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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Cloth & boards. pp (xvi), 256 + colour photos. B&w photos in text, index. Fine in fine jacket.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. Yellow cloth. pp 267 + numerous plates (some in colour); line drawings and plans in text. Fine copy, no owner names, in VG jacket. Archaeology of Southern Arabia by an author who had lived in Aden for nearly 20 years, becoming Director of the Department of Antiquities for the government. A volume in the publisher's New Aspects of Archaeology series. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.