Thompson, R. Campbell, B. A. (Cantab.), Assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum (ed.) ‘[Luzac’s Semitic Text and Translation Series Vol. VI:] The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum. The Original Texts, Printed in Cuneiform Characters, Edited with Translations, Notes, Vocabulary, Index, and an Introduction. Vol. I. The Cuneiform Texts’ Luzac & Co., 1900, bound, as issued, with ‘[Luzac’s Semitic Text and Translation Series Vol. VII:] The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum. The Original Texts, Printed in Cuneiform Characters, Edited with Translations, Notes, Vocabulary, Index, and an Introduction. Vol. II. English Translations, Vocabulary, etc.’^[1].

Quarter-cloth with differently textured cloth-covered boards. Vol. I: [1 leaf] + [3] + [3] + [pp. viii-xvii] + [85 single-sided leaves of plates]. Vol. II: [3] + [3] + [pp. vii-ix] + [1] + [xiii-xxix] + [1 leaf] + [pp. xxxiii-xci] + [1 leaf] + 32 + [plate] + [pp. 33-111] + [pp. 113-147]

[1] Vol. II bears the same publication details as Vol. I

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printings of the first edition of 1900, a number of which (as here) were subsequently bound up by the publisher as two nominal volumes in one.

R. Campbell Thompson (1876-1941) used the opportunity afforded by his position as an assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum to prepare and translate this pioneering edition of ancient astrological reports that were found in the Kouyunjik Collection kept there.