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SABAEAN RESEARCHES In a Series of Essays, Addressed to Distinguished Antiquaries, and Including the Substance of a Course of Lectures, Delivered At the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the Engraved Hieroglyphics of Chaldea, Egypt, and Canaan
by Landseer, John
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About This Item
London; Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1823., 1823. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. Xi, 402 pp. Engraved frontispiece, vignette to half-title, thirteen illustrations in text plus plate of the Circular Ceiling from the Temple of Isis at Dendera as called for. Tan half-calf with five raised bands, stamped Maltese cross decoration, gilt-stamped title label. Top edge stained red. Calf worn at corners and beginning to split at joints of lower board; loss to title label edge. Ffep and following endpaper creased and torn (no text affected) ; frontis & title pages have faint damp-staining (semicircular mark at bottom edge approx 2 inches x 6 max) and there are foxing and minor marks throughout, mainly to margins. Scarce.
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- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 886
- Title
- SABAEAN RESEARCHES In a Series of Essays, Addressed to Distinguished Antiquaries, and Including the Substance of a Course of Lectures, Delivered At the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the Engraved Hieroglyphics of Chaldea, Egypt, and Canaan
- Author
- Landseer, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- London; Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1823.
- Date Published
- 1823
- Keywords
- Archaeology
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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