The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. xxix, 428pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. Reprinted by the Columbia Planograph Company. "The earliest method by which, so far as we know, proprietary rights were recorded in the East was by the use of a seal in the shape of a cylinder, or an approximation to the cylinder, engraved with some special device peculiar to the owner." (Author). Extensive study of seal cylinders of the Middle East, Persia, and some seals with Greek influence. Illustrated with numerous in-text drawings of seals throughout. Binding with light wear along edges and some light staining, rubbed and lettering on spine partially fading. Block lightly age-toned. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ to very good condition. g- to vg. Item #44331
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