BUDGE, Ernest Alfred THOMPSON WALLIS - Amulets and Superstitions

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press and Humphrey Milford, 1930. FIRST EDITION. In-8, XXXIX-543 pp, red canvas decorated in gilt from the publisher on the spine AND cover (Most copies are blind-stamped). Original edition of this treaty relating to the amulets and superstitions of ancient peoples such as the Babylonians or the Egyptians as well as their various religious and mystical rituals. It is illustrated with 22 plates in black and 300 illustrations in the text, also in black. It contains reproductions and translations of the original texts. He is interested in the cabal, astrology and religious signs such as the cross (Christian and pagan) and the swastika. Orientalist and Egyptologist, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was in charge of the Egyptian and Assyrian collections of the British Museum, he notably acquired the copy of the Museum's Book of the Dead. He is the author of many books, many of them on religion in Egypt, such as his translation of the Book of the Dead, which in the society adept of the occultist who was his had a notable impact on authors such as William Butler Yeats and James Joyce. Former stamp on the title page of the High Commission of the French Republic. Some mild Rubs on the caps and wear at the tips, but an appealing copy now mylar protected and housed in a custom red slipcase.