Gaston Maspero | The History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, London, 1903-6, 13 vols

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Gaston Maspero

History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria. London: The Grolier Society, 1903-1906

13 volumes, 8vo (254 x 178mm.), numerous plates and illustrations, contemporary maroon three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands in five compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, extremities slightly rubbed

The work of the French Egyptologist Maspero, which extends to nine volumes, is supplemented here by three volumes of S. Rappoport's History of Egypt from 330 B.C. to the Present Time and one volume of L. W. King and H. R. Hall's History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery.