Impressive show of Hungarian breeding skills at the fin-de-siècle, documented in a century of high-quality photoengravings. Fifty of the hundred plates are dedicated to horses, including many of Arabian stock, such as Hamdani Semri, Jussuf, etc. Includes an autograph letter signed by the publisher ...

I. The first Chaldæan Empire and the Hyksôs in Egypt -- II. Syria at the beginning of the Egyptian conquest -- III. The eighteenth Theban dynasty -- IV. The reaction against Egypt -- V. The close of the Theban empire -- VI. The rise of the Assyrian empire -- VII. The Hebrews and the Philistines - ...