Babylonian Magic and Sorcery being "The Prayers of the Lifting of the Hand." The Cuneiform Texts of a Group of babylonian and Assyrian Incantations and Magical Formulae edited with Transliterations, Translations, and Full Vocabulary from Tablets of the Kuyunjik Collections Preserved in the British Museum by King, Leonard W.; Foreword by R.A. Gilbert - 2000

York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 2000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxviii + 199 pages, plus 76 pages of plates. One tiny corner bump otherwise a near fine copy in like dust jacket. First published in 1896, King presents the cuneiform text of a group of 60 clay tablets inscribed with prayers and religious compositions of a devotional and magical character. These tablets were created by the scribes of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, between 669-625 b.c., and are currently part of the Kuyunjik collection in the British Museum. King's illustrations feature a transliteration of each tablet with an English translation of well-preserved passages. King includes a Babylonian-English glossary, a list of proper names and numerals with their corresponding cuneiform inscriptions, and a list of words and word portions of uncertain translation.