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SOUTHERN ARABIA
Edition: First US edition
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.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 25875More details Price: USD $19.95 -
TELL EL HESI. Mondern Military Trenching and Muslim Cemetery in Field I, Strata I- II.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Book: Fine, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 21042More details Price: USD $39.50 -
THE EARTHEN BARROW IN BRITAIN. An introduction to the study of the funerary practice and culture of hte neolithic people of the third millennium B.C.
University of Toronto Press, 1970. Quarto, brown cloth, tan endpapers. pp xvi, 208 + 36 plates; 58 drawings in text, idexed. Rubber stamped star (remainder mark) on half-title leaf; else a fine copy. Dust jacket has small tears along top edge, near fine otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 25878More details Price: USD $30.00 -
THE EQUESTRIAN OFFICIALS OF TRAJAN AND HADRIAN: Their Careers, with Some Notes on Hadrian's Reforms...
Edition: First Edition
Princeton, NJ / London: Princeton University Press / London: Humprey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. Octavo, grey printed card covers. (viii), 87 pp. Light tanning to margins of covers, very small chips to spine tips & outer corners, VG tight copy. "Presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 17387More details Price: USD $25.00 -
THE STONE BRONZE AND IRON AGES. A Popular Treatise on Early Archaeology.
Edition: First edition.
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1892. Octavo, hardcover, grey-green pictorial cloth stamped in red, black, blind, and gilt. cream endpapers. pp xvi, 285. Many illustrations in text. Period private bookplate inside front cover; spine lightly darkened; small bumps to lower outer corners of covers; nearly fine otherwise, clean, tight and unworn, hinges not cracked. Watters p. 917. Story p. 371. The author emigrated from Scotland to Summerside, P.E.I. in 1875, where he became editor of the Summerside "Progress". He was federal inspector of fisheries 1879-1889. He wrote this and one other non-fiction book, as well as drama and better than average poetry. Nice copy of a scarce book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31889More details Price: USD $75.00 -
Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London. Vol. V. New Series
Edition: First edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48485More details Price: USD $95.00 -
UEBER HOCHÄCKER. Sonderabdruck aus "Beiträge zur Anthropologie und Urgeschichte Bayerns." Mit 2 Tafeln und 13 Karten.
Edition: First edition.
München: Friedrich Bassermann, 1893. Quarto. Bound in contemporary quarter blue cloth and marbled boards, original blue card front cover bound in. 40 pp + 13 maps (12 folding) + 2 sepia plates. Minor wear to tips of very lightly sunned spine; boards have rubbing to edges, small paper surface loss to fore margin of front cover, rubbing to rear cover; text paper lightly toned; dust soiling to a few margins. Generally VG externally, fine internally, tight in the binding, no previous owner marks. I believe this offprint is about agricultural fields at higher elevations in Bavaria in Roman times. Scarce.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 20959More details Price: USD $75.00 -
UP HILL AND DOWN DALE IN ANCIENT ETRURIA.
Edition: First US issue
New York: Appleton, 1910. Made from UK sheets. Blue pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. 320 pp + frontispiece with tissue guard, 11 plates, and one map. Shallow chipping to cloth at spine tips; one inch split to top spine fold, and partially cracked front inner hinge, neatly repaird; text paper slightly tanned; rubber stamp to front pastedown; moderate wear to outer corners; else a VG copy, text clean and unworn. Travels to study the abandoned sites of the ancient Etruscans.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 7105More details Price: USD $35.00