From the Tablets of Sumer: Twenty-Five Firsts in Man's Recorded History
Language: English
Published by The Falcon's Wing Press, Indian Hills CO, 1956
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: overbrook house, Milton, DE, U.S.A.overbrook house
AbeBooks seller since June 3, 2026
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 30.82
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Hard cover, 2-color printed. Book jacket in shambles. Minimal markings on pages 143, 144 only. Some 50 B&W illustrations including photographs. Sumerians developed literary, moral, theological, legal and cultural ideals more than 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, and wrote them down on clay tablets using cuneiform. Dr. Kramer identifies and discusses ideas, beliefs and tales that have persisted into modern times.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- From the Tablets of Sumer: Twenty-Five Firsts in Man's Recorded History
- Author
- Samuel Noah Kramer
- Publisher
- The Falcon's Wing Press, Indian Hills CO
- Publication year
- 1956
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Poor
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item weight
- 1.4 pounds
- Dimensions
- 6 inches width by 8.7 inches height by 1.6 inches depth
overbrook house
Milton, DE, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since June 3, 2026
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