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First Ed. L'ART DE LA MÉSOPOTAMIE Christian Zervos - First Edition of L'ART DE LA MÃSOPOTAMIE: DE LA FIN DU QUARTIÈME MILLÃNAIRE AU XV SIÈCLE AVANT NOTRE ÈRE, PAR CHRISTIAN ZERVOS [THE ART OF MESOPOTAMIA: FROM THE END OF THE FOURTH MILLENNIUM TO THE 15th CENTURY B.C., BY CHRISTIAN ZERVOS] | French - Published: Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 1935 | Hardbound (tan paper boards) with dust jacket: unpaginated | Approx. 300 pages, profusely illustrated, primarily with striking full-page b/w photographs of figurative sculptures or stone carvings. The bulk of the photographs were taken by Horacio Coppola | Approx. Size: Folio | This voluminous study covers the classical period of Mesopotamian art from its earliest times to the 15th Century B.C. (when the Sumerian race was absorbed by the Semites, up to the beginning of the Babylonian dynasties), and in the ancient civilizations of Elam, Sumer, and Akkad | Cahiers d'Art was founded in Paris in 1926 by Christian Zervos and became renowned not only for producing the definitive Picasso catalogue, but also the most exquisite publications illuminating early 20th-century art.