[UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT OF 150 PAGES]. [Unidentified author] - Lot 171

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[UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT OF 150 PAGES]. [Unidentified author] - Lot 171
[UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT OF 150 PAGES]. [Unidentified author]. Chaldean eroticism, circa 1930. Manuscript of 150 pages, 28 x 21 cm, handwriting in blue ink, very legible, brown basane, on the first plate mosaic decoration of pieces of the same coloured skin forming a frame, diamond-shaped escutcheon in the centre stamped with a silver fleuron, spine ribbed, untrimmed (modern binding). Introduction to the manuscript: "...and this is the story that takes place in the fourteenth year of the reign of Sennacherib, king of Nineveh, destroyer of Balplace, according to scrolls found on the banks of the Euphrates in 1927 after Christ, during the reign of King George of England, the fifth of the name, ...who reigns over the same territories where once the proud cities rose, prospered and disappeared...", and which ends with "...thus ends the story translated from stone scrolls of King Sennacherib, master of Chaldea, and of all known East Asia..."
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