Horne, Charles F. (Ed. )

The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East : with Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation - Translations, Bibliographies, etc. by the Leading Orientalists...

New York. Parke, Austin and Lipscomb. 1917. Members Edition. Limited Issue consisting of 2000 numbered and registered sets of which this is Number 2. Illustrated with frontispieces and tissue - guarded duotone full page plates. 14 Volumes complete as issued. 8vo. Gilt titled and decorated cloth with colour pictorial pastedown to front cover of each volume. t.e.g.

Set consists of - 1: Babylonia and Assyria 2: Egypt 3: Ancient Hebrews 4: Medieval Hebrews 5: Ancient Arabia 6: Medieval Arabic, Moorish and Turkish 7: Ancient Persia 8: Medieval Persia 9: India and Brahmanism 10: India and Buddhism 11: Ancient China 12: Medieval China 13: Japan 14: The Great Rejected books of the Biblical Apocrypha. Contributions by many of the great Orientalists such as Morris Jastrow, E.A.W. Budge and Sir Gaston Maspero. A work of highly reputed scholarship and importance.

Large cosmetically treated chip to headpiece of volume 1. Offset from official seal of limitation certificate to prelims of volume 1. Some corners gently bumped. Various mild rubbing to head and tail pieces of most volumes. Generally a Near Fine to Fine, crisp, apparently seldom used set.Featured Lit.

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