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No Place: No Publisher, No Date. First Edition (& 1st printing). Large octavo, original printed wrappers. Pp 325-356. "An Offprint, "Reprint from Orientalia Vol 52 (1983). First separate edition. From the library of Mystical Philosopher, Mathematician, Egyptologist & Assyriologist Charles A. Muses, with his handwritten notes and checkmarks in pencil throughout. In one instance Muses has corrected one of the translations in the text. A very good clean copy. Edward Hincks, Irish Clergyman, Irish clergyman, best remembered as an Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform. He was one of the three men known as the "holy trinity of cuneiform", with Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Jules Oppert. After taking an M.A. at Trinity College, Dublin in 1817, he took on as the protestant pastor in Ardtrea and later, in Killyleagh. In the 1830s he turned his attention to Old Persian cuneiform, a form of writing that the Achaemenid emperors had used for monumental inscriptions in their own… Read More

Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1969., 1969. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine pane. A fine copy in dust wrapper, price corner clipped. First printing of this new edition. This book was originally issued pseudonomously in 1891.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. , [1953].. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Yeat, plus reproductions of Sturge Moore's designs for the covers of Reveries, Responsibilities, Per Amica Silentia Luna, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Tower, & The Winding Stair, as well as his designs for bookplates for Yeats and his wife. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper which has a couple of tiny chips, some light browning to the spine panel and a bit of dust soiling. Overall, a very attractive copy.

Dublin: The Dolmen Press. , 1962.. First Edition (& 1st printing). Thin octavo, original pictorial boards in dust wrapper. 47 pages, indexes, map endpapers. A fine copy in dust wrapper with the price corner clipped from the front flap.