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The Use of Color Terms in the Greek Poets. Including all the Poets from Homer to 146BC Except the Epigrammatists by Kober, Alice Elizabeth - 1932
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The Use of Color Terms in the Greek Poets. Including all the Poets from Homer to 146BC Except the Epigrammatists
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Aetii Amideni: Libri Medicinales V-VIII
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On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man, From A Practical and Astronomical Point of View
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Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket . First Edition, complete with errata slip. Clean blue boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. Slight darkening to spine. Small spots of wear-through to cloth at spine ends. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top edges. Clean chocolate brown endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece "Chronological Chart of still existing early contemporary architectural testimony" with clean tissue guard. Preface by the author, followed by errata slip. 512 pages with index + 3 page promotion of same author's book, "Life and Work at The Great Pyramid.".
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Empires of the Nile
by Welsby, Derek A. (With David W. Phillipson.)
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London: Folio Society 2008. (4to in slipcase) 694pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt illustrated spine and front cover in a fine metallic gold slipcase. Top edge gilt, map endpapers, illustrated title page, plans, color photographs, appendices, bibliography, index. "It's rare that one can point to modern books on history that have fundamentally enlarged and changed our view of the past. But three accounts brought together for the first time in this collection did just that when they were first published, and they still stand today as in this collection did just that when they were first published, and they still stand today as the best introductions to the fascinating world of the ancient empires and medieval kingdoms that rules in the vast area along the Nile from Upper Egypt to the Sudan and Ethiopia" - from the Preface. Preface by Michael Wood. Locale: Egypt; Ethiopia; North Africa; Sudan. (History, History--Ancient).
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Alexander the Great from Pella to Asia - Engravings
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Epics of the Middle Ages
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Aetii Amideni: Libri Medicinales V-VIII
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Academiae Litterarum, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth with black leather spine label and head & tail lines. Fine binding and cover. Tanning. Ships daily.
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On the Antiquity of Intellectual Man, From A Practical and Astronomical Point of View
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Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1868. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket . First Edition, complete with errata slip. Clean blue boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. Slight darkening to spine. Small spots of wear-through to cloth at spine ends. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top edges. Clean chocolate brown endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece "Chronological Chart of still existing early contemporary architectural testimony" with clean tissue guard. Preface by the author, followed by errata slip. 512 pages with index + 3 page promotion of same author's book, "Life and Work at The Great Pyramid.".
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Empires of the Nile
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London: Folio Society 2008. (4to in slipcase) 694pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt illustrated spine and front cover in a fine metallic gold slipcase. Top edge gilt, map endpapers, illustrated title page, plans, color photographs, appendices, bibliography, index. "It's rare that one can point to modern books on history that have fundamentally enlarged and changed our view of the past. But three accounts brought together for the first time in this collection did just that when they were first published, and they still stand today as in this collection did just that when they were first published, and they still stand today as the best introductions to the fascinating world of the ancient empires and medieval kingdoms that rules in the vast area along the Nile from Upper Egypt to the Sudan and Ethiopia" - from the Preface. Preface by Michael Wood. Locale: Egypt; Ethiopia; North Africa; Sudan. (History, History--Ancient).
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Alexander the Great from Pella to Asia - Engravings
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Epics of the Middle Ages
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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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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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Wrack and Rune
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Signed 1st Ed. w/DJ) WRACK AND RUNE: A PETER SHANDY MYSTERY BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1982. Used First printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on title page. Good Condition/ Good condition unclipped Dust Jacket, $10.95 original price. Will ship from United States.
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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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Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy
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O'Neill, Eugene: Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy (1931 First Edition, Horace Liveright, Inc. w/Dj) DRAMA. Three Plays, or parts: Homecoming, The Hunted, The Haunted. RARE. Used. Very Good Condition/ Good- Original unclipped dust jacket. Original Cover Price is $2.50. Jacket has some loss at the spine. Now protected by mylar wrap. Please see our photos. Plot Summary: "Mourning Becomes Electra is a story styled after the Greek legend and the title refers to how the lead character is condemned to a life of mourning the disasters that befall her family. In the Greek legends, Electra is the sister to Orestes, and they are the children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon."
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What Are These Wounds: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières
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Thomas Merton. What Are These Wounds: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières. FIRST EDITION. RARE. Copyright 1950, February 17, 1948 First Printing Thus, The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee. Written by respected Trappist author THOMAS MERTON. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/GOOD- CONDITION $2.50 UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Top portion of dust jacket spine is missing. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.
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Ancient Hunters and Their Modern Representatives. Second Edition
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London: Macmillan, 1915. Second Edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Macmillan, 1915. 8vo., xxiii+591pp., illustrated with numerous b/w photo plates and reproductions, maps. Blue cloth with gilt spine decoration and titles, top edge gilting. Some moisture indications along front edge of covers, else very good, clean, bright. . Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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The Legendary History of Britain in Lope Garcia de Salazar's Libro de Las Bienandanzas e fortunas
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Collectible Fine First Edition 1979 Hardcover Clean 151 pp. Brown Leatherette Hardcover. Study of Lope Garcia De Salazar's Libro De Las Bienandanzas E Fortunas Textual commentary in Spanish and English. Fascinating journey to find Arthur's exploration of Hy Brazil and Avalon where the material Spanish mystery of Arthur in Avalon and Brazil touches the literary and Spiritual and Geoffrey of Monmouth Merlin and post Vulgate. NOT a library copy. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans The shadow on gold script is the glittering from camera! Fine condition
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The Ephebic Inscriptions of the Fourth Century B. C.
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Leiden: E. J. Brill. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, usual library stamps and . de-accession markings.. 1971. Hardcover. 9004014764 . Olive green library reinforced cloth binding. xi, 173pp + xxxi black and white photo plates. Foreword, bibliography, index of ancient authors and sources, index of inscriptions, index of names, general index. Scholarly study of classical inscriptions of the citizenship oath sworn by Athenians in the 4th century BCE. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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La Ciudad Canals: A Study of Hohokam Irrigation Systems at the Community Level
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Phoenix, Arizona State University, Department of Anthropology, Office of Cultural Resource Management, 1985, bound paperback draft report (8.5" x 11"), ix-169 pp, Very Good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bumps to cover corners and edges. An in-depth study of the ancient irrigation systems developed, built, and used by the prehistoric Hohokam people in the Salt River Valley where today we find the modern cities of Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and other Anglo communities. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawn figures, graphs, charts, maps, and photographs. Appended: References Cited.
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