Anatolie

1892 · 64147 — London UK & New York NY: Chapman and Hall Ltd. 1892. Tall 8vo. 7.25 x 10.5 in. xii 405 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Titles in red & black. With 280 text woodcut engravings and plates. Illustrated brick red publisher’s cloth ancient motifs illustrated in light gray and black on front covers & spines white lettering front covers & gilt lettering on spines black clay-sized endpapers t.e.g. minor shelfwear scuffing faint tidemark at lower fore-edge front cover ex-lib markings on endpapers still a G set from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition in English of this detailed follow-up to the author’s histories of art of Egypt Chaldaea and Assyria with lavish woodcut engravings and extended descriptions of the architecture sculpture numismatics industrial arts and more from these early civilizations spread over present-day Turkey Chapman and Hall, Ltd., hardcover