Rapport à Son Excellence M. le ministre d'Etat sur les inscriptions assyriennes du British Museum (publié avec l'autorisation du ministre)

First edition, only two copies listed in the CCF (Archives nationales, Arras).

Spine split with some losses. 

Complete with the two successive reports (1 February 1862; 6 June 1863).

The magistrate Joachim Ménant (1820–1899) gained his reputation not as a jurist but as an Assyriologist, through his studies of cuneiform inscriptions on which he published extensively. He turned to this subject early on, at first merely presenting the results reached by the Assyriologist Jules Oppert in the interpretation of the inscriptions, but gradually adding original ideas to those he had borrowed from others.