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Philosophy 017f Follon, J. (Jacques) and J. J. McEvoy. Actualité de la pensée médiévale: recueil d'articles. édités par J. Follon et J. McEvoy. (Series: Philosophes médiévaux; tome 31). Louvain-la-Neuve [Belgique]: Editions de l'Institut supérieur de philosophie; Louvain; Paris: Editions Peeters, 1994, vi, 360 pages, illus, bib, index. Paperbound. Very good. $35.00 Box A 101
Notes: Collection of articles presented at a day of studies organized on April 29, 1992 by the Centre de Wulf-Mansion of the Université catholique de Louvain on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Institut d'études Médiévales; also included are theses presented by doctoral scholars at the Centre de Wulf-Mansion.

Ancient world 302 The Aegean and the Orient in the second millennium: proceedings of the 50th anniversary symposium, Cincinnati, 18-20 April 1997. Edited by Eric H Cline and Diane Harris-Cline.Liège, Belgique: Université de Liège, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de la Grèce antique; Austin, Texas: University of Texas at Austin, Program in Aegean scripts and prehistory, 1998, xxvii, 363 p., 33 p. of plates, illus. Large, heavy volume, good quality paper, good to very good condition, very slight bow in cover due to the weight of the page block. $65.00
1-3. First expansion of Aegean commerce in the Middle Bronze Age; 4-7. Second phase of Aegean relations with the East in the late Bronze I-II periods; 8-10. Late Helladic III commerce and its effect upon the art of the Near East;11-12. The Near East and the Aegean in the late Bronze Age, Pt. I; 13-15. The Near East and the Aegean in the late Bronze Age, Pt. II; 16-18. Iconography, trade, and the sea;19. Keynote address; 20-23. Influences East and… Read More

Persia aqIfl Floor, Willem. Agriculture in Qajar Iran. Washington, DC : Mage Publishers, 2003., 692 page: illustrations, bib, index, Originally published in paperback, rebound in brown library buckram, gilt lettering on spine. A friendly inscription from Floor to a bibliophile/librarian who often helped him in tracking down difficult to locate sources. Original paper wrappers bound in. Like new copy.
Summary:
Willem Floor has compiled an all-encompassing analysis of nineteenth-century Iranian agriculture based on extensive research into previously untapped Persian and European archives. His investigation covers farming methods like irrigation and seeding, the raising of livestock, and the range of crops cultivated, from wheat, barley, and rice, to the more notorious cash crops of tobacco and opium. Floor also delves into methods of forestry and fishing, subjects about which very little is known and even less has been written, until now. Agriculture in Qajar Iran traces the commercialisation of Iranian… Read More

Ancient world 1461 Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten and Nefertiti. [Catalog of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences]. New York: Brooklyn Museum in association with the Viking Press, 1973, 231p, bib, index, illus. (part col.). Good copy in dust jacket. $13.50

Description: Akkadian bfac BOHL, Franz M. Th. Akkadian Chrestomathy, Volume I: Selected Cuneiform Texts. With assistance of Madelon L. Verstunen, copyist. Leiden, Holland: Nederlandsch Archaeologisch-Philologisch Insitituut, 1947. Paperback. Good, solid condition. There is some minor fraying to spine which has been repaired. Larger volume about 10"x 12". Paperback. Book Condition: Good. Series: Nederlandsch Archaeologisch-Philologisch Insitituut, I checked but could find no reference to a second volume.

Ancient world 763Internationales Bonner Alexanderkolloquium (1996). Alexander der Grosse: eine Welteroberung und ihr Hintergrund: Vorträge des Internationalen Bonner Alexanderkolloquiums, 19.-21.12.1996. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Will. [Antiquitas. Reihe 1, Abhandlungen zur alten Geschichte ; Bd. 46] Bonn: R. Habelt, 1998, 224 p., 4 leaves of plates: ill. Each of the nine essays has its own footnotes. Nice copy, clean, tight, no marks. $25.00

Persia kehp Kaempfer, Engelbert, 1651-1716. Am Hofe des persischen Großkönigs 1684 – 1685. Herausgegeben von Walter Hinz. Tübingen Basel: Erdmann, 1977, 283 pages, black and white illustrations. Very good in dust jacket. $14.50 Box B5

Ancient world 944O'Callaghan, Roger Timothy, 1912- Aram Naharaim; a contribution to the history of Upper Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C. With an appendix on Indo-Aryan names [from Mitanni, Nuzu and Syro-Palestinian documents] by P.-E. Dumont. (Analecta orientalia; commentationes scientificae de rebus Orientis antiqui, 26). Roma: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1948, xv, 164 p. index, bib, 38 plates (incl. plans) 3 fold. col. maps. Paperbound. Larger volume, clean, tight no marks. Very good. $45.00

Ancient world 340 National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Seminar (2004: Duke University) Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity: papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University. (Series:Duke Judaic studies series; v. 3). Edited by Eric M. Meyers and Paul V.M. Flesher. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2010, xx, 300p, bib, index. New in dust jacket. $20.00
Contents:Introduction -- Awakening sleeping texts -- Reconsidering the letter of Mara Bar Serapion / David Rensberger -- "Transgressive": meaning and implications of 'wl' in Jewish Syriac text and translation / Sigrid Peterson -- The composition of the Qenneshråe fragment / Michael Penn -- A note on an Aramaic date formula found at Nabratein and Zoar / Eric M. Meyers -- When? "After the destruction of the temple" / Paul V.M. Flesher -- The details of language -- The function of the active participle in the Aramaic of Daniel / Tarsee Li -- Tracing the history of a legal term of… Read More

Ancient world 1409Wordsworth, Christopher, 1807-1885. Athens and Attica: journal of a residence there. London: John Murray, 1836,1 p. leaf, vii, [1], [xi]-xii, 285 p. front., plates fold. map, fold. plan, fold. facsim. Ex-library copy with usual marks. The most prominent defect is the backstrip has been repaired and missing parts. Marbled boards. The page block is tight and clean with usual aging. Half-title present, but bound without the publisher's ads if it ever had one? Because of the ex-library treatment, I will call it acceptable.
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An interesting and detailed description of the Attic plain, and the first work of travel by Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885), who earned a reputation for his classical studies and translations and his deciphering of graffiti and inscriptions. He is credited with discovering the oracle of Zenus at Dodona. Wordsworth was an English bishop and nephew of the poet,William Wordsworth. The plates are engraved… Read More

Ancient world 501. (Babylon) ONA Box 18 Hall closet Borger, Rykle (Riekele), 1929- Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke. 2, Neubearbeitete Auflage. Twovolumes: 1. Die Texte in Umschrift -- 2. Elemente der Grammatik und der Schrift. Glossar. Die Texte in Keilschrift. (Analecta Orientalia, 54) Nachdruck. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1994, xi, 350 p. Paperback. This set was originally published in 1979. Fine copies, clean, tight, no marks. Larger format volumes. Very scarce. $120.00

Religion 113fek Fowden, Elizabeth Key. The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, xix, 227 pages: illustrations, maps, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $25.00 Box A 113
Contents: 1. Portraits of a Martyr -- The Passio of SS. Sergius and Bacchus -- History in the Passio: The Emperor -- The Hagiographic Milieu -- Alexander of Hierapolis and the Early Cult of S. Sergius -- Images of S. Sergius -- 2. Martyr Cult on the Frontier: The Case of Mayperqat -- Relics and Defense -- At the World's Center -- The Ecumenical City of Martyrs -- The Iranian Viewpoint -- 3. Rusafa -- The Frontier Zone -- A Place of Convergence -- The Fortress-Shrine -- Pilgrimage to Rusafa -- 4. The Spread of the Sergius Cult in Syria and Mesopotamia -- The Hawran -- West of the Steppe -- Northern Syria and Mesopotamia -- The Iranian Empire -- 5. Frontier Shrine and Frontier Saint -- Justinian, Theodora, and S. Sergius -- Iranian Interest in S. Sergius -- The Ghassanid… Read More

Ancient world 341Arav, Rami and Richard A Freund (eds). Bethsaida: a city by the North shore of the Sea of Galilee. Volume One: Bethsaida excavations project. Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1995, xxi, 337p, bib, index, illus. The book is almost like new except that there are some very faint spots on top paper edge (caused by mist). $18.50

Ancient world 342 Arav, Rami and Richard A Freund (eds). Bethsaida: a city by the North shore of the Sea of Galilee. Volume Two: Bethsaida excavations project. Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 1999, xx, 463p, bib, index, illus. There is also a CD-ROM of maps 1-10 in sealed plastic wrappers. The book is almost like new except that there are some very faint spots on top paper edge (caused by mist). $18.50

Ancient world 411 Beyond Babylon: art, trade, and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C. Edited by Joan Aruz, Kim Benzel, and Jean M. Evans. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, xxiii, 524p, bib, index, illus. (chiefly colored.), maps. New in dust jacket. Measures 9 ½" x 12", 1 ½", large and heavy volume, printed on high quality paper. $32.50 Needs extra postage

Iran gabe Golschani, Abdolkarim. Bildungs- und Erziehungswesen Persiens im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. (Series: Hamburger philologische Studien). Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1969, ii, 151 pages, illus, bib, index. Originally issued in paperback but has been bound in red library buckram cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Original wrappers bound into the hardcover. Like new, the text and the binding. $35.00 Box B2

RL 1702 (Bultmann, Rudolf.) Marlé, René. Bultmann et l'interprétation du Nouveau Testament. Paris: Aubier,1956, 205 pages, bib. Paperback. A good copy although the paper at the top of the spine has peeled back a bit. There is penciling as underlining and marginal notes in a neat hand in English. $15.00

Ancient world 1139Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch. Caravan cities. Translated by David and Tamara Talbot Rice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932, xiv, 232 p. illus. (incl. map) xxxv pl. on 23 l., plans Impressions of my journey to Syria, Arabia, and Palestine."--Pref./ Bibliography: p. [220]-226. The book has been rebound in sturdy buckram, clean and tight copy no marks. The photographic plates at the end are out of order and one of them should actually be facing page 121. One of the leaves of plates has a small tear in the margin, thought I saw another small tear on one of the text pages in the margin. Good, solid copy. $45.00

Ancient world 479 Chubb, Mary. City in the sand. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957, 209p, photos. This is a good, tight clean copy although there is some foxing on the paper edges and every so often on the margins. Chubb's journal of her work in Mesopotamian archaeology. $8.50

Ancient world 1152 Saggs, H. W. F. Civilization before Greece and Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989, 322 p., [16] p. of plates, illus, notes, bib, index. Map on lining papers. Very minor damp spotting to top paper edge, good, clean, tight copy, no marks in dust jacket. An introduction to the early civilizations of the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. Contents: Pushing back the frontiers; City-states and kingdoms; Pyramids and ziggurats; Writing; Education; Living in cities; Trade; Law; The brotherhood of nations; Natural resources; Mathematics and astronomy; Medicine; Ancient religion. $8.50