Product Description
Presentation copies from the publisher of eleven first edition volumes of Birch and Sayce's wonderful collection of translations of ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian texts.
The first edition of the first eleven volumes of this work, which eventually extended to eighteen volumes.
Handsomely bound in full morocco.
Volumes I-V, and volumes IX and X are each inscribed to a front blank 'With the publisher's compliments'.
Edited by Samuel Birch and A.
H.
Sayce, these volumes compile translations into English of hieroglyphic and cuneiform sources, including royal inscriptions, historical annals, religious texts and administrative records from Egypt and the civilisations of Western Asia.
Arranged as a reference collection, the series makes primary source material accessible to English readers.
In full morocco bindings with extensive gilt detailing.
Back strips age toned, with boards bright.
Rubbing to back strip heads and tails, joints, and raised bands.
Inscriptions from the publisher to a front blank of volumes I-V, IX-X.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages clean and bright.
Very Good
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