Author: MASPERO, GASTON [ET AL.]
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria [Maspero, Rappoport, King & Hall. Complete in 13 volumes]
Description: London : Grolier Society. [1903-1906?] 1903. 1st Edition in this form. Good copies only bound in the original leather-backed. marbled boards. Gilt-blocked titles to spines. with decorative gilt tooling and raised bands. Spine bands worn. with some loss to spine covers. Panel edges worn and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Marbled endpapers. Title pages are lightly tanned due to offsetting from the frontis. Tissue guards. Otherwise. pages are bright and clean. with just some scattered instances of marginal foxing around some of the tissue-guarded plates. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight and strong. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 0 pages; Description: 13 v.: illus. (some color). plates. fronts. ; 24 cm. Translation of Maspero's 'Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique.' which was divided into 3 volumes. Volumes 1-3 of this edition correspond to vol. 1 of the French original (Les origines. E´gypte et Chaldee) and are based on the text of the 4th revised French edition of 1901. but with many notes omitted or abridged. Volumes 4-6 of this edition correspond to vol. 2 of the French original (Les premieres melees des peuples); volumes 7-9 of this edition correspond to vol. 3 of the French original (Les empires). In continuation and uniform with the above-mentioned 9 volumes. the Grolier society issued 'History of Egypt from 330 B.C. to the present time. by S. Rappoport' (1904). in 3 volumes. with spine title 'History of Egypt. volume X[-XII]'. and also 'History of Egypt in the light of recent discovery. by L.W. King. and H.R. Hall' (1906). designated on spine as 'vol. XIII.' This set contains all 13 volumes. Subjects: Egypt -- Chaldea -- Syria -- Babylonia -- Assyria -- History. Ancient. Middle East -- History -- Civilization. Ancient.Weight in Kg appr.:

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