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Hooker, and Antiquities by Sir A. H. Layard. 4575 WALLACE (R.) Antitrinitarian Biography, or Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Distinguished Antitrinitarians, 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, 158 1850 III. BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS. 4576-4658 I. ANTIQUITIES. 1 THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT GREEK INSCRIPTIONS in the British Museum, edited by C. T. NEWTON, part I, Attika, edited by the Rev. E. L. HICKS, folio, viii and 160 pp. 3 plates of the Ground-plan, Sections, and Details of Erechtheion, bds. £1. 1874 2 Description of the Ancient Terracottas, by T. Combe, 4to. £1. 11s 6d -Large Paper, £2. 12s 6d 1810 Marbles, 11 parts, 4to. bds. £24. 5s 6d— the same, impl. 4to. Large paper, bds. £35. 17s 6d 1812-61 4 Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, Vol. I, 8vo. 5s; fine paper, 7s 6d 3 1870 5 Tablets and other Egyptian Monuments, from the Collection of the Earl of Belmore, folio, 158 1843 6 Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character, from Assyrian Monuments, discovered by A. H. Layard, D.L.C., folio, £1. 1s 1851 7 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS OF WESTERN ASIA, Prepared for publication by Maj.-Gen. Sir H. C. Rawlinson, K.C.B., assisted by E. Norris, Vol. I, folio, £1. 8 1861 Vol. II, folio, £1. 1866 BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS-continued. 9 THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS OF WESTERN ASIA, Vol. III. Prepared for publication by Major-General Sir H. C. Rawlinson, K.C.B., F.R.S., &c., assisted by George Smith, Depart. of Antiquities, fol. £1. VOL. IV: RAWLINSON 10 1870 (Sir Henry C.) Selections of the Miscellaneous Inscriptions of Assyria, edited by GEORGE SMITH, impl. folio, 70 lithographed sheets, bds. £1. 1875 11 Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character, discovered on the site of Carthage, during Researches by Nathan Davis, Esq., 1856-58, fol. £1. 58 1863 12 Inscriptions in the Himyaritic Character, discovered chiefly in Southern Arabia, fol. 16s sheets; £1. 4s boards 1863 13 Inscriptions in the Hieratic and Demotic Character, fol. £1. 78 6d 1868 II. COINS. 14 Catalogue of the Anglo-Gallic Coins, by E. Hawkins, 4to. £1. 4s 1826 15 CATALOGUE OF THE GREEK COINS, Vol. I: ITALY, 8vo. many hundred woodcuts, cloth, £1. 5s 1873 CONTENTS:-Etruria, Umbria, Picenum, Vestini, Latium, Samnium, Frentani, Campania, Apulia, Calabria, Lucania and Bruttii. Vol. II: SICILY, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. full of woodcuts, cloth, 21s 16 17 18 19 1876 · Vol. III: The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Moesia, Thrace, etc. by Barclay V. Head and Percy Gardner, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. numerous woodcuts, cloth, 21s 1877 Vol. IV: the Seleucid Kings of Syria, by Percy Gardner, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. 28 plates, cloth, 10s 6d 1878 Vol. V MACEDONIA, etc. by : Barclay V. Head, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. map and woodcuts, cloth, 258 "These volumes contain a Catalogue of the Coins according to the system of Eckhel. 1879 arranged "The metal of each coin is stated, and its size in inches and tenths. The weight is given in English grains of all gold and silver coins and of all copper coins of known denominations. Tables for converting grains into French grammes and inches into millimètres, as well as into the measure of Mionnet's scale, are placed at the end of the volume."-R. S. Poole. 20 CATALOGUE OF ORIENTAL COINS, by S. L. and R. Poole, Vol. I: the Coins of the Eastern Khaleefehs, 8vo. 8 plates, cl. rare 1875 the same, Vol. II: the Coins of the Mohammedan Dynasties, Classes III-X, 8vo. 8 plates representing nearly 100 figures, cloth, 12s 1876 21 the same, Vol. III: Coins of the Turkumán Houses of Seljook, Urtuk, Zengee, etc. 8vo. 12 plates of about 150 Coins, cloth, 12s 1877 the same, Vol. IV: The Coinage of Egypt (A.H. 358-922) under the Fatimee Khaleefehs, the Ayyoobees and the Memlook Sultans, 8vo. 8 plates, representing nearly 200 Coins, cloth, 12s 1879 BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS-continued. 24 CATALOGUE OF ORIENTAL COINS, Vol. V: Coins of the Moors of Africa and Spain; and the Kings and Imáms of the Yemen, by S. L. Poole, edited by R. S. Poole, 8vo. 7 plates, cloth, 98 24* 15s 1880 the same, Vol. VI: Coins of the Mongols, 9 plates, cloth, 1881 25 COMBE (Taylor) Veterum Populorum et Regum Numi qui in Museo Britannico adservantur, roy. 4to. 15 plates of Coins, hf. morocco, rare, 36s 1814 26 Nummi veteres Civitatum, Regum, Gentium, et Provinciarum, in Museo R. P. KNIGHT asservati, ab ipso ordine geographico descripti, roy. 4to. bds. 28s 1830 27 Roman Medallions, by H. A. Grueber and R. S. Poole, impl. 8vo. 66 plates, bds. 21s 1874 27aSYNOPSIS of the Contents: Department of COINS and MEDALS, a Guide to the principal GOLD and SILVER COINS of the Ancients, by B. V. HEAD, second issue, plates 8-14, second edition, 8vo. 6 plates, representing 70 Coins, bds. 2s 6d 1881 'In the first edition some eighty typical coins were exhibited in the photographic (autotype) plates. For the second edition Mr. Head resolved to photograph, not a selection, but the entire series of coins exhibited in the King's Library, and described in the Guide. This would require seventy plates. At the present price (half-a-crown) of the Guide, it was impossible to supply the whole of the seventy; and the plan was therefore adopted of giving seven plates at a time, and dividing the second edition into ten separate issues, each containing seven different plates, and thus presenting, when complete, the whole seventy. Ten half-crowns or 25s is a small price for a thoroughly representative series of photographs of nearly 800 of the finest Greek coins, extending from the birth of the art of coining, circ. 700 B.c. to the Christian era, with ample descriptions and historical and artistic introductions."-Academy, Oct. 1st, 1881. 276SYNOPSIS of the Contents of the British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals. Guide to the ENGLISH MEDALS exhibited in the King's Library, by H. A. GRUEBER, 8vo. 7 plates representing upwards of 100 figures, bds. 28 6d 27c 1881 "It is proposed, as soon as the first edition is exhausted, to issue a second with a new set of plates, and so forth until the whole exhibition has been illustrated."-Preface. Guide to the Italian Medals exhibited in the King's Library, by C. F. Keary, first edition, 8vo. plates 1-7, bds. 2s 6d 1881 "Each subsequent edition will present a fresh set of plates until the whole exhibition has been thus reproduced.”—Preface. III. PAPYRI. 28 Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic Papyrus of the reign of Rameses III, oblong atlas folio, 79 large plates, with an historical and descriptive Introduction, and Translation by S. Birch, bds. £3. 1876 29 Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Part I, 4to. 10s-Large paper, 15s 1839 30 Select Papyri in the Hieratic Character. 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