Search Results: ANCIENT HISTORY from Pistil Books Online

Doubleday Anchor, 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Book is in excellent condition with a bit of edge wear and faded spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. 243 pages, Contents include: Greco-egyptian period, Pharos, Rhakotis, Canopus, Three Ptolemies, art, philosophy, science, Rule of Rome, Gnosticism, Arianism, Monophysism, Monothelism, Islam, Mohammed Ali, St. Saba, Rue Rosett, Banco di Roma, Abou el Abbas mosque, etc. Copyright 2011 Pistil Books

Dover, 2002. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 190 pages with a great many b&w illustrations. Sections on North Africa, Middle East, clothing, costume, dress, egyptian, royalty, priets, robes, military, manual worker, Persia Mesopotamia style, cut, bgarment, apparel, fashion, history,

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book shows light wear to covers only: slight edge wear, small stain at lower front cover. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 201 pages with another 87 images over the last section of the book, mostly b&w photos, some maps, drawings. Contents include: Mycenae and her walls, The palace and the houses of the citadel, Houses and graves , Grave circle A, Grave circle B and the new shaft graves.

Dover, 2003. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. With sections on Aegean Costume, Doric Ionic, Greek Roman Armor, Roman Toga, Tunica, Apparel, Pallium, Cloak, Eastern Orthodox Church, Clothing, Hairressing, Jewelry, etc.

New American Library (Mentor), 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers, tiny bit of edge wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 269 pages, heavily illustrated throghout. Contents include: Origin of the Nile, stone age Africa, sudan, Early farming and herding, prdynastic, egypt, Classical egypt, Ptahhotep, Imperial Egypt, Pan-Grave people, Hyksos Nubian temples, King Ramses, Abu Simbel, Temple of Philae, Rulers of Kush, etc.

N Y: Oxford University Press, 2016. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to dust jacket. Slight soiling to side page ends. 438 pages.

N Y: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 128 pages.

Jerusalem: Reubeni Foundation, 1972. Oversize Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. XL. Large format: 9 3/4""w x 13""h. Edge wear and tears to dust jackets. Age-toned paper, loosely bound in a ""newspaper"" format. Three volume set: Volume One, In the Days of the Bible, From Abraham to Ezra, 1726-444 BCE [Third Edition, 1968]. Volume Two, Second Temple/Rise of Christianity, From the Maccabees to Spanish Jewry's Golden Age, 165 BCE - 1038 CE [Third Edition, 1968]. Volume Three, The Dawn of Redemption, From the Crusades to Herzl's Vision of the Jewish State, 1099-1897 [First Edition, 1972]. ""Using the vehicle of modern journalism, the publishers and editors of Chronicles have endeavored to draw, in vibrant, living terms, a composite picture of the life of our forefathers as they lived it, in all its drama and all its simplicity, its joys and its tragedies, its hope and disappointments.""

Jerusalem: Reubeni Foundation, 1972. Oversize Hardback. Very Good/Good. XL. Large format: 9 3/4""w x 13""h. Edge wear and tears to dust jackets. Age-toned paper, loosely bound in a ""newspaper"" format. Three volume set: Volume One, In the Days of the Bible, From Abraham to Ezra, 1726-444 BCE [Third Edition, 1968]. Volume Two, Second Temple/Rise of Christianity, From the Maccabees to Spanish Jewry's Golden Age, 165 BCE - 1038 CE [Third Edition, 1968]. Volume Three, The Dawn of Redemption, From the Crusades to Herzl's Vision of the Jewish State, 1099-1897 [First Edition, 1972]. ""Using the vehicle of modern journalism, the publishers and editors of Chronicles have endeavored to draw, in vibrant, living terms, a composite picture of the life of our forefathers as they lived it, in all its drama and all its simplicity, its joys and its tragedies, its hope and disappointments.""

Blackwell, 1992. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with price sticker residue at front, previous owner's sticker inside front cover. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears, wrapped in protective clear cover. Contents include: Prosecution of Verres, Aedile to Praetor, Exile and return, Governorship of Cilicia, Civil War, Caesar's dectatorship, Ides of March, Defeat and death.

University of Chicago, 2009. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as new also, wrapped in protective clear cover. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Contents include: Weiss and the pursuit of bodily excellence; Huizinga and the Homo ludens hypothesis, Feezell, moderation and irony, The process of becoming virtuous

MCS Inc. , 2017. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 159 pages with many color photos. Chapters include Michigan copper in the Mediterranean , Lugged axeheads of bronze age found on Isle Royale, Were the copper miners of Michigan giants? Poverty point: bronze age town & Gulf Ports on the copper trail, Were prehistoric copper oxhide ingots manufactured on the Mississippi coast near the mouth of the Mississippis river? Megalithic colony in Greenland, America's Stongehenge: a map of the Atlantic Ocean in stones, Ocean pendants, crossing teh Atlantic via the Azores, The Sillustani Necropolis in Peru, etc.

N Y: Modern Library. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to dust jacket. 956 pages. No date shown; circa 1980's.

N Y: Modern Library. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to dust jacket. 956 pages. No date shown; circa 1980's.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Trade Paperback. Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 200 pages.

Thames & Hudson, 1997. Oversize Paperback. Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 96 pages. Many photos and illustrations.

London: Allen Lane, 1975. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 318 pages. 102 plates in black and white.

Norton, 1966. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 324 pages, contents include: Wild ass, Caravans, The toilet, Hair and beard, Masculine dress, Beer and palm-wine, Locusts, Anatolia, Business at Nuzu, Murashu of Nipur, Cost of living, Seller of songs, Khorsabad, Royal chariots, Music, dancing, Myths of Zu and the dragon Labbu, Myths of Adapa and Etana, etc. etc. Very detailed.

B.T. Batsford, 1960. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners in bright orange cloth with gilt print as spine, colored upper page ends. Pretty book. Exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for long inscription from prev. owner on front end paper. Dust jacket shows edge wear, small tears, price clipped. Contents include: Homeric Greece: the Iliad, Odyssey, Archaig Greece, : herodotus, Classical Greece: Architecture, Sea fights, Battles, etc. 183 illustrations: line drawings, b&w photos, a few color plates.

Penguin, 1958. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with back cover a bit scuffed, age toned paper, faded spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. First Penguin ed. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile.