European / 1. Prehistoric from LEFT COAST BOOKS

London: Phoenix House, 1957. Cloth, 111 pages, [39] pages of plates, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, soiling. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. xii, 673 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field… Read more about this item

New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010. 282 pages; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First thus. "The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped… Read more about this item

London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Cloth, xiv, 225 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Plato's legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the most absurd lie in literature. Partially dismissed because of the philosopher's eclipsing reputation in the twentieth century in conjunction with Nazi adoption of the Atlantis allegory,… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993. xii, 210 pages, illustrations, maps, plates; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. CONTENTS: The Legends; The People; History; The Method; Others; First Thoughts; The Machine; The Response; Eclipses; The Numbers Game; Last Thought.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Shorewood Publishers; Drawings of the Masters Series, 1965. Cloth, 141 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Slipcase with moderate shelfwear. Drawings: Aurignacian period; Exekias; Euphronios; Peithinos; Sosias; Klitias and Ergotimos; Lydos; Douris; Aristophanes and Erginos; Hieron and Makron; Roman; Etruscan; Graeco-Roman; Irish Celtic; Southern Italian; Italian; Villard de Honnecourt;… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1968. Cloth, 260 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Panorama of World Art Series. First published under title: Europaische Vorzeit. Translated from the German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1983. xiv, 266 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Introduction; Stones; Feminism and prehistory; The forms of time: earth and sky, words and numbers; Time and again: maps and places and journeys; Ritual; Homes and graves and gardens.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Basic Books; HarperCollins, 1994. xvi, 171 pages; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "'The name Leakey is synonymous with the study of human origins,' wrote The New York Times. The renowned family of paleontologists - Louis Leakey, Mary Leakey, and their son Richard Leakey - has vastly expanded our understanding of human evolution. The Origin… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion Books; Talk Miramax, 2000. 416 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps, photographs, portraits (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

San Francisco and New York: HarperSanFrancisco; American Museum of Natural History, 1993. Cloth, 239 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 32 cm. Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 1, Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pictorial boards, xv, 443 pages, illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Cambridge World Archaeology Series. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "Dr Whittle reviews the latest archaeological evidence on Neolithic Europe from 7000 to 2500 BC. Describing important areas, sites and problems, he addresses the major themes that have engaged the attention of scholars: the transition… Read more about this item

Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990. 44 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, February 22 to April 8 and the Menil Collection, Houston, April 27 to August 26, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. Cloth, 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, 1993. 24 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Prehistoric and Norse settlement in Scotland.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1975. 160 pages, illustrations (33 color); 29 cm. Exhibition held in 1975 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Donor: Professor Edward A. Allworth Central… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. Cloth, viii, 211 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Publicity photo of the author laid in. CONTENTS: Painted caves of France; Green sickness; Cave paintings of Spain; Bison: passport to Spain; Setback; Life amid the rock… Read more about this item

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. Archaeoastronomy.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xiv, 365 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled, age toning. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Standing proudly on a hill near Hisarlik, Turkey, in 1868, Heinrich Schliemann claimed that beneath his feet lay the ancient city of Troy, immortalized by… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated with 117 Illustrations, 24 in Colour. "Discusses the religion of the ancient Celts and shows burial chambers, standing stones, cromlechs, and sacred wells in Ireland." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.