AMULETS AND TALISMANS
Book Details + Condition: University Books (New Hyde Park, NY), 1968. By Sir E.A. Wallis Budge. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large octavo. 543 pages with Index. Includes 22 plates and 300 illustrations in text. Budge's monumental work on amulets and talismans was originally published under the title "Amulets and Superstitions" in 1930. The full title of the original edition offers more description: "Amulets and Superstitions: The Original Texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim Amulets and Talismans and Magical Figures, with chapters on the Evil Eye, the Origin of the Amulet, the Pentagon, the Swastika, the Cross (Pagan and Christian), the Properties of Stones, Rings, Divination, Numbers, the Kabbalah, Ancient Astrology, etc." The author, E.A. Wallis Budge, is famous as the then-Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum and remains one of the great scholars of ancient custom and belief.
Firm binding; light wear to boards, with some minor discoloration; foxing to upper text block; interior is clean and free of markings. Original dust jacket shows normal aging and wear, with chipping to corners and edges, and old staining to rear cover; it retains the original price.
