Author: Lenormant, Francois (17 January 1837 - 9 December 1883)
8vo.(5.5" x 8.375")1877. Lenormant, Francois. London. Samuel Bagster and Sons. Full green publishers' cloth with blackstamp rule frames and symbols framing blackstamp title/author with blackstamp grotesque to upper board, blindstamp frames only to rear. Spine with blackstamp rule bands creating six compartments, gilt title/author to second compartment, gilt publisher colophon at foot, gilt "mystical" devices centered to each other compartment, blackstamp rule to head and foot of spine. Brown endpapers faded blue stamp and bookseller label of Truslove & Comba Booksellers to front pastedown, prior owners name neatly in ink to top of half-title page. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips, head and foot of spine chipped with loss, spine fabric chipped with tiny loss to gilt of author's name and publisher's colophon. Fore-edge of upper board dinged, upper hinge starting at head to midpoint of cover, covers lightly soiled, rubbed (see pic). A relatively rare title, in relatively good condition.
From Wiki: François Lenormant (17 January 1837 - 9 December 1883) was a 19th-century French Hellenist, Assyriologist, and archaeologist. Lenormant's father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egyptologist, was anxious that his son should follow in his steps. He made him begin Greek at the age of six, and the child responded so well to this precocious scheme of instruction, that when he was only fourteen an essay of his, on the Greek tablets found at Memphis, appeared in the Revue Archéologique. In 1856 he won the numismatic prize of the Académie des Inscriptions with an essay entitled Classification des monnaies des Lagides and in 1862 he became sub-librarian of the Institut de France. He summarized his studies in a popular Manuel d'histoire ancienne de l'Orient jusqu'aux guerres Médiques (Paris 1868). In 1874 he was appointed professor of archaeology at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and in the following year he collaborated with the Baron Jean de Witte in founding the Gazette archéologique. He was among the first to recognize in the cuneiform inscriptions the existence of a non-Semitic language he named Akkadian (today it is known as Sumerian). By 1881 he'd been named as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Probably the best known of his books are Les Origines de l'histoire d'après la Bible, and his ancient history of the East and account of Chaldean magic. He also contributed articles to the Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines.
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