt's Place in Universal History, 1867. (Vol. 5 - contributed the first extensive English translation of the Book of the Dead)
• The Casket of Gems (from Chinese), 1872.
• History of Egypt, 1875.
• Facsimile of Papyrus of Rameses III, fol. 1876.
• The Monumental History of Egypt, 1876.
• Egyptian Texts, 1877.
• Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, 1880.
• The Coffin of Amamu (unfinished).

Articles in the Archaeological Journal

• "Gold Fibula, found at Odiham, Hampshire" in Archaeological Journal, 2 (1846), pp. 46–47
• "Notice of an Anglo-Roman Sarcophagus" in Archaeological Journal, 2 (1846), pp. 251–257
• "On the Torc of the Celts" in Archaeological Journal, 2 (1846), pp. 368–380
• "On the Torc of the Celts" in Archaeological Journal, 3 (1846), pp. 27–38
• "On the Reading of the Coins of Cunobelin" in Archaeological Journal, 4 (1847), pp. 28–36
• "Observations on a Bronze Figure of a Bull found in Cornwall" in Archaeological Journal, 7 (1850), pp. 8–16

Contributions to EB9

• "Athor," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 3) (1878)

Works about Birch

• "Birch, Samuel," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
• "Birch, Samuel (3)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Birch, Samuel (1813-1885)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Birch, Samuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)