Item #67345 The Chaldean Account of Genesis. Containing the Description of the Creation, The Fall of Man, The Deluge, The Tower of Babel. the Times of the Patriachs, and Nimrod; Babylonian Fables, and Legends of the Gods; From the Cuneiform Inscriptions. George SMITH.

The Chaldean Account of Genesis. Containing the Description of the Creation, The Fall of Man, The Deluge, The Tower of Babel. the Times of the Patriachs, and Nimrod; Babylonian Fables, and Legends of the Gods; From the Cuneiform Inscriptions.

Minneapolis, MN: Wizard's Book Shelf, Secret Doctrine Reference Series, 1977. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. 322pp. Gilt decorated black faux leather with gilt title to spine and upper board, index and b&w illustrations. A facsmile reprint of the 1876 edition of this classic work by the English Assyriologist, George Smith, (1840-1876), in which he assembled the creation myths of ancient Babylonia and Assyria from surviving fragments. This edition is a volume of the Secret Doctrine Reference Series which reprinted works which were important to Mme. Blavatsky, and upon which she relied or quoted heavily from when writing "The Secret Doctrine." Just a hint of shelf wear - otherwise a tight, clean near Fine copy (no dust jacket - as issued). Item #67345
ISBN: 0913510661

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