Archaeology

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1970. Occasional Papers on Technology, no. 10. Hard covers, no dust jacket. V.g. /No Jacket. Ex-library copy with pasted-in issue sheet and stamps; Dewey number on spine, cover enclosed by plastic film. more information

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Guildhall Museum , n.d. (c. 1955). Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. 22 pp. Ex-library copy. more information

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Williams & Norgate, 1913. 7th edition. Full red morocco leather. Fine /No Jacket. Prize bookplate (Orleton School, Scarborough). A very handsomely bound copy. more information

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Merseyside County Council, 1982. Work notes 3. Paper covers. V.g/No Jacket. V.g., cover sl. soiled with trace of adhesive sticker. Edited by Joan Taylor of the University of Liverpool, this book comprehensively catalogues the ancient artefacts (and rare surviving structures) of the central Pennines, roughly from Earby in the north to Longdendale in the south and from Leeds to Anglezarke Moor from east to west. Introductory chapters discuss the palaeoenvironment, topography and the archaeological evidence from the mesolithic, neolithic, bronze and iron ages; appendix 2, the index of artefactual discoveries, contains 412 entries. The book is illustrated with 36 line drawings, maps and diagrams. more information

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City of Winchester, 1954. Reprinted from the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, vol. 18 part 3, 1954. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. 12 pp. (the latter torn) plus fold-out plan. Ex-library copy with bookplate and stamps. more information

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J.R. Collis, in association with N.M.G.M, 1992. 1st edition; Sheffield Archaeological Monographs no. 7. Pictorial hard covers. As new /No jacket. Scarcely used. Proceeedings of a colloquium held in 1991 to try to resolve uncertainties concerning the period from the 11th to 7th centuries B.C. in southern Transjordan. xiii, 202 pp. more information

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British Association for the Advancement of Science , 1963. Reprint of 1961 edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. xii, 80 pp. more information

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Sussex Archaeological Society, Lewes, 1978. Hard covers, no dust jacket. Fine /No Jacket. Scarcely used. Vol. 116 only. xiii, 417 pp., well indexed. more information

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Dioscorides Press, 1990. 1st edition; Historical, Ethno- and Economic Botany series vol. 3. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new/As new. Deals with several different aspects of plants in archaeology: firstly their use in relation to ancient mine sites; secondly as evidence of palaeoclimates and palaeovegetation; and thirdly aerial archaeology with the use of plants as 'crop-mark' or vegetation indicators. The survival of ancient crop plants is also discussed. The senior author was a bit of a polymath, and this highly original account is full of interesting insights. more information

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Macmillan & Co, 1911. 2nd reprint of 1896 edition; Golden Treasury Series. Hard covers, no wrapper. V.g/No Jacket. V.g., gilt motif on front board; occasional notes in text. Facsimile of original t.p.: Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artifically, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations. London, Printed for Hen. Brome at the Signe of the Gun in Ive-lane, 1658. xxxi, 208 pp. more information

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Pelican (Penguin Books), 1954. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Owner's signature on cover, some edgewear but internally clean.301, (3) pp. more information

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Peregrine Books (an imprint of Penguin Books), 1975. Paperback edition, first published in 1969 by Faber & Faber. Paper covers. Good /No Jacket. Pages tanned; no reading creases. The archaeology of human origins and dispersal. 455 pp. more information

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London: SPCK, 1908. Decorative cover in gilt, red and black on green cloth. V.g. /No Jacket. Former owner's book plate; some edge wear, internally clean. 272, (8) pp., col. frontispiece (folded map, intact). more information

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Merseyside Archaeological Society, 2008. 1st edition. Paper covers. New /No Jacket. Introductory account of a neolithic monument, originally a passage grave but now reconfigured as a stone circle. Newly commissioned obliquely lit digital images of the carvings greatly enhance the text . (4), 43 pp. more information

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Chichester City Council, 1961. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. 4 pp., 8 pp. of illustrations including a plan. "An interim report on the 1961 excavations". Library bookplate and stamps. more information

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Chichester City Council, 1964. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. 8 pp., 12 pp. of illustrations including a fold-out plan. "An interim report on the 1963 excavations". Library classmark on front cover. more information

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British Museum Press, 2005. 1st edition. Paper covers. As new /No Jacket. Barely used copy of the catalogue of an impressive exhibition of mainly Achaemenian artefacts, some loaned from the National Museum of Iran and the Louvre for the first time, which celebrates the achievements of the Persian Empire at its zenith. Includes chapters on languages and inscriptions by Irving Finkel, The Royal Table and Jewellery by John Curtis, Religion and Burial Customs by Shahrokh Ramzjou and Transport and Warfard by Nigel Tallis. Sponsored by the Iranian Heritage Foundation and others, the exhibition catalogue will be a major source of future reference. In the timely words of BM Director Neil MacGregor, "(the exhibition) in its acknowledgement of cultural differences within one coherent and effective state ... is perhaps more than ever a proper object of admiration and study". 270 pages, 473 catalogue entries. more information

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British Museum Press, 2005. 1st edition. Paper covers. As new/No Jacket. Barely used copy of the catalogue of an impressive exhibition of mainly Achaemenian artefacts, some loaned from the National Museum of Iran and the Louvre for the first time, which celebrates the achievements of the Persian Empire at its zenith. Includes chapters on languages and inscriptions by Irving Finkel, The Royal Table and Jewellery by John Curtis, Religion and Burial Customs by Shahrokh Ramzjou and Transport and Warfard by Nigel Tallis. Sponsored by the Iranian Heritage Foundation and others, the exhibition catalogue will be a major source of future reference. In the timely words of BM Director Neil MacGregor, "(the exhibition) in its acknowledgement of cultural differences within one coherent and effective state ... is perhaps more than ever a proper object of admiration and study". 270 pages, 473 catalogue entries. more information

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Vega, 2002. 1st paperback edition. Paper covers. Good/No Jacket. Signed by the author. Front cover starting to separate from spine, internally v.g. 174 pp. more information

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John Baker, London, 1967. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. Inscribed by the author on ffep. A tidy copy, with small repair to top of jacket's spine, in protective plastic cover. 187 pp. more information

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University of Chicago Press, n.d. (1953). 1st edition. Bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. V.g. /No Jacket. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and library bookplate. xiii, 154 pp. more information

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Chichester City Council, 1956. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Library classmark on front cover. 16 pp. more information

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H.M.S.O, 1991. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new /As new. "At the end of the eighteenth century Lancastrian Henry Blundell was building a collection of over 400 marble and bronze sculptures from the ancient world. At the end of the twentieth century this unique and important collection is still virtually intact and in the care of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. A new five-volume scholarly work examines the huge Ince Blundell collection. This first volume introduces the collection and offers a detailed study of the femaile portraits" - blurb. (6), 97 pp. Note: only two other parts of the series are so far available: Vol. 1 part 2 (the Male Portraits) and vol. 2 (the Ash Chests etc.). Others are in preparation. more information

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Duncan Baird, London, 2002. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new /As new. 144 pp. more information

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Canterbury Town Clerk, n.d. (c. 1958). Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Unpaginated, c. 11 folios. Ex-library copy. more information

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Society of Antiquaries / NMGM, 1988. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Slight corner wear. A collection of papers published, slightly belatedly, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the death of this paramount collector and museum promoter. xiii, 244 pp. more information

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London: Thames & Hudson, 1967. Translated from Norwegian; 1st thus. Cloth, no jacket. V.g. /No Jacket. A tidy copy; top edge orange, no jacket. 205 pp., including 75 plates. more information

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Book Club Associates, 1974. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/v.g. V.g. in d.w. A rather curiously designed book, in which hundreds of plans have been redrawn to a standard format that doesn't quite work as intended, due to the huge variation in scale from site to site and the excessive use of dark-green body colour. Text set tightly In 3 columns. The glory of Persepolis is reduced to a densely rectilinear architect's plan conveying nothing of the majesty of the site. The book is arranged geographically rather than by the more usual historical sequence, which makes it even more confusing. more information

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Laensstyrelsen Dalarnas Laen, n.d. (c. 2007). 1st edition. Folded map. V.g. /No Jacket. Rear spotted. A well-designed map guide to the World Heritage site which embraces both the Stora Kopparberg (large copper mountain), an ancient copper mine, and the city which grew up alongside it. A n under-rated but fascinating monument to industrial archaeology. more information

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Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, 2004. 1st edition in paperback. Paper covers. Fine /No Jacket. Analysis of the neolithic rock images of Iheren in Algeria have revealed a great deal about the life of Tassilian pastoralists who inhabited the Sahara in its former more verdant guise. The work is also of considerable interest to paleozoologists, with keys to the illustrations identifying the different species of animals and their actions. The birth of a lamb is graphically portrayed. The author is curator of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. xvi, (2 maps), 157 pp. more information

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Evans Brothers, London, 1980. 1st edition. Pictorial hard covers. Fine /No Jacket. Little used. (8), 88 pp. more information

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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978. 2nd printing, first published in 1974. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Trace of price label on front cover, otherwise little used.93 pp. more information

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Ekdotike Athenon, Athens, 1981. Reprint of 1978 edition, with revisions. Paper covers with folding flaps . Fine / Fine . Large folded map at rear. Well illustrated and authoritative guide to one of Classical Greece's most important regions, situated in the N.E. Peloponnese just south of Corinth. 160 pp. more information

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Phillimore, 1981. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. Little used. xiv, 144 pp. more information

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Manchester University Press, 1974. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g/No Jacket. Slight edge wear, else near fine. A wide ranging multi-author account of the Roman fort at Manchester. Folding plans, xviii + 198 pp., 14 plates. more information

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John Murray, 1947. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. Slight wear to extremities of jacket, otherwise near fine. 224 pp. more information

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Hutchinson, 1960. First published in 1959 in translation; originally issued in French. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine /V.g. Jacket frayed at tip of spine. 237 pp. more information

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Thames & Hudson, 1980. Revised edition, first published in 1947. Paper covers. Fine /No Jacket. Fine. A history of archaeological exploration in modern Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) which combines a popular readable style with great authority. Although the book gives perhaps undue prominence to British archaeologists this partly reflects the balance of national endeavour. The author was technical adviser to the Directorate-General of Antiquities, Baghdad during and shortly after the second world war, during which period the first edition of this book was written, and then served as director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and later Professor at the University of London, retiring in 1969. 216 pp., 80 illustrations including two maps of sites mentioned in the text. more information

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British Museum Press, 1989. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. Slight corner wear, otherwise little used. 240 pp. more information

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George Bell & Sons, 1902. Stereotype reprint. Brown cloth, no dust jacket. V.g. /No Jacket. Slight shelf-wear, Hebrew ex libris stamp on t.p. (4), 578 pp., col. frontispiece more information

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Henry G. Bohn, London, 1847. New edition; originally published in translation in 1770. Modern green cloth. Good /No Jacket. Rebound in modern green cloth, gilt title and date on spine; traces of self-adhesive tape on preface; internally clean and unfoxed. Col. frontispiece, (4), 578 pp. more information

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Thames & Hudson, 1972. 1st English edition, translated by Ruth Tringham; Ancient Peoples and Places series. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. Jacket price clipped, sunned at front, internally a little used copy. A detailed account of the prehistoric archaeology of the trans-Caspian region, well illustrated with photographs of recently uncovered artefacts. 219 pp., 53 photographs, 43 line drawings, 1 map. more information

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Faber & Faber, 1972. 1st edition. Paper covers. V.g/No Jacket. V.g., cover sl. soiled. Concise handbook to Iranian archaeological sites, copiously illustrated with maps and plans. 358 pp. more information

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Pelican, 1960. 1st edition. Paper covers. Good /No Jacket. No major faults other than some tanning to edges of pages. 288 pp. more information

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H.M.S.O., London, 1962. Ministry of Works guidebook . Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. 44 pp., fold-out plan at rear. Ex-library copy with bookplate and stamps. more information

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National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, 1993. Occasional Papers Liverpool Museum no. 7. Paper covers. V.g. /No Jacket. 0 more information

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Macmillan & Co., London, 1888. Translated from the 2nd Swedish edition. Publisher's red cloth. V.g. /No Jacket. Publisher's red cloth, impressed design on front cover, gilt title and axe-head on spine; slight edge wear, untrimmed, internally clean with minimal foxing. xvi, 214, (2) pp. more information

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Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983. 1st edition. Paper covers. Fine /No Jacket. Fine; price sticker on rear cover. School project book. more information

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Longman & Co., London; J. Noake, Worcester, 1877. Hard covers, no dust jacket. Good /No Jacket. Rear hinge of spine split towards the top; foxing to t.p. and frontispiece. 336, 32 pp. more information

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British Academy, London, 1931. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /Good. 1 more information

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