Dark brown cloth boards with debossed decoration to boards and gilt particulars to spine. Bookplate of M.C.C. Stopes to front pastedown. Organized into two parts, Egypt and Babylonia, then further into 10 sections. Some topics for Egypt include: The Sun God and the Ennead, Animal Worship, The Sacred Books, and Osiris and the Osirian Faith, as well as others. Some topics for Babylonia include: Primitive Animism, The Sun-God and Istar, Cosmologies, Myths and Epics, Astro-Theology and the Moral Element in Babylonian Religion, as well as others. General wear to boards (see image) and some minor spotting to page edges, but not to interior pages. Sporadic dog-earing to corners of pages and notes in pencil to margins. Copious notes to back advertisement pages. vii, 509 pp. First Edition.
Title: The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, The Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conecption of the Divine, Delivered in Aberdeen
Edition: First Edition
Location Published: Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark: 1902
Book Condition: Very Good
Categories: Religion, History, Ancient History, Mysticism, Egypt
Seller ID: 5541