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The Monuments of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia: With A New Key for the Recovery of the Lost Ten Tribes
by Forster, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Richard Bently, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 354pp. Brick-colored cloth, gold lettering on spine. Sparsely illustrated with b/w reproductions of ancient hyroglyphics and reliefs. Chapters include the 104 page text The Monuments of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, the next entitled Illustrations from the Obelisk of Nimroud, Medallions, ect. that extends to page 178, The Great Arrow-Headed Inscriptions of Behistun or Bisitun to page 210, and finally Ruins of Mourg-Aub, or Pasargadae in the Vicinity of the Kur-Aub, followed by A New Key for the Recovery of the Lost Ten Tribes. Head of spine pulled, shelfwear, slight bumping to edges. Well presesrved for its age. Very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22169
- Title
- The Monuments of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia: With A New Key for the Recovery of the Lost Ten Tribes
- Author
- Forster, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Richard Bently
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- mesopotamia, iraq, darius the great,, seals, cylinders, assyrian, bas-relief, ancient civilizations, ancient near-east
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- VG
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
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- Spine
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- New
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