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A Selection from Stock
to illustrate our interest in books on
- the Ancient Near East, Archaeology and Assyrian
- Biblical Studies, Bookbinding and Byzantium
- Calligraphy, Coptic and Cuneiform
- Egyptology, Epigraphy and Ethiopian
- Papyrology, Philology and Phoenician
- Sinai, Syriac and Ugaritic
Inquiries
William Foxwell Albright |
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The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions and their Decipherment, 8vo, 2 ff., 46 pp., 11 figures on 4 plates, wrappers, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969.
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£35 |
Michele Amari |
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Le Epigrafi Arabiche di Sicilia, large 8vo, 4 ff., 351 pp., 1 f., 17 illustrations, cloth, decorative slipcase, Palermo, Flaccovio, [1971]. |
£120 |
Hans Bauer |
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Die Alphabetischen Keilschrifttexte von Ras Schamra, 8vo, v pp., 1 f., 74 pp., 1 f., uncut in printed wrappers (fore-edge somewhat frayed), Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1936. |
£30 |
Alexander Boehlig (introduction) |
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The Book of Proverbs. [Facsimile edition of Codex Ms.or.oct.987, the 3rd or 4th century Coptic papyrus in the German State Library of Berlin], 15 x 15cm, beautifully bound in imitation of the original Coptic blindstamped calf, with an explanatory bilingual English & German booklet, Munich, Verlag Dokumentation, n.d. (c.1960).
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£120 |
Anton Deimel |
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“Enuma Eliš”, sive Epos Babylonicum de Creatione Mundi, 8vo, ix pp., 1 f., 66 pp. (mainly in cuneiform autographed text), contemporary cloth preserving original wrappers (somewhat dog-eared), Rome, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1912. |
£75 |
Duncan Haldane |
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Islamic Bookbindings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, small folio, 205 pp., 175 plates (many in colour), cloth, [London], World of Islam Festival Trust, [1983]. |
£80 |
Brad Sabin Hill |
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Hebraica. Saec.X ad Saec.XVI. Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Library of the Valmadonna Trust.
An Exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 8vo, 4 ff., 29 pp., 50 ff., 32 ff.appendix, indices and bibliography, colour frontispiece and 50 plates (many in colour), Oxford, Oxford University Press for the Valmadonna Trust Library, 1989. Number 381 of 500 copies. |
£120 |
N.S.H.Jansma |
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Ornements des Manuscrits coptes du Monastère Blanc, large 8vo, xi, 253 pp.typescript, illustrated throughout with line-drawings of manuscript ornaments, 3 pp.Addenda tipped in, wrappers, Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen, 1973. |
£50 |
R.Kobert |
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Textus et Paradigmata Syriaca, 8vo, 106 pp., wrappers (spine darkened and somewhat worn), Rome, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1952. |
£55 |
Paul Anton de Lagarde |
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Didascalia Apostolorum Syriace, 8vo, 2 ff., vii, 121 pp. Syriac text, unopened in original wrappers (torn, spine crudely repaired), (Gottingen, Becker & Eidner, 1911). |
£150 |
Gaston Maspero |
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Notes sur la Grammaire Egyptienne de M.A.Erman, Small 4to, title and 63 pp., uncut in wrappers (upper cover almost detached, spine very worn), Paris, Edouard Champion, 1923. Offprint from Recueil de Travaux relatifs à la Philologie et à l’Archéologie Egyptiennes et
Assyriennes. |
£60 |
Sevket Rado |
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Türk Hattatlari, folio, 303 pp.Turkish text, illustrated throughout (occasionally in colour), cloth, Istanbul, n.d. (c.1970). The art of Ottoman calligraphy, with lengthy biographical notes on the principal exponents. |
£80 |
Antoine Saubin |
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Lexique Assyrien-Français, 8vo, 361 pp., cloth (spine faded), Paris, Maisonneuve, n.d. (1928). |
£120 |
A.H.Sayce |
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An Elementary Grammar; with full syllabary and progressive reading book, of the Assyrian Language, in the cuneiform type, 8vo, 4 ff., vi, 129 pp., publisher’s decorative cloth gilt (upper cover a bit spotted), London, Samuel Bagster,
[1875]. |
£60 |
Nathan Schur |
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Jerusalem in Pilgrims’ and Travellers’ Accounts. A Thematic Bibliography of Western Christian Itineraries. 1300-1917, 4to, 151 pp., 4 ff., cloth, Jerusalem, Ariel Publishing House,
[1980]. |
£40 |
Warren T.Treadgold |
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The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius, 8vo, xv, 206 pp., frontispiece, cloth in dust-wrappers, Washington D.C., Dumbarton Oaks, 1980. |
£60 |
A.S.Yahuda |
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The Language of the Pentateuch in its relation to Egyptian. Volume One (all published), large 8vo, xxxviii, 310 pp., 1 f., 16 pp. autographed hieroglyphic appendix, cloth (small stain
on upper cover, corners bumped), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1933. |
£50 |
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