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The Dawn of Conscience
by James Henry Breasted
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Boonsboro, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. First Edition with "A" on copyright page. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Some wear. Owner's name on front end page. Related ephemera included (a review of the book, jacket remnants). xxvi, 431 p., ill., 21 cm. <br> "Here is the disclosed the genesis of the most tremendous transformation in the history of the universe: the process by which man has passed from his conquest of the material world to the amazing discovery of inner values, the victory over self and the vision of social responsibility. Through his years of research in Egypt and the Near East Dr. Breasted, going far below our earliest historical horizons, shows that conscience, the challenge of the voices within, dawned in the Valley of the Nile and had its first expression in inscriptions whose origin goes back to 5000 years B.C.
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- Bookseller
- SequiturBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2312290021
- Title
- The Dawn of Conscience
- Author
- James Henry Breasted
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8x5x1
- Weight
- 1.38 lbs
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About SequiturBooks
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