The Dawn of Conscience by Breasted, James Henry - 1946

New York: Charles Scribners, 1933 tidy copy of the first printing ( with A to imprint), head of spine split and reinforced on the reverse with pasted paper, fep has full page gift inscription in fountain pen dated 1933 (not by Breasted though) , rear hinge cracked, xvii 431pp + plates, investigates the ethical primacy of Egypt before Hebrew civilization. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. First Edition with "A" on copyright page. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Some wear. Owner's name on front end page. Related ephemera included (a review of the book, jacket remnants). xxvi, 431 p., ill., 21 cm. <br> "Here is the disclosed the genesis of the most tremendous transformation in the history of the universe: the process by which man has passed from his conquest of the material world to the amazing discovery of inner values, the victory over self and the vision of social responsibility. Through his years of research in Egypt and the Near East Dr. Breasted, going far below our earliest historical horizons, shows that conscience, the challenge of the voices within, dawned in the Valley of the Nile and had its first expression in inscriptions whose origin goes back to 5000 years B.C.