[Rarebooks] Offering: (mostly) Archeology .

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Offering:  Archeology
Always a good subject.

BUCKLER, W.H., SARDIS, VOL. VI: LYDIAN 
INSCRIPTIONS. PART 2. A COLLECTION OF THE TEXTS 
IN LYDIAN SCRIPT FOUND AT SARDIS AND ELSEWHERE. 
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY A.E. COWLEY, B. 
HAUSSOULLIER, A.H. SAYCE, A.H. SMITH., Leyden: 
Late E. J. Brill Ltd. 1924. First edition. Folio, 
13 by 11 inches, original marbled paper covered 
boards with white cloth spine. 100 pp., plus 18 
plates in pocket at rear (one plate in 
facsimile). Issued as a volume in the 
Publications of the American Society for the 
Excavation of Sardis series. Light wear to 
corners, spine titled by hand one plate in 
facsimile (photocopy); generally a very good copy. $150.00

Bernhardt, Inez. Kramer, Samuel N., SUMERISCHE 
LITERARISCHE TEXTE AUS NIPPUR. BAND 1, MYTHEN, 
EPEN, WEISHEITSLITERATUR UND ANDERE 
LITERATURGATTUNGEN. MIT VORWORT UND EINTEITUNG 
HERAUSGEGEBEN VON SAMUEL N. KRAMER. AUTOGRAPHIERT 
UND MIT INVENTARVERZEICHNIS VERSEHEN VON INEZ 
BERNHARDT., Berlin, Akademie-Verlag. 1961. 1st 
edition. Folio, original printed wrappers. 22 pp 
+ 116 plates. Slight wear at edges, a very good copy. Scarce. $75.00

Calder, William Moir., MONUMENTA ASIAE MINORIS 
ANTIQUA. VOL. 1., London: Published for the 
Society by The Manchester University Press / 
Longman's Green & Co. Ltd. 1928. First edition. 
Large quarto, original blue cloth, gilt titles to 
spine. 239 pp, Index, illustrated throughout with 
plates. Publications of the American Society for 
Archaeological Research in Asia Minor. This first 
volume has no special title, but it is an 
illustrated catalogue of monuments in Phyrgia. 
Some browning to the endpapers and pencil marks, 
front endpaper creased, light wear to extremities 
of the binding; a very good copy, complete. $250.00

Grohmann, Adolf., GÖTTERSYMBOLE UND SYMBOLTIERE 
AUF SÜDARABISCHEN DENKMÄLERN. MIT 197 ABBILDUNGEN 
IM TEXTE., Wien, In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder. 
1914. 1st edition. Folio, original printed 
wrappers. 103 pp., 197 figures in the text. 
Issued as Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie 
der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische 
Classe 58. Band 1. Abhandlung. Light creases and 
some wear, spine ends cipped; very good. Quite rare. $125.00

Hammer-Purgstall, Freiherrn von Joeseph., 
ABHANDLUNG ÜBER DIE SIEGEL DER ARABER, PERSER UND 
TÜRKEN., [Wien, C. Gerold & Sohn. 1849]. First 
edition. Quarto, bound in decorated paper-covered 
boards, leather spine panel with gilt titles. 
Original front wrapper bound in. 58 pp. One 
folding plate. "Vorgetragen in der 
historisch-philologischen Clase am 9. März 1848." 
Includes bibliographical references. Some 
browning, light binding wear; a very good copy. A 
rare work on Arabic, Persian and Turkish Sigils and Seals. $275.00

Jeremias, Alfred., DAS ALTER DER BABYLONISCHEN 
ASTRONOMIE., Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs. 1909. Zweite 
erweiterte auflage, the second edition, enlarged. 
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. 92 pp. 
Disbound, and one section of pages loose, but 
totally complete. Very good. $55.00

LANGDON, Stephen, M.A., BABYLONIAN PENITENTIAL 
PSALMS TO WHICH ARE ADDED FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC 
OF CREATION FROM KISH IN THE WELD COLLECTION OF 
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM. EXCAVATED BY THE 
OXFORD-FIELD MUSEUM EXPEDITION., Paris, P. 
Geuthner. 1927. First edition. Quarto, original 
printed wrappers. 106 pp + 37 plates. Issued as 
Oxford editions of cuneiform texts, volume 6. 
Small dampstain; hand lettered on spine, a very good copy. $75.00

LANGDON, Stephen., TABLETS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF 
DREHEM WITH A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF 
THE SUMMERIAN CALENDAR, TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY 
AND 23 PLATES., Paris: Librairie Paul Geunthner. 
1911. First edition. Quarto, original blue 
printed wrappers. 25 pp. + 23 Plates. The author 
was Shillito Reader of Assyriology and 
Comparative Semitic Philology, Oxford. Lightly 
tanned at edges, small tear at base of spine; a 
very good, clean copy. Very, very uncommon. $200.00

Merlin, A. & L. Poinssot [& L. Drapper], LES 
INSCRIPTIONS D'UCHI MAJUS D'APRÈS LES RECHEREHES 
DU CAPITAINE GONDOUIN [BOUND WITH] LA NÉCROPOLE 
PUNIQUE D'ARD EL-KHERAIB À CARTHAGE [BOUND WITH] 
LE SANCTUAIRE DE BAAL ET DE TANIT PRÈS DE SIAGU., 
Paris: Ernest Leroux. 1908 - 09 - 10. First 
edition. Large octavo, bound in half red cloth 
with red leather spine panel, raised bands, gilt 
titles. Issued as Notes & documents publiés par 
la Direction des antiquités et arts. II, III and 
IV. Three works bound together, the first 127 pp. 
Index, illus, one plate; the second 84 pp. 
illustrated, 7 plates, the third 58 pp, 
illustrated, 9 plates. Some small notes in pen to 
the indexes and the rear endpapers, partially 
hand-titled in pen on spine. Very good, overall. 
A bound volume of three very rare works of Tunisian Archaeology. $175.00

Reitzenstein, R[ichard]., LUGAL UD ME-LÁM-BI 
NIR-GÁL: LE RÉCIT ÉPIQUE ET DIDACTIQUE DES 
TRAVAUX DE NINURTA, DE DÉLUGE ET DE LA NOUVELLE 
CRÉATION. TOME 1: INTRODUCTION. TEXTE COMPOSITE. 
TRADUCTION., Leiden : E.J. Brill. 1983. 1st 
edition. Quarto, original blue cloth, gilt 
titles. 147 pp., frontispiece. A fine copy. $100.00

SEYRIG, Henri., ANTIQUITÉS SYRIENNES. DEUXIEME 
SERIE. EXTRAIT DE SYRIA 1934-1936-1937. CORRIGÉ 
SUR CERTAINS POINTS, ET AUGMENTE D'UN INDEX POUR 
LES DEUX SERIES., Paris: Librairie Orientaliste 
Paul Geunther. 1938. First edition. Quarto, 
original printed wrappers. 121 pp. plates. Issued 
as: Haut-Commissariat de la Republique Francaise 
en Syrie et au Liban Service Des Antiquites 
Publications Hors Serie No. 5. A bit split at 
spine head; a fine, unopened copy. $125.00

SEYRIG, Henri., ANTIQUITÉS SYRIENNES. TROISIEME 
SERIE. EXTRAIT DE SYRIA 1939-1940-1941. AUGMENTE 
D'UN INDEX POUR LES TROIS SERIES., Paris: 
Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geunther. 1946. First 
edition. Quarto, original printed wrappers. 228 
pp. plates. Issued as: Institut français 
d'archéologie de Beyrouth. Publications hors 
série, no. 7. Spine frayed; very good. $100.00

SEYRIG, Henri., ANTIQUITÉS SYRIENNES. QUATRIEME 
SERIE. EXTRAIT DE SYRIA 1944-1952. CORRIGÉ SUR 
CERTAINS POINTS, AUGMENTE D'UN CHAPITRE, ET D'UN 
INDEX POUR LES QUATRES SERIES., Paris: Librairie 
Orientaliste Paul Geunther. 1953. First edition. 
Quarto, original printed wrappers. 238 pp. 
plates. Issued as: Institut français 
d'archéologie de Beyrouth. Publications hors 
série, no. 8. A bit bumped, spine slightly torn; very good. $100.00

Schollmeyer, Dr. P Anastasius (along with) Gray, 
Clifton Daggett, SUMERISCH-BABYLONISCHE HYMNEN 
UND GEBETE AN SAMAS [ALONG WITH] THE SAMAS 
RELIGIOUS TEXTS: CLASSIFIED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM 
CATALOGUE AS HYMNS, PRAYERS AND INCANTATIONS., 
Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 1912 / Chicago: 
University of Chicago Press. 1901. Two volumes 
bound together, both are first editions. Octavo, 
bound in early Twentieth Century brown cloth, 
gilt titles to spine, binder's ticket "Wilh. 
Johanssons Bookbinder Uppsala" on front endpaper. 
(Schollmeyer): 137 pp., text in German; (Gray) 23 
pp + 20 plates, text in English. Two works bound 
as one, both with separate title pages. Fine copy. Both works are rare. $225.00

Thureau-Dangin, F., RITUELS ACCADIENS., Paris: 
Ernest Leroux. 1921. First edition. Quarto, bound 
in full tan cloth, gilt titles to spine. 154 pp, 
plates. Rituels du Kalu, du temple d'Anu a Urute 
et fetes du nouvel an a Babylone. A few marks to 
the text, spine panel slightly sunned; a very good copy. $150.00

VERMASEREN, M.J., CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM ET 
MONUMENTORUM RELIGIONIS MITHRIACAE., Hagae 
Comitis, M. Nijhoff. 1956-1960. First edition. 
Two volumes, Quarto, original cloth. Vol 1: 366 
pp. + [125] pp. Plates, plus line drawings in the 
text, and bibliography. Vol 2: 448 pp plus 178 pp 
Plates, folding map at rear, Indexes, Appendixes, 
Supplements to Vol 1. Some pencil notes to rear 
endpapers, but overall a near fine set. An 
comprehensive catalogue of Mithraic carvings, 
monuments and inscriptions throughout Europe, 
illustrated with 664 photographic images.Rare. $500.00

WEIR, John, D.A., THE VENUS TABLETS OF 
AMMIZADUGA., Istanbul: Nederlands 
Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut in het Nabige 
Oosten. 1972. First edition. Large square octavo, 
original tan printed wrappers. 80 pp. "The Venus 
tablets of Ammizaduga are the most striking 
documents of early Babylonian astronomy". Near fine copy. $75.00

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