Essai de déchiffrement de l'écriture assyrienne, pour servir à l'explication du monument de Khorsabad - Exposé des éléments constitutifs du système de la troisième écriture cunéiforme de Persépolis

First edition of both these rare fascicules; the first is illustrated with three folding plates at the end of the volume, the second with in-text illustrations.

Contemporary half bottle-green calf binding, smooth spine gilt with fillets and dotted rolls, as well as black fillets, some minor rubbing to joints, headcap worn, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.

One of only three known contributions to the nascent field of Assyriology by the Austrian numismatist and traveller Isidore Löwenstern (1810–1858), who served as Danish consul in Constantinople.

Bound with, by the same author: Exposé des éléments constitutifs du système de la troisième écriture cunéiforme de Persépolis. Paris-Leipzig, Adolphe Franck, 1847, 101 pp., in-text illustrations. Copy from the library of the renowned archaeologist Honoré-Théodore, 8th Duke of Luynes (1803–1867), with his ex-libris vignette from the Château de Dampierre pasted to a pastedown.