Item #37866 Études sur les Origines de la Religion de L'Égypte; ( The Oriental Research series ). Samuel A. B. MERCER, A. Moret.

Études sur les Origines de la Religion de L'Égypte; ( The Oriental Research series ).

London: Luzac & Co., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xii + 106pp. Original navy cloth, spine titled in gilt, blind borders to both boards. Text in FRENCH. The author, Newfoundland-born Samuel A. B. Mercer (1879-1969) studied at Harvard, Heidelburg, and Munich universities, before taking a post as Professor of Semetic Languages and Egyptology at Trinity College in Toronto. He published widely, and founded the journals Egyptian Religion, Aethiopica. A frequent traveller to Egypt and Africa, he was present at the opening of the tomb of the Tutankhamen by Howard Carter in 1923. His English translation of the famous "Pyramid Texts" published in 1952, preceeded that of Faulkner by a number of years and was immensely important in opening up the religious literature of early Egypt to broader study. Mercer made extensive use of these Old Kingdomt texts - the oldest known religious texts in the world - in this ground breaking study of the origins of Egyptian religion. Spine and outer margins of boards faded, a few faint spots to cloth, spine ends and upper corners lightly bumped, light rubbing to extremities, light foxing to endpapers, pages lightly browned, two small pin holes through upper corner of last three leaves (not affecting text). Still a solid, unmarked VG copy. Item #37866

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