Very nice, book, tightly bound with only a small bit of external wear to boards. Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise clean pages. NOT an ex-lib. Very crisp, untorn fold-out map of Fort Ancient at frontis. The preceding edition, Volume III, was published in 1892, but this publication took three years due to the state's involvement with the World's Fair Columbian Exposition. It's quite a good one, as it contains lengthy articles on the Ohio Company and the Scioto Purchase, the border dispute between Ohio and Michigan, an early abolitionist colony and its founder, the Underground Railroad and R... View More...
Spine has sunned and there is a one inch chip to paper over spine at crown, but otherwise this one is pristine. No names or writing. Measures 9"x11" and has 245 pages. Illustrated with black and white plates. Among the many articles are: The Pregnancy of Isis; A Bibliography of Jeroslav Cerny; Four Hieratic Ostraca of the Old Kingdom; An Early Middle Kingdom Account; A Reconsideration of the Middle Kingdom Cairo Letter; A New Wisdom Text From a Writing-Board in Oxford; and Two Monuments of the Rein of Horemheb, as well as one on the length of Horemheb's reign. Other issues available... View More...
Spine has sunned, but otherwise this one is pristine. No names or writing. Measures 9"x11" and has 192 pages plus black and white plates at back of book printed on coated paper. A sampling of article topics include: Observations of a collection of crania from the Mastabas of the Reign of Cheops at Giza; two lute players of the Amarna Era; Historical observations of the military reliefs of Abu Simbel and other Ramesside Temples in Nubia; an accounts papyrus from Thebes; and adaptation of the ancient Egyptian texts to the the temple ritual at Philae. Other issues available. View More...
Spine has sunned, but otherwise this one is pristine. No names or writing. Measures 9"x11" and has 207 pages plus black and white plates at back of book printed on coated paper. Among the many articles are: Two Old Kingdom Tombs at Giza; The Conclusion to the Testament of Ammenemes, King of Egypt; An Eighteenth-Dynasty Linen in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Egypt, Samos and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture; Ancient Egyptian Silver; and The Rev. Dr. Anthony J. Arkell. Other issues available. View More...
Very nice book. Mild sunning to spine and a couple small faint spots to cover are oinly faults. Tightly bound with no names or writing. Measures 9"x11" and has 317 pages plus black and white plates at back of book printed on coated paper. A sampling of article topics include: automated analysis of predynastic cemeteries, three monuments from Memphis in the Fitzwilliam Museum; the origin of the Blue Crown; the original version of the Royal Canon of Turin; the Rendells mummy bandages; eight funerary paintings with judgement scenes in the Swansea Welcome Museum; and gift giving in ancien... View More...
Spine has sunned faintly, but otherwise this one is pristine. No names or writing. Measures 9"x11" and has 211 pages plus black and white plates at back of book printed on coated paper. A sampling of article topics include: status symbols in the architecture of El-'Amarna; reflections on the reign of Ramesses VI; the identity of the Ramesside Queen Tyti; the camel in dynastic Egypt; and Anubis and the lunar disc; and the composition of a military work party in Roman Egypt. Other issues available. View More...
Very nice -- no sunning, no writing, no tears. Measures 9"x11" and has 300 pages plus black and white plates at back of book printed on coated paper. A sampling of article topics include: domestic shrines and the Cult of the Royal Family at El-'Amarna; remarks on the trial of Mose; a Theban tomb and its tenants; Takeloth II a king of the Theban 23rd dynasty?; an Old Kingdom expedient for anchoring inliad eyes; and Christian paintings from Tebtunis. Other issues available. View More...
Crisp as new. No names or writing. Pages and cover pristine. Measures 9"x11" and has 260 pages plus plates. Illustrated with charts and black and white plates on glossy paper at back of book. Among the many articles are: The Origin of the Pyramid Texts Found on Middle Kingdom Saqqara Coffins; Crime, Cult and Capital Punishment; Interpreting the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor; Crown Prince Djhutmose and the Royal Sons of the 18th Dynasty; The Death of Niphururiya and Is Aftermath; Hogs and Hygiene; The Temple of Apis in Memphis; The Egyptological Bibliography of Percy Edward Newberry;... View More...
Very nice clean book with no bumps to boards and no names or writing. Not often seen in this edition. A very handsome bookplate (see photo) on front pastedown indicates that it had at one time belonged to the Huntington Free Library and Reading Room, Museum of the American Indian. It also shows this on a small embossed circle on title page. No egregious library marks. Book is illustrated with wonderful drawings of artifacts as well as black and white photographs at back of text. Book is a monograph on the excavations performed in a single place in the central Peruvian highlands. Book measures ... View More...
ITEM# 7762 TOO BIG TO WALK THE NEW SCIENCE OF DINOSAURS BY BRIAN J. FORD PUB BY WILLIAM COLLINS 2018 HARD BACK 515 PGS 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 THIS BOOK GIVES A RADICAL NEW VIEW OF HOW DINOSAURS DEVELOPED AND THE WAY THE LIVED THEIR LIVES IT CHANGES EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT DINOSAURS BOOK AND DJ FINE , CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT NO MARKES BUMPS OR TEARS [NAT HIST.] View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW book. A comprehensive study of Sun Watch, one of few thoroughly excavated Fort Ancient soceties inhabiting the Middle Ohio Valley. Focus is on the development of the village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework. Illustrated with drawings and charts. 197 pages. Indexed. View More...
Crisp, beautiful book, very gently kept. No spine crease, no names or writing and pages and page edges pristine. Measures 9"x11" and printed on quality paper. Photographs at back of book in both black and wite and color, plus line drawings, for a total of 52 plates. Lengthy introduction at front. View More...
Here we have two very hard to find (especially the second volume) preliminary archaeological reports on The Lake Pleasant Project which was undertaken by the Arizona State Museum with the cooperation of the Arizona Highway Department in early 1970's. The earlier one focuses on the excavation of the Beardsley Canal Site, a colonial Hohokam village on the Agua Pria River in Central Arizona. The second does likewise but indicates the Lower Agua Pria River. Both booklets are very basic in design, but offer much information, plus photographs and drawings of the excavation and its finds. 35 pages co... View More...
Crisp, clean copy. No defect of note other than very mild sunning to spine. Measures 8-1/4"x10-3/4". Illustrated with drawings and charts. 122 pages. Series report #11. View More...
Beautiful book gently cared for. It's large with large photographs in color throughout. Book measures 9" x 12" and has 288 pages including index. Pages and page edges are white and bright and there's no spine crease and no names or writing. The only fault is a few light scratches to cover. This is an important book about Egyptian faience which was made of desert sand, gold, and semi-precious stones and is considered a magical substance. Over 200 photos pf fabulous objects from museums in the United States and Europe which contributed information as well as images toward this first interpretive... View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW book. Last copy -- slight shelfwear. Oversized. A fascinating look at Civil War material culture and battlefield archaeology. Offers archaeological fieldwork, site type diversity and theoretical perspective. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photos. 412 pages. Indexed. View More...
Very nice, clean, tightly bound book covered with clear rigid plastic cover for safekeeping. Only fault is sunning to edges of wraps and most especially to spine. Light toning to page edges. Photo illustrated. Concerns the Akkadian tablets purchased shortly after WWI by Lt. Col. J.H. Patterson of the British Army of Occupation in Iraq, which he then dontated to the museum in 1925. The tablets are of historical and anthropological interest, as they were written in a dialect of the Old Akkadian language and date back over four thousand years. With the exception of two letters and some school ta... View More...
Crisp BRAND NEW copy. Illustrated with charts, graphs, and black and white photos. Book examines developments in analysis and conservation and how to screen and prioritize large groups of excavation coins. Much information on corrosion, cleaning exacavated coins and treating silver coins with alkaline dithionite. 91 pages. TWO like copies available. View More...
Pristine inside and out. No names or writing, no exterior crease to spine, but book opens easily. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 186 pages. Measures 6"x9". A fascinating look at a major excavation of Fort Ligonier built in 1758 along the Loyalhanna Creek at what is now Lingonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania.Illustrated with drawings, plus black and white photographs of the area and of the artifacts retrieved. Dense text. Also an appendix covering animal remains from excavations. 186 pages. View More...
Lot of six including Number 174, April, 1964; Number 177, Feb. 1965; Number 182, April 1966; Number 186, April 1967; Number 187, October 1967; and Number 199, October 1970. Clean as a whistle inside and out with just a small bit of tiny writing to upper fornt corner of each. Contents pristine. Illustrated with maps, charts and photographs. All concern the same archaeological exacavations conducted by Harvard and Cornell in association with the Corning Glass Museum. Complete coverage of Lydian residential architecture, the great synagogue, evidence of urban planning and works of art discovered... View More...
