Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke
The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia
£278
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
[Volume 1:] A Selection from the Historical Inscriptions of Chaldaea, Assyria, and Babylonia; [Volume 2:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria; [Volume 3:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria; [Volume 5:] A Selection from the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia. London: lithographed by R. E. Bowler [volume 5: J. Jankowsky], 1861-66-70-84. Volumes 1-3 and 5 (of 5), large folio (53 x 53cm), non-uniform library bindings (half leather and cloth, each volume with preliminary text and 70 lithographic plates, ex Leeds Public Libraries with plates to front pastedowns (ink-stamped 'duplicate -sold') and blind stamps, toning, a few marks and short tears, volume 3 bound without series-title, volume 5 with repair to pp. 3/4, plates 36-8 misbound, closed tear in plate 57.
Together with 3 other works: Austen Henry Layard, Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character, from Assyrian Monuments. London: printed by Harrison and Son, sold at the British Museum, 1851 (large folio, 53 x 33cm, later quarter morocco, 6 pp., 98 lithographic plates, blind stamps of Leeds Public Libraries); A. H. Sayce, Aramaic Papyri Discovered at Assuan, London: Alexander Moring, 1906, folio, 27 photographic plates, text and plates loose as issued in original portfolio (front board near detached); and a 1909 edition of volume 5 of Rawlinson's work)