Sir E.A. Wallis Budge - Amulets and Talismans. [...] With twenty-two plates and three hundred illustrations in the text

Sir E.A. Wallis Budge - Amulets and Talismans. [...] With twenty-two plates and three hundred illustrations in the text - New York - Collier Books / The Macmillan Company - 1970 - 1st edition - [548] pp - Paperback - 13,5 x 20,5 cm.

Condition: Good.

Standard work on (the origin of) the magical belief in amulets and talismans, by the eminent Egyptologist Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857-1934). Illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions. With table of contents and index. Reprint of 'Amulets and Superstitions' (University College Oxford, 1930).

¶ "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."