Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records

Penguin Books / A Pelican Book, Baltimore, MD. 1970. Softcover / Trade Wraps. First published by Pelican in 1970. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a highlighter mark on the front wrap verso. Book Condition: Good; edge wear to wraps and spine; small creases to front wrap at lower corner. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded, spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. [xxxii] 590 pp + [xxi] Index 12mo. The dirt archaeologists came first turning up ruins, graves and artifacts around the ancient world. Then came the scholar-adventurers to work in obscure places, This book gives a panorama of the astonishing work done to retrieve and restore the ancient texts and of the scholar-adventurers who gave us vast new knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mexico, and Central Asia, and of the origins of the Bible. A clean very presentable copy.