Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[CUNEIFORM]. A Babylonian cuneiform clay brick or tablet in the 6th year of Darius, B.C.E. 516. Inset into a small octavo book finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with 10 manuscript leaves on heavy stock, text in red and black, several die?cut leaves with window frame showing the brick. The leaves describe the history of the cuneiform tablet as being a record of the amount of fruit that was in the storehouses found at Babylon.