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Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Royal octavo, red cloth with gold lettering, photo-gravure frontispiece, xxiv, 810 pp., b/w illustrations (in-text and full-page), general index, index to scriptural quotations, four maps in pockets under the pastedown endpapers. Mostly un-cut.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Large quarto (12 x 9 1/4"). xix, [1], 87, [11]pp (Text); 72, xvii leaves (Plates); [2]pp (Corrections and Additions). Modern olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Sumerian administrative documents pertaining to the Murashû's Sons, a prominent banking and commercial family in the Babylonian city of Nippur, active during the reigns of Artaxerxes I and Darius II. In 1893 an expedition from the University of Pennsylvania uncovered 730 clay tablets from the family archive dating from 455 to 403 b.c.e. The texts deal with diverse undertakings such as payment of taxes on behalf of others, land management, and the granting of loans to be repaid at a high rate of interest. This volume contains 72 plates of autograph texts as well as 17 plates of b/w photographic reproductions. Ex-library bookplate on inside of front cover, and pocket on inside of back cover. Ex-library stamp to top and bottom edges. Binding and interior in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 9"). xv, [1], 174, [2]pp (Text), 68, xii leaves (Plates). Modern olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. All the tablets here published were excavated in Nippur during the second to fourth expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania (1889-1900), and form part of the so-called Temple Archives of Nippur partly published by Clay. The letters may be conveniently subdivided into three classes: (a) Letters of diverse writers addressed a-na be-li-ia, "TO MY LORD," i.e., letters written by various royal and Temple officials and addressed TO THE KING, Nos. 1-74. (b) One letter from a king (LUGAL) to Amel-Marduk, or, more specifically, a letter of King Shagarakti-Shuriash to his sheriff-in-chief and attorney of state (GÜ. EN. NA), No. 75, see pp. 132ff. (c) Letters of several writers to certain persons named in the address; in other words, letters constituting an official correspondence between officers of the Temple and the State, Nos. 76ff This volume is illustrated with 68 plates of autograph texts, and 12 plates of halftone reproductions. Ex-library bookplate on inside of front cover, and pocket on inside of back cover. Ex-library stamp to top and bottom edges. Binding and interior in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 9"). viii, [2], 79, [13]pp (Text), 71, xiii leaves (Plates); [2]pp (Corrections). Modern olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. The legal and business documents of the first dynasty of Babylon are well represented in the Babylonian collections of the University of Pennsylvania. While those excavated by the University Expedition at Nippur have been reserved for the second part of this volume, the 119 tablets here published have been taken from different collections which were bought for the University. This volume is illustrated with 71 plates of autograph texts, and 13 plates of halftone reproductions. Ex-library bookplate on inside of front cover, and pocket on inside of back cover. Ex-library stamp to top and bottom edges. Binding and interior in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 9"). xi, [1], 68, [2]pp (Text), 72, xii leaves (Plates); [2]pp (Additions and Corrections). Modern olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. The greater part of the tablets here published were discovered during the second Expedition to Nippur, sent out by the Babylonian Committee of the University of Pennsylvania, in the years 1889-90, under the directorship of Prof. John P. Peters. The tablets were found quite close to the south-west wall of the palace, known as the "Court of Columns." This palace was situated in the northern part of the western half of the city, opposite to the Temple of Bêl, and almost directly west of it. Nearly all of these tablets are of a redish terra-cotta, and are thoroughly baked; in consequence of which, they are unusually well preserved. This volume is illustrated with 72 plates of autograph texts, and 12 plates of halftone reproductions. Ex-library bookplate on inside of front cover, and pocket on inside of back cover. Ex-library stamp to top and bottom edges. Binding and interior in very good condition.

Condition: Good. Half brown morocco over brown cloth. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and gilt lettering to spine. Five raised bands. Binding remains tight and handsome, with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 9.5 x 12.5 in.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 688 pages. 9.02x5.98x1.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.