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A MOUND OF MANY CITIES; or, Tell El Hesy Excavated. Second edition, revised
London: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1898. Octavo, mustard cloth stamped in black & gilt, black endpapers. pp xii, 204, [1], (2, ads), [2] + 4 folding plates; many illustrations in text. Spine lightly darkened, with the gilt lettering dull, else a VG+ clean, tight & unworn copy, no owner names. First ed. was in 1894. "Tell el-Hesi is a 25 acre archaeological site in Israel. It was the first major site excavated in Palestine, first by Flinders Petrie in 1890 and later by Frederick Jones Bliss in 1891 and 1892." - Wiki.
Book ID: 40943More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF HOMER. The Second Edition
Book ID: 33457More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CERAMICS OF TRES ZAPOTES VERACRUZ, MEXICO
Edition: First Edition
Washington, D.C: United States Govenment Printing Office, 1943. pp xiv, 144, [1] + 39 double-side plates + blank leaf; indexed, illustrations in text. Bit of wear to spine tips, small chip to front cover, private bookplate inside front cover, VG otherwise. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 139.; Octavo
Book ID: 27158More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ANCIENT MYCENAE, the capital city of Agamemnon
Edition: First Edition
Priceton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1957. Terra cotta cloth. pp (x), 199, [1], (46, double-sided plates). School rubber stamp and blind stamp on front free endpaper, blind stamp on half-title leaf, no other marks; yellowing to page edges; else fine. Price-clipped jacket has shallow chip across head of spine, nicks, slight rubbing, VG otherwise. Story of the excavation by the Greek Archaeological Society in 1952-54 of the second Grave Circle at Mycenae, told by a member of the party. ; Octavo
Book ID: 39498More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
ANNUAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT 1903, being part of an appendix to the report of the Minister of Education Ontario
Toronto: L.K. Cameron, King's Printer, 1904. Red cloth. pp 150, [2]. 66 figures in text, including photos. Spine a little darkened, mild cover soiling, band of sunning to fore margin of rear cover, else a else a VG clean and unworn copy. Articles on Indians; Octavo
Book ID: 54815More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, c1981. Second printing. Cloth & boards. pp (xx), 347, endpaper maps. Tables and maps in text, bibliography, index. "Not for Resale" rubber stamped at front, else VG in lightly used VG price-clipped jacket. An account of the extensive library of clay tables from the ancient empire of Ebla, situated in Syria. ; Octavo 0385131526
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 44820More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
Bones: Discovering the First Americans
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Random House Canada, 2001. Brown boards. pp (12), 628. Index. Fine in fine jacket. 'Scientists not so long ago unanimously believed that people first walked to the New World from northeast Asia across the Bering land bridge at the end of the Ice Age 11,000 years ago. But in the last ten years, new tools applied to old bones have yielded evidence that tells an entirely different story.' 1.5 kg parcel. 0679310657
Book ID: 47206More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society
Edition: First printing
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Cloth & boards. pp (xvi), 256 + colour photos. B&w photos in text, index. Fine in fine jacket. 0195170431
Book ID: 47195More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
CITY OF SOKRATES: an introduction to classical Athens
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. Octavo; 265 pages
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 54461More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
DIVING INTO THE PAST. Theories, Techniques, and Applications of Underwater Archaeology.
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Socity and the Council of Underwater Archaeology, 1963. Blue cloth. [12], 111 pp. Text in double columns, photos in text. Minor cover soiling; else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no previous owner marks. The Proceedings of a Conference on Underwater Archaeology Sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, April 26-27, 1963.; Quarto
Book ID: 18343More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
EBLA: an empire rediscovered. Translated by Christopher Holme
New York: Doubleday, 1981. Cloth & boards. pp 237, index, bibliography, many photos, diagrams, plans, in text. "Not for Resale" rubber stamped on front free endpaper, yellowing to page edges, small corner crease to a number of leaves, VG otherwise. Price-clipped jacket has moderate edge wear; good. Discovery of an ancient city in Northern Syria dating from 2400 BC, the seat of a powerful empire.; Tall octave
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 44819More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
EVERYDAY LIFE IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES
New York: Scribner's (1956). Third printing. Beige cloth. pp (xx), (236). 102 illustrations, index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has small chips and tears at spine ends, short tears to panels, VG otherwise.
Book ID: 44201More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
Frans Blom, Maya Explorer
Edition: First Edition
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. Grey cloth. pp (xiv), 291 + plates. Maps in text, index, notes, bibliography. Glue residue inside front cover from removed label, else fine. Thin price-clipped jacket has minor use, spine sunned, VG generally. ; Octavo 0826304087
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 44796More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
FROM THE STONE AGE TO CHRISTIANITY: monotheism and the historical process
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1946. Second edition, with slight revision. Octavo, dark grey cloth. pp (xii), 367. Notes, index. Ink owner name at front, covers a little seasonably bowed, else a fine, jacketless copy. 1.5 kg parcel.
Book ID: 47202More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period
Edition: First Edition
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003. Glossy pictorial boards without jacket, as issued. pp xii, 612. Illustrated. Fine copy. Papers from a conference held at Tel-Aviv University in 2001. (1) The Myth of the Empty Land Revisited; (2) Cult, Priesthood, and Temple; (3) Military and Governmental Aspects; (4) Archaeological Perspectives on the 6th Century B.C.E.; and (5) Exiles and Foreigners in Egypt and Babylonia. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo 1575060736
Book ID: 50991More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
LES GUTTI ET LES ASKOI À RELIEFS ÉTRUSQUES ET APULIENS. Essai de classification et de typologie.
Edition: First Edition
Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval / Leyde: Brill / Toronto: Samuel Stevens, Hakkert, 1976. Blue cloth. xviii, 476, [2]; (xiv), (75) pp. Fingernail-size chip to fore margin of rear blank of volume I; a few small spots to front cover of Volume II; else a fine pair, without jackets, as issued. Volume II is the plates volume, with 256 figures on 73 plates plus two maps at rear. Etruscans. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra postage will be required; Quarto
Book ID: 12736More details Price: USD $49.50 USD $44.55 -
NEW TESTAMENT TIMES
Edition: First Edition
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1965. Green illustrated cloth. pp (xvi), 396. Illustrated, maps, charts, index. Ink name at front, rubber stamped name on fore edges, short tear to lower margin of two leaves at front neatly repaired (no text affected), yellow highlighting to 7 pages of text in chapter three, else a nice clean and unworn copy in worn, tattered jacket.
Book ID: 43640More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
Nordisk Tidsskrift for Oldkyndighed, udgivet af det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab
Copenhagen: J. D. Qvist, 1832. Vol. I only (of 3). Original printed wraps; 446 pp with untrimmed fore and bottom edges, four folding engraved plates at rear. Inscribed, in French, at front from the (Danish) Royal Society of Nordic Antiquities to Monsieur le Conseiller [Joaquim José da Costa] de Macedo, secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Lisbon. Spine slightly yellowed; damp-stain to the fore margin of about 15 leaves at rear; yellowing to page edges; nearly fine otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50673More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
OFFA'S DYKE: a field survey of the western frontier frontier-works of Merica in the seventh and eight centuries A.D. With a Foreword by Sir Frank Stenton, F.R.A.
Edition: First Edition
London: The British Academy, 1955. Brown cloth. pp (xxviii), (318), [2] + 46 plates, 121 figures (one folding), index. Fine copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has yellowing, light soiling, small chips and tears; good. The dark ran along the border of Mercia and Wales. 2 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 50178More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
Prehistory of Western Siberia
Arctic Institute of North America /McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974. Tall octavo, maroon cloth. pp (xxviii), 377 + 2 folding maps at rear; many text illustrations. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has a large skinned spot to upper front panel, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required. 0773590749
Book ID: 35148More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00