Search Results: History -- Ancient from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1992. Reprint. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for the Mediterranean, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus valley and China. No damage, to the book or its binding, and the pasted on photograph on the front panel shows no rubbing. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Ancient; History -- China; History -- Egypt; ISBN: 0705409708. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409704. Inventory No: 0277719. . 9780705409704

Cassell & Co, London, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 680 g.; V, 6-192 pages, introduction by author, bibliography, index and acknowledgements. The text is illustrated with copious colour photographs and the occasional map. Colour photographic covers with green, white and yellow titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. The book has attached fold over flaps. A book based on a six part television series also called "The Celts", and in which "The book explores origins and development of the Celtic peoples and follows their movement from central European origins to the traditionally accepted Celtic lands of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany and Galiicia. It tells the story of their culture and heyday, defeats by forces such as the Romans, adoption of Christianity and of the Celtic church. It tells also of the later Diaspora to all parts of the world and the spread of… Read More

Readers Union/Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. 685 g.; V, 6 - 264 pages, with a section of 48 pages of black-and-white photographs at the rear of the book, list of illustrations/figures and maps, preface by author, notes on the plates and index. The text is illustrated with the aforementioned photographs, along with 65 black-and-white figures within the text and 3 maps. Green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt embossed logo of Thames and Hudson on the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Green coloured tint to the top text block edge. Rubbing to the lower book edges and fading to the backstrip edges. Foxing to the top text block edge, panels, and light foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book. Illustrated dustwrappers with light blue coloured background and dark blue titles to the front panel and backstrip. Chipping to the top dustwrapper edge and there is quite significant… Read More

British Museum Press, London, 1998. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 900 g.; (5), 6-224 pages, preface by authors, acknowledgements, further reading, index and illustration acknowledgements. The text is illustrated with copious colour photographs throughout. Colour photographic cover with white titles to the front panel and black titles to the backstrip. A little creasing to the book corners and a reading creasing to the backstrip. Rubbing to the book panels. A book that was published in conjunction with a television series dealing with the ancient civilisation of the Egyptians. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Film, Radio & Television; History -- Ancient; History -- Egypt; ISBN: 0714119113. ISBN/EAN: 9780714119113. Inventory No: 0111382. . 9780714119113

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for Greece Rome India and China from 400 BC through to A.D. 200. No damage to the padded imitation leather cover, or the picture on the front cover, no annotations. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Ancient; History -- China; History -- India; ISBN: 0705409732. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409735. Inventory No: 0280605. . 9780705409735

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for Greece Rome India and China from 400 BC through to A.D. 200. Previous owner's name on the front paste down and the back of the front free end page. No other damage, to the book or its binding, and the pasted on photograph on the front panel shows no rubbing. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Ancient; History -- China; History -- India; ISBN: 0705409732. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409735. Inventory No: 0233851. . 9780705409735

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for Greece Rome India and China from 400 BC through to A.D. 200. a clean copy showing no damage. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Ancient; History -- China; History -- India; ISBN: 0705409732. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409735. Inventory No: 0238903. . 9780705409735

FEP, Italy, No date. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Mario Pirone -- Photographer. 48 pages. The book is illustrated with numerous coloured and black and white photographs taken by Mario Pirone. Photographic covers, again, images from Pompeii with red and white writing on the front panel. Scuffing and creasing to the book corners and there is a little rubbing to the book edges. The laminate of the book has become somewhat dull and scuffed. Some handling marks to the internal pages. In this book are some of the fabulous erotic images of wall paintings, statuary and artifacts from the doomed city of Pompeii. The collection was hidden for many years, secreted in a cabinet in the Museum of Naples. In this fascinating book we can see the kinds of images that were common place for the citizens of ancient Pompeii, the obsessive depiction of the phallus, to ward off the 'evil-eye', the decoration of walls, ceramics and… Read More

Souvenir Press, London, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 600 g.; VI, 216 pp, bibliography general index and index of names. Illustrated dustwrapper photographs and diagrams. This book marks the culmination of arduous world wide expedition taking the author 76,000 miles through the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Everywhere he went startling evidence emerged to bolster his main contention that long ago planet Earth hosted extra terrestrial beings. The top right hand corner of the rear panel is slightly creased, there is no damage otherwise to detail. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; History -- Ancient; Cosmology; America; ISBN: 0285620878. ISBN/EAN: 9780285620872. Inventory No: 0274205. . 9780285620872

Oxford University Press, New York, 1978. Fourth Printing. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 1.4 kg.; (6), VII-XVII, (3), 3-742, (8) pages, preface to this edition and the second edition by author, list of plates, list of maps, list of tables, general bibliography and index. Map illustrated endpapers, both different, the front endpaper: -- showing ancient Greece and Italy, the rear endpaper: -- showing the Roman Empire at the time of Trajan A.D. 98-117 stop the text is illustrated with 32 black-and-white plates, 20 maps and 10 tables within the text. Blue coloured boards with dark blue and yellow coloured embossed titles to the front panel and backstrip stop a little bumping to the lower text block edges and rubbing to the lower book edges. Light age toning of the text block edge. Plain text dustwrapper with green and blue coloured background with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Chipping to the front dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. A… Read More

Random House, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 535 g.; VIII, 246 pages, last three pages blank, intentionally, notes, bibliography, acknowledgements and index. Illustrated frontispiece, showing Ernst Stromers' drawings of his Egyptian dinosaurs, a map of Egypt, and a section of eight pages of black-and-white photographs and illustrations. 1/4 speckled loan that coloured backstrip with metallic copper titles. 3/4 bone coloured boards. A hint of rubbing to the book corners. Illustrated /photographic dustwrapper, showing Bahariya Oasis and superimposed over the photograph is an illustration of one of the dinosaurs discovered there, with black and brown titles to the front panel and backstrip. A hint of ruffling to the dustwrapper edges. There is a removable sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel stating " A Companion Edition to the A & E Documentary ". In 1911 a young German… Read More

Allen Lane, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 545 g.; VIII, 248 pages, last two pages blank, list of illustrations, and index. Map Illustrated endpapers, showing St Paul's journeys throughout his life. The text is illustrated with 12 pages of black-and-white photography between page 120 and 121. Orange/red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Mine are rubbing to the book corners and to the backstrip corners. Browning to the text block edges and age toning to the internal text. Colour photographic dustwrapper (wraparound), showing reproduction of a fresco from the first century C.E. from Boscoreale (near Pompeii) showing a coastal scene, with purple and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and chipping to the top dustwrapper corners and to the lower backstrip edge. Some fading to the backstrip. Like Browning to the fold over panels. " Paul of Tarsus (St Paul) was a Jew by birth but a Roman by… Read More

Book Club, London, 1980. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. 600 g.; 318 pages, list of figures, list of plates, acknowledgements, introduction by the author, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photography between pages 160 and 161, numerous maps and black-and-white figures within the text, throughout the text. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. The edges are rubbed and there is light age toning to the text block edges and dust marks to the top text block edge. Colour photographic dustwrapper with yellow and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. There is a tear, 1.25 " to the top left-hand corner of the dustwrapper. A small history of the occupation of Europe from approximately one million years B.C.E. to the birth of Christ.… Read More

Time Life, Amsterdam, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 176 pages, indexed, and includes a bibliography, and a chronology of major events for Persia, Greece, Europe and Asia from 600 BC through to 400 BC Previous owner's name on the front paste down and the back of the front free end page. No other damage, to the book or its binding, and the pasted on photograph on the front panel shows no rubbing. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Greek; History -- Ancient; History -- China; Persia. ISBN: 0705409724. ISBN/EAN: 9780705409728. Inventory No: 0233852. . 9780705409728