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An Inventory Of the Historical Monuments In the City Of Cambridge
by Monuments, Royal Commission On Historical
Architektur Kleinasiens, von ihren anfangen bis zum ende der hethitischen zeit
by Naumann, Rudolf
Tubingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1955. Hardcover. XII, 439p., profulely illustrated with expert sketches both descriptive and explanatory, plus artist's reconstructions (how such & such gate may have looked, &c). Hardbound in openweave blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Nice condition: the book itself has a short bump to tail-rim, the only detraction from crisp squareness, top edge mildly dust-soiled, gilt remains bright, within find a neat small ownership signature. The dj wasn't so...
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£24.39
Antique Rugs from the Near East. Third revised edition with contributions by Ernst Kuhnel. Translated by R.M. Riefstahl
by Bode, Wilhelm
New York: E. Weyhe, 1922. Hardcover. 65p. followed by 95 "figures", i.e. plates, usually one fullpage figure each, one color image set as the frontispiece, the b&w reproduced clearly (at best) accompanied by a few diagrammatic images. The color frontis is quite vivid. Hardbound in grey papered boards with a grey cloth backstrip (spine-titled in legible white) and a simple cover label. All paperstock within, whether matte (text) or glazed, is alkaline, while the boards are a bit toned. This is a very...
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£20.32
The Bronze Age Cemetary at Gibeon.
by Pritchard, James B
(Philadelphia) The University Museum, 1963., 1963. 4to. ix, 181 pp. Illustrated with 100 B & W figures. Maps included. Original illustrated blue wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New.
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£17.48
Dans La Forêt Sans Chemins; Légendes Héroiques et Sacrées De l'Inde Antique
by Talva, Jean
Paris: Librairie de France, F. Sant Andrea Editeur, 1929. 376p., sewn textblock in 7.5x5.5 inch tan wraps titled in two colors, text in French, signatures neatly opened throughout, personally inscribed and signed by the author; a handsome little book in very good condition.
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£16.26
Manche and Peten; The Hazards of Itza Deceit and Barbarity. Translated by Charles P. Bowditch and Guillermo Rivera, With Additional Comments by Adela C. Breton. Edited and With Notes by Frank E. Comparato
by Cano, Fray Agustin. Frank E. Comparato, editor
Culver City CA: Labyrinthos, 1984. Pamphlet. vi, 26p., illustrated with three facsimiles, two of which maps including a central double-spread , an aerial view dated to 1735. Softbound, a large pamphlet stapled into 11x8.5 inch yellow wraps, an entirely sound, clean and unmarked copy.
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£9.75
The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
by Neer, Richard
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Hardcover. xiv, 262p., numerous b&w plates and vignettes, and a few images in colorphoto; hardbound in 11.5x8.5 inch black cloth boards lettered in silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket. An as-new copy, entirely sound, square, clean and unmarked.
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£28.45
Gothic, Renaissance and Later Bronzes Other Works of Art and Tapestries; Public Auction, Friday, November 1, 1974 at 2.00 P.M., New York
by Sotheby, Parke Bernet, Inc
New York: Sotheby, Parke Bernet, Inc, 1974. Softcover. Fine in white wraps with color photo on cover.. Square 8vo. 127 lots. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos throughout.
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£24.39
Sotheby's Catalogue of Sale 18 June 2002: The Oracles of Leo the Wise and the Pontifical of Ferry De Clugny
by Sotheby's
London: Sotheby's, 2002. Softcover. Fine in color pictorial wraps.. 4to. 82 pp.Ê 96 lots. Illustrated in color all described in detail.
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£60.97
Buyo, The Classical Dance, by Masakatsu Gunji; translated by Don Kenny with an introduction by James R. Brandon. A Weatherhill Book
by Gunji, Masakatsu. James R. Brandon, prefatory material
New York / Tokyo: Weatherhill / Tankosha, 1970. Hardcover. vii, 207p., profusely illustrated in both b&w (reproduced in rotogravure) and colorphoto (very clear). Hardbound first American edition in 8.5x6 inch openweave raw linen boards decorated in gilt and blind, and enclosed in its glossy blue dust jacket. As new; obtained from a collector who had purchased multiple copies when issued. Perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Performing arts of Japan: III.
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£9.75
DAS BERLINER ZEUGHAUS: VOM ARSENAL ZUM MUSEUM
by Müller, Heinrich
Berlin: Deutsches Historisches Museum, 1994. 4to, original pictorial card covers. 319, (1) pages; illustrated, some in color.
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£28.45
Middle Classic Mesoamerica: A.D. 400-700
by Pasztory, Esther, editor
New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Hardcover. x, 197p., illustrated with line maps, diagrams, exhibit and site vignettes, charts; first edition oblong cloth boards in dust jacket; 8.7x11.5 inches. Jacket a bit worn, casing and text entirely sound and clean, a very good copy.
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£12.19
Crowning glory: silver Torah ornaments of the Jewish Museum,New York
by Grafman, Rafi; edited by Vivian B. Mann
New York: The Jewish Museum /David R. Godine, 1996. xv+398p., acknowledgements, using the catalogue, indexes, bibliography, b&w and color photos. A catalogiue of Torah scroll ornaments illustrated with over eight hundred duotone and thirty-three color plates. First edition in original cloth and illustrated dj. Very good.
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£12.19
The ethics of buddhism. Edited with a new preface by o. H. de A. Wijesekera, professor in sanskrit at the University of Ceylon
by Tachibana, S., professor of Pali and primitive buddhism at the Komazawa-Daigaku, Tokyo
Colombo: The Bauddha Sahitya Sabha (by arrangement with OUP), 1961. xii, 215p., publisher's ad leaf, first issue of this [third] edition, gilt-titled clothbacked printed boards; casing is slightly rolled and cloth spine is heavily "silverfished" (i.e., find scattered losses of sizing to spine panel), faint soil to cover, binder's paste-creep has browned the free endsheets. An else sound clean copy. "The present edition does not make any noticeable changes in the text apart from supplying a number of...
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£13.82
ROMAN MOLD-BLOWN GLASS: THE FIRST THROUGH SIXTH CENTURIES
by Stern, E. Marianne
Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1995. Large 4to, original burgundy blind-stamped cloth, gilt; jacket. 338 pages; illustrated, some in color; folding chart; folding map. Fine.
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£93.48
Decimal Tables for the Reduction of Hindu Dates, from the Data of the Surya-Siddhanta
by van Wijk, W.E
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1938. Paperback. vii, 33p. (text and tables, one folding) plus two more very large folded tables bound in at back. An elegant production on fine alkaline paperstock, rubricated cover and title page, complex handset presswork, softbound in 11x7 inch buff wraps in very good condition pace a few mild corner-tip turnings (no sharp creasing) and a couple of flecks of soil. Otherwise clean, and quite sound and unmarked.
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£20.32
Supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Number 9, July-September 1948. Discoveries at Karatepe - A Phoenician Royal Inscription from Cilicia
by Obermann, Julian
Baltimore: the journal, 1948. Paperback. 49p., plus VII plates on glazed inserted stock, softbound in 9x6 inch plain printed buff wraps. In-text copy is shown in "square Hebrew" rather than the cuneiform, the cuneiform photocopied and diagrammed in the terminal plates section. A fine copy, pace a faint misfolding to the back cover. "This Supplement Issued with Volume 68, number 3 of the Journal
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£12.19
Das Kabukitheater; Kulturgeschichte der Anfange
by Ortolani, Benito
Tokyo: Sofia University Press, 1964. Hardcover. 169p., illustrated with many b&w production stills and historical images, a lavishly-bound hardback in 10x7 inch boards covered in green brocade and titled in gilt on a red label, provided with textured tissue endpapers and enclosed in the glossy dust jacket, which is further enclosed in a matte obi sash bearing text and figures. Please note, the book is entirely in the German language with no translation. Book itself is immaculate, the dust jacket...
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PERGAMENISCHE FORSCHUNGEN. BAND I. PERGAMON GESAMMELTE AUFSÄTZE
by Boehringer, Erich (editor)
Berlin: Deutsches archäologisches Institut, 1972. Large 4to, original red cloth, gilt. xxxi, (1), 222 pages; folding maps; illustrated. Addenda laid in. Fine.
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£65.84
Aanwinsten van de Archaeologische Collectie van het Bataviaasch Genootschap. 4 een Javaansch-Buddhistisch Guru-Beeld
by Moens, J.L
Weltevreden [Dutch East Indies]: Albrecht & Co, 1922. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A very good copy.. [184]-193 pp. 4to. From Oudheidkundig verslag 1922.
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£9.75
Beyond Babylon - Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
by Aruz, Joan, Kim Benzel, and Jean M. Evans, editors
New York / New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2008. Hardcover. xxiii, 524p., a splendid large book hardbound in 12.5x9.5 inch blood-orange openweave cloth boards lettered gilt and enclosed in the strong dust jacket. Faintest signs of any handling or age, entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Some images are of objets d'art retrieved from ancient shipwrecks.
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£60.97
![The Acropolis, A New Guide of the Monuments and Museum. With a folded colour map of the monuments [subtitle from cover text]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/970/091/1548091970.0.b.jpg)
The Acropolis, A New Guide of the Monuments and Museum. With a folded colour map of the monuments [subtitle from cover text]
by Papathanassopoulos, Dr. G., archaeologist, former director of the Acropolis
Athens Greece: Krene Editions, 1991. Paperback. 120p., profuse color illustrations both photographic and diagrammatic (floorplans, elevations and pictorials), softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color cardstock wraps. Book itself has a mildly edgeworn front cover, blank back cover a little rubbed, but the folded map (more of a 3-D reconstruction) is fine. Presentable copy of a Library of Congress Duplicate with LC's rubberstamp to half-title. Otherwise unmarked, and entirely sound and clean.
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£12.19
Ancient Glass At the Newark Museum From the Eugene Schaefer Collection of Antiquities.
by Auth, Susan H
Newark: Newark Museum, 1976., 1976. 4to. 235 pp. Profusely illustrated with B & W and color photographs. Printed on coated paper. Original photographic boards as issued w/o DJ. Light spinal wear else tight, near fine.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.
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£32.52
L'Asie Ancienne Centrale et Sud-Orientale d'apres Ptolemee. Avec 23 cartes en noir et 1 en couleur
by Berthelot, Andre
Paris: Payot, 1930. Hardcover. 426p., maps as called for, all fold out, all presswork clear, none damaged save for a half-inch tear at the stub of the color item stubbed-in at rear, this a really superb map with several onlay colors. Book, or this exemplar anyway, originated as a paperback and was hardbound (expertly) in Hong Kong by one Sam Ying, his odd seller's fiche on the pastedown. Unfortunately, Sam left out the printed wraps, otherwise we have no objections. Sound copy, with a little abrasion...
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Nordamerika II. Kleinere Sammlungen. Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel. Band XIII.
by Kenna, Victor E. G. und Eberhard Thomas
Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1974., 1974. 4to. xv, 176 pp. Profusely illustrated. Printed on coated paper. Original claret-colored cloth binding. Text in German. This is a tight, fine book.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine.
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£162.58
Pompeji in seinen Gebäuden, Alterthümern und Kunstwerken.
by Overbeck, J
Leipzig, Engelmann Verlag, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Leipzig, Engelmann Verlag, 1856. First edition. Good. Leipzig, Wilhelm Verlag von Engelmann, 1856, ****NOTE: German text.**** Hardcover, in Good condition. Beautiful book, printed covers and spine, maps in side front and rear cover, rear map detached from cover, front map has 3 inch tear, cover has light stain. about 300 woodcuts, 438 pp. Binding tight, detached from covers. Pages are clean and bright with light tanning....
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£101.61
