A History of Babylonia and Assyria-Fast Shipping

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Title: A History of Babylonia and Assyria

Author: Robert William Rogers

Publisher: The Abingdon Press, New York and Cincinnati

Published: 1915

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: 6th edition

Number of Volumes: 2

Number of Pages: 1151

Catalogs: Ancient History, Middle East, World History

: Illustrated; ex-library. Two volumes, sixth edition. Contains a number of photographs, maps, and linguistic diagrams and reproductions of writing and inscriptions, some pull-out. Original maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Contains pasted catalog number on spine, embossed and ink stamps of the Congregational Library of Boston, and card pocket and slip on rear pastedown. Binding is slightly weak at rear hinges where pastedowns are split, but everything is intact. Spine ends are crushed with minor tearing on volume I. Volume I, Prolegomena, includes chapters on early travelers and decipherers, Grotefend and Rawlinson, early explorers in Babylonia, 18th and 19th century explorers in Babylonia and Assyria, the decipherment of Susian, Assyrian, Sumerian, Vannic, the sources on the history of the region, the land and peoples, and more. Volume II, the History of Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea, contains chapters on early Sumerian history, the empire of Sargon I, the fall of Larsa, the first and second dynasties of Babylon, the Kassite and Isin dynasties, the beginnings of Assyria, Tiglathpileser, Ashirnazirpal, Shalmaneser, Ashur-Nirari, the reign of Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Ashurbanipal, the Chaldean empire, Nebuchadrezzar, and more. Robert William Rogers, Ph.D., was a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. When he wrote this two volume work, he was a professor at Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey. Hardcover, good condition. Volume I is 542 pages, volume II is 609 pages, octavo.