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London: William Baynes 1809, 3rd edition. (Hardcover) 389pp. Very good. Rebound in a 19th century leather binding. Engraved frontispiece portrait, index. The spine and covers are lightly rubbed and edgeworn, the margins have been trimmed and the edges spackled, there is a previous owner's bookplate, the pages are quite clean except for the frontis which has some spotting. With a short account of the Ancient and Modern Samaritans. The whole much enlarged from the principal writers on Jewish Antiquities by Adam Clarke, LL.D. The Third Edition, with many additions and improvements. Edited by Adam Clarke. (History--Ancient, Jews, Religion).
Attic White Lekythoi (The William Henry Charlton Memorial Lecture, November, 1937) by J.D. Beazley - 1938
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Attic White Lekythoi (The William Henry Charlton Memorial Lecture, November, 1937)
by J.D. Beazley
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The Manners of the Ancient Israelites; Containing an Account of Their Peculiar Customs, Ceremonies, Laws, Polity, Religion, Sects, Arts and Trades, Division of Time, Wars, Captivities, Dispersion, and Present State.
by Fleury, Claude (Edited by Adam Clarke.)
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A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Subterraneous Surveying, and the Magneticariation of the Needle.: A rare early work on mine surveying.
by Thomas Fenwick
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Fenwick Thomas. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Subterraneous Surveying, and the Magnetic Variation of the Needle, S Hodgson Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1804. 1st Edition. 8vo. Contemporary Tree Calf, recent re-back and new headbands. PP207,title page watermarked 1801, seven folding plates of engineering and mathematical diagrams. Neat, early ownership mark on front pastedown of George Wayne M.E. Skillful repairs to three plates, with very small loss on one plate mainly to blank and fold line area. Pages lightly browned in clean and bright order throughout. A rare early work on mine surveying.
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Archaeologica Orientalia in Memoriam Ernst Herzfeld
by Miles, George C. (Editor)
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Locust Valley, New York: J.J Augustin, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 280pp. Buckram boards, debossed decoration to front cover, paper spine label. 36 photographic plates plus frontispiece and one fold-out floor plan. Contents are clean and in very sound condition with the exception of missing rear free endpaper. Herzfeld was a scholar of all phases of Near Eastern culture from the prehistoric period to Islamic times. Articles contributed by René Dussaud, Richard Ettinghausen, Hetty Goldman, Gisela M.A. Richter and others. Published with the support of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in Ernst Herzfeld's memory.
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The Store-City of Pithom and the Route of Exodus. With 13 Plates and 2 Maps. [Joint : une lettre autographe signée d'Emmanuel Cosquin à l'abbé Fulcran Vigouroux] - [Egypt Exploration Fund]
by Naville, Edouard - [(Emmanuel Cosquin ; abbé Fulcran Vigouroux)]
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London: Trübner and Co., 1885. Livre. Très bon. Cartonnage Éditeur. Signé par l'auteur. Ed. originale. In-4. London, Trübner and Co., 1885. Coll. "Egypt exploration fund". 33 x 25,5 cm, in-4, VIII - 31 (1) pp. - 15 planches gravées hors texte dont 1 en frontispice et 3 dépliantes, cartonnage imprimé de l'éditeur de demi-percaline noire. Première édition. Exemplaire de l'abbé Fucran Vigouroux comportant diverses coupures de presse de l'époque relatives à l'ouvrage, un ENVOI autographe (non signé) de l'auteur et une LETTRE autographe signée (4 pp. in-16 sur un feuillet petit in-8 plié en deux) du folkloriste Emmanuel Cosquin à l'érudit et abbé sulpicien Fulcran Vigouroux. Dans cette lettre datée du 29 mars 1885, Emmanuel Cosquin donne les détails financiers du contrat qu'il vient de signer avec l'éditeur…
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Envisioning the Temple: Scrolls, Stones and Symbols
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Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2003. English language edition. Very slight creasing to top edge of dustwrapper and some scratching to back panel of same. Original owner's gift message (blacked out) takes up most of f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Issued to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Spertus Gallery in 2003-04, deals with the Temple at Jerusalem, and with the ''Temple Scroll'' which was one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. 167pp, illustrated throughout, mostly in colour.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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The Geology of the Upper Devonian Saskatchewan Group and Equivalent Rocks in Western Saskatchewan and Adjacent Areas
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Regina SK, Province of Saskatchewan, Department of Mineral Resources, Geological Sciences Branch, Sedimentary Geology Division, Report No. 99, 1968, softcover 4to (10"h 7.75"w), 224 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good+ condition. Straight, tight and clean, light soiling and creases to covers, name inside front cover panel, small stain to pp58 not affecting readability of text. Chapter headings include; Stratigraphy, Palentology Correlation and Age, Sedimentation, Structure, Geological History, Economic Prospects, Summary and Conclusions, Selected Bibliography, Appendices (4). Illustrated with 28 maps, sections, cross-sections, and geochemical profiles, 20 pages of black-&-white plates and 8 tables.
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Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties
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Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons/The Lakeside Press, 1913. First Edition. Small Octavo. The Lakeside Classics Series were published once a year at Christmas given as gifts to employees. frontispiece, 137pp., bound in green cloth stamped in gilt, spine lettering and top edge gilt, all others uncut, very minor wear to spine ends and light rub marks to rear board. A very nice copy of one of the early "green" cloth copies which changed to red in 1927.
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Trilingual Nomenclature: an English, Latin and Greek Vocabulary. Being a Combination of Howard's Greek and Greenwood's Latin Vocabularies, with Many Additional Notes on Science and Classical Literatur
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Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. First edition. Full leather. Published Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. 12mo., 4 1/2" x 7 1/2", viii+160pp. Full calf with leather spine label. Scuffing/wear to the leather, sweating stain to top corner of first 20 pages, top corner of page 60 chipped with slight loss to text (supplied in facsimilie), mild foxing, label on fly leaf. Binding tight, text unmarked. Good. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
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Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient
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Ouvrage contenant neuf cartes et quelques spécimens des écritures hiéroglyphiques et cunéiformes. 6ème édition. vii+659 pp.+9 cartes h.t. Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1878. --- Six compartments leather spine, with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled covers and endpapers. Ligth edgewear. Some foxing on first and last pages. Very tight binding, 9 folding maps.
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Giants Of Britain Being a Short Treatise dealing with the Story of Giants Of All Ages With additional Psychometric Interpretations by Miss Iris Campbell
by J. Foster Forbes With Illustrations by Hilda W. Lomas
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Original Rare First Edition Very Good+ Blue Hardcover with Very Good- Mylar Protected Dust Jacket. Several jacket chips and creases. 1945 Clean 93 pp. B/W illus. Old inscription by a previous owner on title page. Great drawing by H. W. Lomas of British Goliath like Giant and King David like British boy facing him. See all our Three Geese in Flight Scans for Cover condition and interior.
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Sahamshir Ghar: Historic Cave Stie in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
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141-311 pages + 38 plates with figures, appendixes and tables. Qurato (10 1/2" x 7 3/4") issued in wrappers. Anthropological Papers of The American Museum of Natural History volume 46, Part 2. From the library of Dr Thomas Hester. 1st edition.The second Afghan expedition of the American Museum of Natural History was organized by Walter A Fairservis, Jr who also led the First Afghan Expedition. The Second expedition was comprehensive in scale. Members of the expedition included: Walter Fairservis director; Rose Lilien, Archaeologist; John Zeigler, geologist; Howard Stoudt, archaeologist; Louis Dupree, archaeologist; George Maranjian, physical anthropologist; George McClellan, naturalist; A Franklin MacKenzie, orientalist; Jan Fairservis, artist; Ann Dupree, botanist and Lawrence Kelsey, radio operator. When the Afghan Government failed to grant permission to excavate in north Afhanistan, permission to examine several caves in Kandahar Province was granted. The cave called Shamshir Ghar, "Cave of the…
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His Beloved Aunt Polly
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Ex-library with stickers on cover and tape reinforcement. Barcode and stickers inside covers. 24 pages. Archaeology. History. Travel. Connecticut. 11.25" X 8.75" Short illustrated book on William Gillette and his yacht the Aunt Polly which burned in dock at Gillette Castle on the Connecticut River. Book includes some information on Gillette's acting career, including his turn as Sherlock Holmes, but primarily focuses on his state and archaeological site where the Aunt Polly now lies, partially underwater.
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Ricardo Di Pompei: 32 Vedute
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Hardcover, 32 folded pages with text on back, 4.5" x 6.5", text in italian, french, english and german. Interior and exterior views of Pompei in folded postcard format within red boards,
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Über die Cistophoren und über die kaiserlichen Silbermedaillons der römischen Provinz Asia
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Berlin: Akademie Der Wissenschaften, 1856. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good-. Lg 4to. Pages533-635 plus 8 engravings. Unbound extract out of a serial publication by the Akademie der Wissenschaften. Uncut. Very clean.
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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TERRA COTTA WARRIORS: GUARDIANS OF CHINA'S FIRST EMPEROR
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Bowers Museum, 2008. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Book is in NF condition with light rubbing to edges, 2 small dings to top edge else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in FINE condition - bright, intact and whole.
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Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally Of Fugitive Rhymes
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Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."…
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.
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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph
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T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.
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Decade. A Decade of Archaeology and History in the Lebanon (Une Decennie, 1995 - 2004)
by Doumet-Serhal, Claude; Rabate, Anne & Resek, Andrea (editors)
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Beirut: The Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum, 2004. Very well illustrated, thick and very large quarto, pp 591, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Extensive essays on Tyre, Rachideh, Sidon, Eshmun, Chhim, Beirut, Byblos, Yanouh, Tripoli, Tell Arqa etc and with 84 pages on the Cedars of Lebanon.]. [Very heavy - extra popstage will be required]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good.
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