Item 13768The Chaldean Account of Genesis. Containing the description of the creation, the fall of man, the deluge, the tower of Babel, the times of the patriarchs, and Nimrod; Babylonian Fables, and legends of the gods; from the cuneiform inscriptions.
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, And Rivington, 1876. 5th Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 319, 24pp. Publishers gilt and patterned maroon buckram binding. Charcoal-colored endpapers. Silver-gelatin photographic frontispiece of Nimrod mounted on heavier weight paper and protected by tissue guard. George Smith was the head of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum.....