ANCIENT HISTORY

(Isle of Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology, 1991).. 25 pp, small, square 8vo, soft cover stapled in wraps. Color and b&w photos, drawings, maps. Contents: Beneath the Seabed; The Ice Ages; Island Britian and Solent Flooding; The First Solent Seamen; Defence and Trade; Wootton Haven; Shipwrecks and. Seabed Discoveries; The Past Protected; The Santa Lucia; Out of Sight Out of Mind; In Trust for the Future. Interior - light bump to top corner of textblock, staples are rusting, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. E. x t e r ior - light edgewear/rubbing, ghost of old pencil price and small crease at top corner of front cover. VG. more information

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Reader's Union, London, 1965.. 262pp + index, lg 8vo, HC n/dj. An account of archaeological missions to the prehistoric sites of the Camonica Valley in the Italian Alps, giving a depiction of village life in Neolithic times to the birth of Christ as revealed by thousands of newl. y discovered rock carvings. Many b&w photos, maps and charts. Spine slightly sunned, very minor soiling to edges of boards. VG. more information

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Grove, New York, 1960. Evergreen Profile Book 13.. 192 pp, mass market paperback. Map endpapers, b&w illustrations, family trees. "Titles, honor, power - the great Roman ladies acquired these as men did. The frailty of their sex did not exlude authority. From Livia, the domineering and self-will. ed wife of Augustus Caesar, to Agrippina the Younger, the aggressive and tragic mother of Nero, women played a role in the establishment of the Roman Empire that seems both amazing and anachronistic to the modern mind. In a thoughtful and someti. m e s startling study, Miss Assa explores the often fantastic careers of the women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, descendants of Julius Caesar, and mothers and wives of temperors themselves. Their ambitions and their schemes, their loves and indis. cr et io ns, their devotions, their day-to-day chores, their heroism are presented with detailed intimacy and vivid drama. Supplementing her text with a selection of beautiful photographs of statues, frescoes, and objects from Roman times, Miss Ass. a d esc rib es her characters as human beings curiously composed of intellect and brutality, culture and snobbery, kindness and the highest form of sophistication...." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very li. ght edge wea r, crease at hinges, a few tiny liquid marks on top of textblock, tiny dint on front edge of spine, very light rubbing, very light browning and a few finger prints on rear cover. Very Good-. more information

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Yale University Press, New Haven, 1979, Ist ed.. 275 pp, small 4to, HC. In this highly readable book, the author carefully sifts the rich archaeological and historical evidence that is available about the Avebury monuments and their builders to present a comprehensive and convincing picture of th. e life of the primitive communities that erected these massive structures nearly 5,000 years ago. Many b&w and color illus. Dj is price clipped. Some slight browning to edges of pages and dj. VG/VG. more information

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University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, (1998).. 195 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0812234553 B&w photos, maps, plans, drawings (many by Victor Ambrus), charts, color plates. "The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in. Europe and arguably in the world. It lies in a site that contains all the elements of archaeological mystery and romance: seventeen burial mounds, buried treasure, great works of art, sacrificed horses, and evidence of human execution. In the f. i r s t accessible account of the whole story to date, Martin Carver explains what we know of Sutton Hoo burial ground, in which the leaders of the Dark Age kingdom of East Anglia signaled their belief in a pagan and maritime kingdom independent of . th e Ch ristian Europe of the day...tells the story, not only of one of the most dramatic historic places in early England but of the fifty years of its exploration - a history of British archaeology." Tiny wrinkle at bottom of front hinge. Dust j. ack et ha s light wrinkle at top edge of rear flap, minor rubbing at top of rear panel. Near Fine/Very Good+. more information

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Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1984.. 284 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0814317405 B&w maps, tables. "This collection gathers together twelve studies in aspects of the economic and social history of the Greek and Roman world, in particular the nature and e. xtent of its maritime commerce, ranging from practical matters such as what sort of men went into the business of trade and how they operated to questions of broad scope: how did trade affect the cultural interchanges between East and West, betwe. e n China and the Roman Empire? Over half of the volume is devoted to that exotic phase of ancient commerce carried on with Africa to the south and with Arabia, India, and China to the east. Professor Casson describes a first century A.D. attempt. o f a Chinese envoy to reach the western extension of the trade route that linked East to West; the envoy traveled only as far as Mesopotamia, where local businessmen, jealous of their profits as middlemen, fed him a cock-and-bull story about the . per il ou s two-year sea voyage that lay ahead....Roman merchants were more adventurous with their trading vessels braving the monsoon winds off the Indian coast to bring back the enormously profitable spices, ivories, and Chinese silks to the Weste. rn w orl d. These studies probe such questions as: How long did sluggish ancient sailing vessels take to reach these far-off places? With what peoples, what governments, did Roman traders deal on reaching the shores of India? What, precisely, wer. e the pro duc ts they brough back - e.g., was the cinnamon they loaded on Indian ports what we use today? Casson also turns to the plays of Menander that help to detail the class structure of Athens, its Three Hundred, the Rockefellers and Onassis. es of the a ge, and the real estate operators, thes shopkeepers, the prostitutes, the 'naukleros'; Egyptian papyrus record prenuptial agreements, ancient thieves, and nagging offspring. Lastly, two studies deal with problems much in our minds today. : unem ployme nt a nd the use of energy." Previous owner's small stamp on front pastedown, tiny crease at bottom edge of pages 109-118, very light scratch on front board, small very faint sticker mark on free rear endpaper. Dust jacket has very li. ght wri nkling along top edge, light soiling, small faint ink line on rear hinge. Very Good+/Very Good. more information

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Pan, London, 1964.. 206 pp, mass market paperback. B&w plates. "China has one of the oldest civilizations, a way of life that flourished almost unchanged till the early years of the twentieth century. Yet few in the West know the absorbing story of China's beginning. s, of the unification under the Emperor Shih-Huang-Ti around 200 B.C., of the building of the amazing Great Wall and of the violence that accompanied it. Here Leonard Cottrell has pieced the facts together with customary skill, once more making . l i t tle-known history and historical characters fascinatingly alive." Interior - light to moderate browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, light to moderate browning to edges of . te xt bl ock, slightly concave and twisted spine. Very Good-. more information

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Minerva, Geneve, 1977.. 142 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs. Contents: A portrait of the Celts; Housing, food and clothing; Women and children. Death; The land. Hunting. I. ndustry; Divinities. Divination. Forms of Worship; Bards and Druids; Governments and Society. Justice and War; The Celtic expansion. Minor edge wear. Dust jacket has areas of light edge wrinkling, very light rubbing. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Editions Ferni, (Geneva, 1979).. 179 pp, 4to, hard cover (black simulated leather spine, red silk-like boards with gold decoration/lettering) - no dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w map, photos, plan, color plates. Contents: The marvelous story of the discovery; The phar. aoh's curse; The tomb of Tutankhamen; Towards the other life - funeral rites; The golden age of the XVIIIth Dynasty; The Heretic Pharaoh; Tutankhamen and his people - an attractive private life; A religion both natural and magic; A well-organize. d p u blic life; Too short a reign; Color Plates; Notes on the Color Plates; Bibliography. Interior - very narrow, 3" long band of wrinkling along bottom edge of plates XXXIII to XL - from manufacturing process, otherwise clean and tight with no p. re v io us ownership marks. Exterior - clean and bright light wear at top front corner. VG. more information

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Oxford University Press, New York, 1994, 5th edition.. Unpaginated (Preface + 92 b&w numbered maps - many double page + Index of Place Names), large 8vo (9 7/8" H), soft cover. "Surveying more than two thousand years of classical history, this fully revised and updated Fifth Edition...is a remarkable v. isual history of the classical world from ancient Egypt and the growth of the Greek city-states, to the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. The atlas contains ninety-two clear and easy-to-read maps covering an extraordinary range of topics, inclu. d i n g religious, political, cultural, economic, and agricultural aspects of the ancient world. Detailed maps delve into everything from the spread of Judaism and Christianity to the coinage of the Roman Empire and Pompeii, as well as the origins . of t he Greek and Latin writers. The atlas goes on to explore all the great historical milestones, from the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC, to the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Second Punic War (218-201 BC), to the barbarian invasions of . the fi fth century AD. Included as well are maps showing the world according to Herodotus and Ptolemy, and the rivers, mountains, and rainfall of the Mediterranean area...the changing frontiers of the Roman Empire under Rome's various emperors, a. map det aili ng the persecution of the Christians, and maps showing the Roman Empire in its final years..." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear and rubbing. VG+. more information

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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982, revised.. lvi, 309 pp, 16mo (6 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Bilingual text (Latin/English) on facing pages. ISBN 0434991120 "The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. A.D. 100-176) first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal. Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, discovered that beneath an account of the Acts of the first Council of Chalcedon in 451 had originally been written a copy of the correspondence between Fronto and members of the imperial family. , including no less than three who were to wear the purple. The letters possess an extraordinary fascination as giving an authentic record of the relationship between the foremost teacher of his time and his illustrious pupil, Marcus Aurelius, his. c hief correspondent. Apart from small-talk (but even the trivialities of the great are replete with interest) the principal subject is Latin prose style. Fronto practises to excess the cultivation of trendy mannerisms, but sees clearly enough th. e s terility of a slavish imitation of classical models." Very minor edge wear. Dust jacket has light edge wear. Near Fine/Very Good. more information

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Routledge, London, 1996.. 203 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), soft cover. ISBN 0415143608 B&w photographs, maps, plans, drawings/diagrams. "...presents the most recent discoveries connected with the foundation of Rome and its environs: princely tombs, inscriptions and patrici. an houses are included in a complete guide to the subject and the controversies surrounding it. The result is a jargon-free and compact volume with pertinent illustrations, which will stimulate and interest the student of ancient Rome, and appea. l t o the wider public fascinated by the Rome of Romulus and the Tarquins." Interior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear. Very Good+. more information

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, NEw York, 1910, 2nd printing.. 263 pp + ads, 8vo (8 7/8" H), hard cover (maroon cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine) - no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Contents: Preface; Introductory; Greek Poetry; Greek Prose; Greek Art - I: Architecture and Sculpture; Greek Art - II: Pa. inting and Music; Science: Grammar - Logic - Mathematics - Medicine; Politics - Sociology - Law; Higher Thinking, Philosophy, Speculative and Practical Theology. A few pages with light wrinkle, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of textblock. , l ight edge wear, light wrinkling to top/bottom of spine, one slight corner bump, a few very faint finger marks on boards, small area of minor fading on spine. Very Good. more information

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Thams and Hudson, New York, 1991.. 216 pp, small 4to (10" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0500390266 Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with photographs, drawings, plans. "For Geoffrey Martin and his colleagues, the internationally acclaimed discovery of the tomb of Maya . was the culmination of a painstaking ten-year search at Saqqara, the burial ground of Memphis, ancient capital of Egypt. Maya had been Tutankhamun's treasurer and one of the most powerful men during the boy-king's short reign. Exploration of his t. omb, and those of other important officials in the necropolis, has opened a new chapter in our understanding of Egyptian society more than 3,000 years ago. (This) is Professor Martin's first-hand account of his discoveries. Since 1975, his Angl. o - D utch team has uncovered a series of spectacular funerary monuments, not just of Maya, but of Horemheb - Tutankhamun's Commander-in-Chief and later himself pharoah - Ramesses the Great's sister, Princess Tia, and other courtiers of New Kingdom . Eg yp t. The beautiful wall reliefs and paintings in these tombs have transformed our knowledge of New Kingdom art, hitherto largely dominated by the well-known treasures of ancient Thebes. Many isolated masterpieces in the world's museums can no. w b e l ink ed to the Saqqara monuments from which they originally came, thanks to the author's detective work. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings of all the major reliefs and other finds - from jewelry to mummy-cases - (this) is . an e xcit ing account of the richest Egyptian tomb discoveries of recent times." Minor browning to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has minor edge wear/wrinkling, minor rubbing. Very Good+/Very Good+. more information

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(Penguin, London, 1996).. 144 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H), soft cover. Profusely illustrated in color with maps, photographs, drawings. "Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Athenian Golden Age and the conquests of Alexander the Great, (thi. s book) traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes and environment. Over 60 full colour maps; Innovative, informative, up-to-date and visually. e x citing; Special features and time-lines; Over 70 illustrations in colour and black and white; Indispensable one-volume handbook for students and interested lay readers alike." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exter. i or - very minor rubbing. VG+. more information

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Tor Mark Press, Truro, n.d.. 32 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs, map. Contents: Introduction; Stone Age henges; Megalithic chamber tombs/holed stones; Bronze Age barrows/stone circles/menhirs; Iron Age hill forts/cliff castles/cemeteries/courtyard. -house villages/fogous; An antiquities mini-tour. Interior - very light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light browning - mainly on spine. Very Good. more information

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University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1999.. 353 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0965088167 B&w photographs, plans. "Family structure, gender identity, food supply, religion, and entertainment are all crucial to an understanding of the Roman world. As views of Rom. an history have broadened in recent decades to encompass a wider range of topics, the need has grown for a single volume that can offer a starting point for all these diverse subjects, for readers of all backgrounds. This collection fills such a. n e ed by uniting a series of general introductions on each of these topics for the nonspecialist. Each essay brings readers into contact with broadly ranging evidence, as well as a wide variety of approaches that are needed to study basic questio. n s ab out the Roman world. Essays explore the Roman family, gender definition, demography, Roman food supply, Roman religion, and the wide variety of public entertainment throughout the empire. The volume brings together an unparalleled range of . me th odo logies and topics. It will enable the modern reader to understand the Roman world in all its complexity." Fine/Fine. more information

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(Maria Reiche, Nazca, Peru, 1987), 6th edition.. 92 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" H), hard cover with pictorial front board, no dust jacket (as issued). SIGNED AND DATED ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Trilingual text (German/English/Spanish). B&w photos (1 fold-out with fold-out overlay), drawings, maps (1 fold-. out), color photos. "Preliminaries for a scientific interpretation of the prehistoric ground-drawings of Nazca, Peru and introduction to their study." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear. , t iny bump on front cover, minor rubbing. VG. more information

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Facts on File, New York, (1990), Ist printing.. 238 pp, 4to (12" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Pictorial endpapers. 468 illustrations (342 color), 53 maps. "A lucid text, aimed at the nonspecialist, is accompanied by copious explanatory maps and illustrations in full color. All the major sit. es that form part of the story are featured, with site plans, drawings and photographs to guide the reader. A wide variety of important topics, including the Royal Cemetery at Ur (discovered by Sir Leonard Woolley), zigguarts (the famous Mesopot. a m i an temple towers) and the Babylonian's contributions to science and mathematics, are presented as special features...includes a Glossary of technical and other terms and contains valuable reference aids in the form of a Chronological Table, Bi. bl io gr aphy and Gazetteer as well as an Index." Bottom corner of boards bumped, top corners slightly bumped, small bump at top/bottom edge of both boards, slight bumping at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wear, wrinkling at top/b. ott om of spine and flap-folds, small stain at inside bottom edge of spine. Very Good-/Very Good-. more information

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Four Square / New English Library, London, 1965, 4th edition, revised.. 286 pp, mass market paperback. "How this empire grew, flourished, declined and then collapsed is recounted in this colourful, scholarly work, from the early beginnings of the Republic to the last days of the Empire. Here unfolds the whole panorama. of Roman existence: political, adminstrative and economic affairs, art, literature, philosophy and religion, as well as domestic and social life. For the destiny and function of Rome was nothing more or less than the making of Europe. (This) i. s o ne of those rare, lucid and illuminating books which gives equal pleasure to the reader who is accustomed to sitting down with Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' and to the student who knows no more of Rome than what he has gleaned. f r om a textbook history." Interior - light moderate browning, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light to moderate browning to edges of textblock, minor rubbing, very light browning to covers, faint creases . on sl igh tly concave spine. Very Good-. more information

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Mayflower, New York, n.d.. 127 pp, folio, hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with color photographs, b&w map. "At the time of (the eruption of Mount Vesuvius), Pompeii was a thriving resort much favoured by the Roman nobility. Of their lives, and those of the. Pomepeiians, much has been discovered since the excavation began in the 18th century. The centre of religious life was the temples, of which only parts remain. However, pillars, steps and moss-covered walls still recall the grandeur of the ar. c h i t ecture. Many of the houses and villas revealed mosaic floors of the greatest intricacy as well as splendid murals whose colours have remained brilliant through the centuries. Rows of single-storey shops still contained terracotta amphorae . - la rg e pots once filled to the brim with corn oil and fine wine. Flower and grasses now fill the cracks between the paving-stones of which the roads were constructed; roads that are deeply rutted, providing evidence of the town's busy traffic. . Th ere is m uch to see in Pompeii..." A photographic tour of the treasures of this once vibrant seaside town. Light bump to bottom corner of boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling along top edge. VG/VG. more information

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William Morrow, New York, 1983, first edition.. 346 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 068801545X "With the publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's 'Worlds in Collision' in 1950 a bombshell burst upon the literary and scientific scene whose reverberations continue to this da. y. Even prior to publication, the book was the subject of intense controversy. In it, Velikovsky suggested a catastrophic history of the solar system, which at once resolved innumerable historical, astronomical, and geological enigmas, while als. o challenging more than a few hallowed scientific dogmas....Through as concerted campaign of letter writing, a successful boycott of the original publisher's textbook department was undertaken by an elite group of American astronomers. Even as (it. ) h overed at the top of the national best-sellers lists, the publisher was forced to suspend publication of the book, and another firm, which had no vulnerable textbook division, took it on....Here for the first time is the full account of what act. ua ll y transpired...." Cigarette odor, very light browning to edges of textblock, light browning to top edge of boards, tiny dint on top edge of rear board. Dust jacket has light browning at edges, minor wrinkling at top of spine, very light rubb. ing . Very Good/Very Good. more information

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His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1931.. 13 pp + information sheet on the Caerleon Excavation Committee laid in, 8 3/8" H, soft cover (sewn in wraps). B&w illustrations - 2 photographs, 1 reproduction, 1 fold-out plan. A guidebook. Contents: Caerleon in Legend and History; Roman Amphit. heatres; The Caerleon Amphiteatre: Description; The Caerleon Amphitheatre: Its History; Relics from the Caerleon Amphitheatre. Interior - a vertical and horizontal light fold crease across pages, small soft crease at top/bottom corner of pages, . o t h erwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - a vertical and horizontal light fold crease on covers, small soft corner creases, very minor edge wear. Good. more information

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St. Martin's, New York, 1991, first U.S. edition.. 365 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0312059949 Map endpapers, b&w maps, plans, drawings, reproductions. "Arguing, convincingly, that the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey' do not fit the topography, geology, climate, and oceanic. tidal patterns of the eastern Mediterranean, Wilkens relocates the Homeric scene in western Europe and the northern Atlantic, revealing the precise site of Troy itself and the plain on which the Trojan War was fought. By examining the texts in d. e t ail, Wilkens has identified over 400 place-names in western Europe and concludes that the original oral version was composed by Homer several hundred years before it was written down. He reveals that the Trojan War was fought on a far larger sc. al e than previously thought, by Celts from regions as far apart as Scandinavia and Spain, and that the 'Odyssey' provided an oral map for illiterate Celtic seafarers....an extraordinary and enlightening journey into prehistory that is as exciting a. s t he voyages of Odysseus. Thanks to Wilkens' patient detective work, many of the most puzzling aspects of Homer's epic poems now fall into place, enabling the reader - perhaps for the first time - to understand fully the meaning and significance. of Eur ope's oldest literary masterpieces.' Very light dust soiling on top of textblock, minor soiling on bottom of textblock, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edge wear at corners and at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has min. or e dge wear, very light edge wrinkling, light creasing at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds and at bottom of front flap, light rubbing to glossy surfaces, very small faint scuff on rear panel. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Bracken, London, (1995), reprint of Remains of the Prehistoric Age in England, Methuen, London, 1904.. 320 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w drawings, plans, map. "...provides an illustrated history of successive periods - from the Stone Age to the Iron Age - that breathes life into our ancestors and their extraordinary ability to survive...L. isted within are Megalithic remains, menhirs, barrows, dykes, areas where river drift implements have been found, cup-and-ring markings, and ancient villages and caves... Three tiny holes to free front endpaper, light wrinkling to top of spine,. s m a ll areas of glue residue on rear board. Dust jacket has light edgewear/rubbing/wrinkling. VG/VG. more information

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Penguin, London, (1953), Ist edition.. 200 pp, mass market paperback. B&w photos, drawings, maps, plans. "...(throws) new and exciting light, not only on the great pre-classical empires of Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt, but on the art of Minoan Crete, the Bronze Age culture of Cyprus, and . the trade and economics of Greece in the heyday of the Athenian Empire." Interior - pages browning lightly, two pages with finger smudges, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - covers have browning and light soiling, . two faint watermarks/old price stamp/tiny dint - migrates into approx. page 20 - all on front cover, soft corner crease on rear cover. Good, sound reading copy only.. more information

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