CORPUS OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN SEALS IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS - Porada, 1st 1948

CORPUS OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN SEALS IN NORTH AMERICAN COLLECTIONS - A PROJECT OF THE IRANIAN INSTITUTE, THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND THE YALE BABYLONIAN COLLECTIONBook Details + Condition: The Bollingen Foundation and Pantheon Books (Washington, DC). First Edition, 1948. Hardcover quarto (12.5" x 9.5"). From the Collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, catalogued and edited by Edith Porada. In Collaboration with Briggs Buchanan and with a Preface by Albrecht Goetze. Two-volume hardcover set with original slipcase (both labeled Volume I, but this is complete). Pagination: 187pp; 189pp, with Tables and Index. Profusely illustrated with plates and maps. The first volume of the two-volume set consists of photographic plates of Near Eastern seals, while the second volume adds corresponding descriptions to each plate. From the massive historical collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. A rare collect