1884 · New York
by Wright, William
New York: Scribner & Welford, 1884. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xx, [2], 200, [2] ads (for the London publisher, Nisbet); frontispiece map, 18 lithograph plates (3 double-page), a few illustrations in the text; original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; covers very lightly spotted, the title page and tissue guard a bit foxed, but in all a fine, tight copy. The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people living in what is now modern-day Turkey, who formed an empire between 1600-1180 BCE. William Wright (1837-1899) was an Irish missionary who first introduced the recently discovered Hittite Empire to the general public.
(Inventory #: 57811)