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BUDGE, E. A. Wallis. Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and therapeutics or "The Book of Medicines." The Syriac Text, edited from a rare manuscript with an English Translate, Etc. Vols. I & II. Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, London, 1913.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Published under the direction of the Royal society of Literature of the United Kingdom. 2 vols.: clxxviii, 612; xxv, 804 p. 23 cm. Rebound in red leatherette. New endpapers. Budge, an Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum, published numerous works on the ancient Near East. His translation of The Book of Medicines contains numerous prescriptions which he concludes must have been written by physicians both "ignorant and superstitious." Budge may be referring to recipes such as: "the brains of a weazel dried and drunk in vinegar" and "mice dung, with the ashes of burnt wasps, and burnt hazel-nuts." Such rituals as "To stop bleeding at the nose . Put a piece of hot hog's turd as it comes from the hog, up the nose" might make the patient prefer the disease.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

Budge, E. A. Wallis. Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics or "The Book of Medicines": The Syriac Text, Edited Rrom a Rare Manuscript, With an English Translation (Two Volume). Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1913.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Cloth, 8vo. 1st edition. 612 & 804 pp. Red boards with gilt at spine. Both volumes Fine in like dust jackets. Volume 1: Introduction & Syriac text. Volume 2: English translation & index.

Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

BUDGE, E.A. Wallis. Syrian anatomy pathology and therapeutics or "the bookd of medicines." The Syriac text, edited from a rare manuscript, with an English translation, etc.. Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, London, etc., 1913.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: Titles in red and black. Publisher's red cloth, titles in gilt on spine. A fine set.

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

WALLIS BUDGE, E.A.. SYRIAN ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS, OR ?THE BOOK OF MEDICINES?. The Syriac Text, Edited from a Rare Manuscript, with an English Translation. [Set of Two Volumes:] Volume I. Introduction; Syriac Text. Volume II. English Translation and Index. London: Published under the direction of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913., 1913.

Price: US$682.26 + shipping

Description: 8vo., pp.clxxviii,614;xxv,804 red cloth, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are lightly worn to extremities, with possible light worming to front lower margin of jacket to Volume I, and with foxing/mottling to spines - now in protective covers and otherwise very good.

Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom

E. A. Wallis Budge. Syrian Anatomy Pathology and Therapeutics of "The Book of Medicines", 1913, Volume I (1), Volume II (2). Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913.

Price: US$688.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: "The Syriac text, edited from a rare manuscript, with an English translation, etc. Published under the direction of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom." Volume I: Introduction (CLXXVIII pages), Syriac Text (612 pages). Volume II: English Translation and Index, 804 pages. Previous owners name imprinted on each title page. Two pages of the "Contents" section of Volume II are completely loose but present. The remainder of pages are clean and tight. Hinges are beginning to split but holding firm. Red cloth covered boards are slightly faded and worn at top of spines. Dust jackets are present but discolored and ragged.

Seller: BookOrders, Russell, IA, U.S.A.