Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1979. First Edition. Octavo, xi, 102 pages, plus 19 black-and-white plates. Publisher's original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Enmerkar and Ensuhkesdanna: A Sumerian Narrative Poem is a scholarly study and edition of an important work of ancient Mesopotamian literature, in which Adele Berlin examines a Sumerian narrative centered.....
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. With Ninety-Six Plates Reproduced in Fac-Simile from the Turin Papyrus and the Louvre Papyrus. First Edition. Square folio, 186 pages followed by LXXIX full page plates, some of which are fold outs. Publisher's original gilt-lettered green cloth covered boards. The Egyptian Book of.....
Milan, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci, 1984. First Edition. Limited Edition of 5,000 copies, of which this is number 2,399. Large quarto, publisher's original gilt-lettered blue cloth covered boards. Publisher's original case. In a protective clear mylar jacket. I sigilli d'oro dell'Archivio Segreto Vaticano. The Gold Seals of the Vatican Secret.....
London: J. Nichols, 1780. First Edition. Quarto, viii, 434 pages, quarter red leather over marbled boards. First published in 1780, this important antiquarian work brings together the surviving wills of English monarchs, princes, princesses, and other members of the royal family, spanning the period from William the Conqueror to the.....
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1883. First Edition. Octavo, 232, 12 pages, publisher's original gilt-lettered green cloth covered boards. Illustrated with large fold-out map in the rear. Henry S. Osborn’s Ancient Egypt in the Light of Modern Discoveries is a concise and accessible late 19th-century survey of ancient Egyptian history.....
Burlington: Isaac Neale, 1793. The Tenth Edition - First American Edition. 12mo, xx, 352 pages, period full leather with gilt-lettered spine label. Now in a protective archival box. First American edition of Andrew Michael Ramsay’s *The Travels of Cyrus*, an influential eighteenth-century philosophical romance combining history, moral instruction, political thought.....
Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1845. Two octavo volumes, 605; 668 pages, bound in matching contemporary full leather with gilt-lettered spine labels. Volume I illustrated with two double-page maps. Charles Rollin’s *Ancient History* is an influential historical work surveying the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Carthage, Assyria, Babylonia, Media, Persia, Greece, and Macedonia.....
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First Edition. 12mo, [2], viii, 382 pages, publisher's original cloth covered boards. Illustrated with frontispiece and two fold-out plates. Horatio Smith’s Festivals, Games, and Amusements, Ancient and Modern is an engaging early nineteenth-century survey of popular entertainments, public customs, sports, games, holidays, ceremonies.....
Tokyo, Japan: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (The Society for International Cultural Relations), 1935. First Edition. Octavo, 35, [4] pages, publisher's original pictorial wraps. Ancient Japan in the Light of Anthropology is a scarce English-language study by Dr. Ryuzo Torii, one of Japan’s important early anthropologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, and folklorists. Published in.....