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CRETE AND ITS TREASURES. Text by Professor Olivier Reverdin. Preface by Dr. N. Platon

By: Reverdin, Olivier

Price: $25.00

Publisher: (New York): The Viking Press, (1961).: (1961).

Seller ID: 22483

Condition: Good

(New York): The Viking Press, (1961).. (1961).. Good. - Quarto, dark brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The covers are lightly rubbed & bumped. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with a piece of the top edge of the rear panel torn & creased. The dust jacket has several tears along the edges of its spine with pieces out of the head & tail. 153 pages. Full-page color illustrations & profuse tipped-in color plates from photographs by Rudolph Hoegler, Dr. N. Platon, & Professor N. Creutzburg [who contributes a chapter on the flowers of Crete]. The top page c...
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A HISTORY OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA. Second Edition. 2 volumes

By: Rogers, Robert William

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York: Eaton & Mains / Cincinnati, OH: Jennings & Pye, 1901.: 1901.

Seller ID: 4221

Condition: Very good

New York: Eaton & Mains / Cincinnati, OH: Jennings & Pye, 1901.. 1901.. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the spines. The top edges are gilt. The spines are dampstained with the heads & tails chipped. The covers are bumped & rubbed with dampstaining to the inner edges & a few white stains, including a white mark to the Vol. 2 rear cover. xx & 429 pages; and xv & 418 pages. Volume 2 is illustrated with 2 folding plates & 3 textual illustrations. The inner edges of the endpapers are dampstained with slight rippling to the top edges of the prelims & rear blanks, else the contents a...
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TROJA: Results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, 1882.

By: Schliemann, Heinrich.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Arno Press, 1976.: 1976.

Seller ID: 94824

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, brick red cloth titled in gilt with a vignette in gilt on the spine. xl & 443 pages plus a double-page map & 2 double-page plans in black & gray. Also with profuse full-page & textual illustrations throughout. The top edge is lightly soiled. Near fine. Reprint edition. Originally published in 1884.
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TEPE HISSAR EXCAVATIONS 1931. The Museum Journal. Volume XXIII--Number 4--1933.

By: Schmidt, Erich F.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1933.: 1933.

Seller ID: 36765

Condition: Very good

- Quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The head & tail of the spine and the overlapping edges of the wrappers are chipped. [x] & pages 323-487. Pages of black-and-white illustrations numbered LXXIII to CLXXI, including archaeological maps, 2 of them folding. Very good. The aims of the Joint Expedition to Persia by the University Museum and the Pennsylvania Museum of art were twofold: "The first phase of its activities was the test of a Tell in Mesopotamia, namely Fara, supposedly the Sumerian Shuruppak.....Our second and principal task ...
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WINGS OVER HELLAS: Ancient Greece from the Air.

By: Schoder, Raymond V.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.: 1974.

Seller ID: 95343

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, dark olive green cloth titled in gilt on the spine in a dust wrapper. 256 pages. Illustrated with 140 color photographic illustrations by the author, 138 line drawings & 1 map. Near fine. First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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BETH SHE'ARIM. Volume II: The Greek Inscriptions. (Volume II only)

By: Schwabe, Moshe; and Lifshitz, Baruch

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1974).: (1974).

Seller ID: 12567

ISBN: 0813507626

Condition: Fine

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1974).. (1974).. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], black cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. There is a small crease to the rear flap of the dust jacket. xvi, 230 & [1] pages plus 7 pages of black-and-white photographic illustrations. Also with black-and-white illustrations in the text. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

Published by Rutgers on behalf of The Israel Exploration Society, which published the Hebrew edition of the book, and The Institute of Arcaheology, Hebrew University. Beth She'arim was t...
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THE MORNING OF MANKIND: PREHISTORIC MAN IN EUROPE

By: Silverberg, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: (Greenwich, CT): New York Graphic Society, (1967).: (1967).

Seller ID: 12863

Condition: Fine

(Greenwich, CT): New York Graphic Society, (1967).. (1967).. Fine. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. There are 2 price-stickers on the front flap & the corners of the flap are creased. xv, [i] & 240 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

Second edition. Dust jacket present.
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THE NATIVE AMERICANS: Prehistory and Ethnology of North American Indians

By: Spencer, Robert F.; Jennings, Jesse D.; et al)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1965).: (1965).

Seller ID: 4814

Condition: Very good

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1965).. (1965).. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial brown cloth. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. xi, [ii] & 539 pages. Brown-and-white endpaper maps & black-and-white illustrations. There are some brown stains to the rear cover, else very good.
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THE ARNAPIK AND TYARA SITES: An Archaeological Study of Dorset Culture Origins. Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology Number 22

By: Taylor, William E., Jr

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Salt Lake City, UT: The Society for American Archaeology, 1968.: 1968.

Seller ID: 15124

Condition: Very good

Salt Lake City, UT: The Society for American Archaeology, 1968.. 1968.. Very good. - Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in printed brown & tan wraps. The binding is lightly rubbed with the head & tail of the spine lightly chipped. The edges of the rear wrap are slightly darkened. [ix] & 129 pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations, tables, maps & diagrams. There is a light crease across the top corner of the rear wrap & the top corners of the pages. Very good.

Published in cooperation with the National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, and issued as Americ...
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AZTECS OF MEXICO: Origin, Rise and Fall of the Aztec Nation

By: Vaillant, George C

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947.: 1947.

Seller ID: 4802

Condition: Good

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947.. 1947.. Good. - Octavo, light green cloth titled in brown on the spine with vingettes & decorations in brown, yellow and green on the front cover & spine. The book is laid into its original pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are soiled and faded along the edges. The dust jacket is chipped with a few small pieces out along the edges. 340 pages, with several pages of photographic illustrations. Good. Dust jacket present.
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ON THE THRESHOLD OF NATIVE AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. (Cover title)

By: Vaillant, George C

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1929.: 1929.

Seller ID: 16407

Condition: Fair

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1929.. 1929.. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wraps. The wraps are bumped & soiled with some creasing. Part of the surface of the bottom edge of the front wrap is rubbed away & the wrap is partially detached. There are small pieces out of the top inner corners of the wraps & the bottom corner of the rear wrap is torn & creased. Pages [530]-542. Black-and-white textual illustrations. The pages are creased with some light soiling & staining & with small pieces out of the top inner corners. There are tiny tears to the front edges ...
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AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY PIONEERING WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGIST ESTHER VAN DEMAN.

By: Van Deman, Esther Boise. (1862-1937). Leading American archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Italy/France: circa [1930s].: [1930s].

Seller ID: 95482

Condition: Very good

- Black-and-white photographic postcard, 3-1/2 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide, with a 27-word autograph note penned on the verso. Signed "Esther Van Deman". The left margin of the verso is slightly darkened. Near fine. Van Deman writes on the address side of the postcard: "A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year from my Summer Home at the foot of Monte Bianco to both of my friends of the Villa Sforza!" Monte Bianco [not Mont Blanc] is the highest mountain in western Europe and the Alps on the border between Italy and France. The photograph on the card is of mountain tops emerging ...
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ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF AFGHANISTAN: Its Fall and Survival. A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

By: van Krieken-Pieters, Juliette; editor

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Leiden [Netherlands]/Boston, MA: Brill, 2006.: 2006.

Seller ID: 23930

ISBN: 9004151826

Condition: Fine

Leiden [Netherlands]/Boston, MA: Brill, 2006.. 2006.. Fine. - Octavo, pictorial cloth. The rear cover is lightly rubbed. xxi & 412 pages plus 1-page series catalog with a section of black-and-white & color illustrations. Near fine.

A title in the series "Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Eight: Central Asia".
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MACHUPIJCHU Y EL CAMINO INKA

By: Vargas, Victor Angles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: (Lima, Peru: Printed by Industrialgrafica, 1980).: 1980).

Seller ID: 24079

Condition: Very good

(Lima, Peru: Printed by Industrialgrafica, 1980).. 1980).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are rubbed. 103 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with a folding map in red, black & white, with photographic illustrations in color and black & white & with black- and-white plans & diagrams. The pages are toned. Very good.

The text is in Spanish.
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DIE STADTMAUER VON PALMYRA. (Cover title)

By: von Gerkan, Armin

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Berytus, 1935.: 1935.

Seller ID: 15984

Condition: Good

Berytus, 1935.. 1935.. Good. - Small quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The covers are detached & are chipped, darkened & creased around the edges with a tear to the top edge of the rear wrap. Pages 25-33. Illustrated with a black-and-white folding plate [architectural plan]. The page corners are bumped & their edges are darkened with some light creasing & with occasional staining. There is a horizontal crease to the wraps & to each leaf where the pamphlet has been folded. Good working copy.

Inscribed by the author on the front wrap to a...
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ESSAYS ON THE ART OF THE PHEIDIAS

By: Waldstein, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge: University Press / New York: The Century Co., 1885.: 1885.

Seller ID: 20348

Condition: Good

Cambridge: University Press / New York: The Century Co., 1885.. 1885.. Good. - Quarto, light olive cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & the spine. The top edge is gilt. The corners and the head & tail of the spine are chipped and worn. There is some soiling and staining to the covers. 431 pages, with 15 plates and full-page & textual illustrations. The binding is cracked opposite the half-title and there is some scattered foxing throughout. Good.

First edition. First Edition.
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HERCULANEUM / PAST PRESENT & FUTURE

By: Waldstein, Charles; and Shoobridge, Leonard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1908.: 1908.

Seller ID: 16800

Condition: Good

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1908.. 1908.. Good. - Quarto, black cloth titled in gilt on the spine with an image of a classical statue stamped in gilt on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The binding is rubbed & bumped. The head & tail of the spine are chipped with small pieces out. There is a 2-inch tear to the top of the front joint with a small tear to the cloth of the adjacent corner of the front cover. xxii & 324 pages. The endpapers are darkened. There is soiling to the prelims & occasional light foxing, staining & soiling in the remainder of the book. 11 color plates & heliog...
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NISHAPUR: Pottery of the Early Islamic Period

By: Wilkinson, Charles K

Price: $125.00

Publisher: [New York]: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa [1970].: [1970].

Seller ID: 25752

Condition: Very good

[New York]: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa [1970].. [1970].. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/2 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], brown cloth titled in silver with a device in silver on the front cover in a dust wrapper. The corners of the covers are slightly rubbed. The dust jacket is chipped with a tear to the top edge of its front panel & a short tear to its bottom edge. The top edges of the dust jacket flaps are darkened & there are several crossed-out red ink prices on the front flap. xlii & 374 pages. 9 pages of color illustrations & profuse photographic illustrations & di...
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Category: Archaeology