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First edition, with no deluxe-paper copies printed.
Illustrations.
A handsome copy despite the slightly faded spine.
Precious and fine signed presentation copy from Louis Aragon to Maurice Druon: "A Maurice Druon, pour qu'il sache que de temps je m'égarée dans Césarée. [sic] Louis".
First edition of the French translation, illustrated with a photographic portrait of Albert Einstein as frontispiece.
A small loss at the foot of the spine, which also shows rubbing along the joints, upper right corner of the front board starting to come loose, a slight marginal tear just below, pleasant internal condition, manuscript bookplate at the head of a flyleaf.
Annotations and markings in red pen on pages 8 and 9.
Work illustrated with figures in the text.
Rare first edition illustrated with 2 plates outside the text, including a frontispiece and a large folding facsimile of the inscription.
Contemporary green half sheep, spine faded and decorated with blind fillets and raised bands, a few scuffs to the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, corners bumped.
A few spots of foxing.
This inscription had been unearthed in Marseille in June 1845 and had already given rise to numerous attempts at interpretation.
It is now known as the “Carthage Tariff” and lay at the origin of the enduring myth of the city’s Phoenician origins: the religious regulations it records appeared to provide proof that...
