Search Results: Archaeology from Berthoff Books

Bantam Books, 1972. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 515 pages, with index, bibliography, chronological tables. Illustrated with b&w photographs of artifacts and digs on 16 double-sided plates; also a map and drawings of hieroglyphs, site layout, etc. Book originally published in German 1949, English translation by Knopf 1951. This "Second revised and substantially enlarged edition" issued by Knopf 1967, this Bantam edition 1972 of which this is the 6th printing. Mass-market paperback, wraps creased and worn, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned, a former owner's name written in big letters on fore-edge, notes by most recent former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff in front matter and on a smattering of other pages.

Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 87 pages, with index, list of illustrations. Besides the 40-some b&w illustrations (photos of artifacts and art works) on plates, there is a two-page frontispiece diagram "General Plan of the Excavations" at the site in Sicily. First English Translation stated. Series: Guide-Books to the Museums and Monuments of Italy. Text runs through page 51, followed by plates on glossy stock. Small booklet (~5-3/8" x 7-5/16", 13 x 18.5 cm), light blue wraps, spine sunned, wraps soiled, wear includes 1/2" tear at crown, foxing to edges and first plate. Main defect is that p. 64 and 65 are stuck together near top, with ~1" diameter damage to two of the plates. Pencil marks in margin of approximately 15 of the text pages.