Search Results: Archaeology from Blacket Books

London: British School at Rome, 1968. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy in green cloth. Three (rather attractive) stamps of the Glasgow Archaeological Society but no other markings. 218 pages + 32 plates at end. 39 figures. A study of the antiquities of the territories of which Veii was the capital. This is Volume XXXVI (new series Volume XXIII) of "The Papers of the British School at Rome".

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1908. First Edition . Folio. A good copy in rather worn and marked boards (with cloth cracked at one corner) but internally vg. Pp.xxii, 200. Five collotype plates of tablets + folding map at rear. Numerous illustrations in text. Considers the text of 122 tablets. Much on grain, cattle, sheep, butter etc.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Gift inscription on front end-paper. 144pp. Many illustrations. A guide to Scotland's ancient monuments.

London: Oxford University Press/ Humphrey Milford, 1930. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good copy in green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Some wear to spine ends and edges. Ownership inscription and blind stamp on front end-paper. Pp.xvi,242. Frontispiece and 268 illustrations. A ground-breaking study of the methods employed in the construction of stone buildings in ancient Egypt.

Dundee Museum and Art Gallery. First Edition . Nd.c.1958. A good copy in paper covers. 40pp. 21 plates.

Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1872. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a half-leather binding lettered in gilt on the spine. A littlw wear to spine ends. All edges gilt. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xxi,[3],274. 19 figures. Five essays by the famous physician, including essays on an oratory in the island of Inchcolm, the cat-stane at Kirkliston, some Scottish magical charm-stones or curing-stones etc.

Dublin: The Stationery Office, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which shows some fading to the spine although the lettering is clearly readable. Ownership inscription on the half-title. Pp.xvi,576. 83 plates (nearly all in colour). Maps. A volume in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland series. This is a very heavy book which will require extra postage.

Stornoway.: An Lanntair, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Softback. Large 4to. A near fine copy. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 80 pages. A celebration in prose and photographs of the standing stones of Callanish on the Isle of Lewis described as "the most imaginative and informative publication ever produced about this great Neolithic site."Contributions by Kenneth White, Ian Crichton Smith, Duncan MacMillan and Margaret and Ronald Curtis.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardback. A very good copy in a good plus dustwrapper which is slightly torn/chipped at head of spine. Small ownership label on front end-paper. Some paper adhesion (from wrapper) to upper board. Pp.xii,95. Illustrations. Text figures. Includes a full historical account of the castle and a full account of the excavations.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1995. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. A very good copy. No ownership inscription. 128 pages. 14 colour plates. 91 black and white illustrations.

Edinburgh: HMSO, 1914. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardback. A good plus copy bound in blue boards with new end-papers. (I think this originally came in paper covers). Some fading to spine but lettering clear. No ownership inscription and not foxed. Pp.lvi,291. 187 ground plans and illustrations in the Inventory + 7 in the Introduction. Large folding map at rear.

Department of Archaeology University of Glasgow, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. Softback. 4to. A very good copy. 13 pages. 4 maps at end (3 folding). One of a series of Reports for the Scottish Burgh Survey.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1968. Second Edition, Revised . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Ownership inscription on front end-paper. 286pp. Illustrations and diagrams.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A very good copy in a near vg dustwrapper which has one half inch closed tear and a little wear at top of spine. Ownership inscription on front end-paper. 352pp. Many illustrations.

Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardbacks, 4to. A near very good two volume set in good dustwrappers, the wrapper of volume I having a chip on the rear panel. Both wrappers are now protected in a clear removable sleeve. Moderate superficial damp-fading to the outer edge of the boards of each volume. 506 pages in total. 618 plans and illustrations. Map in pocket at the end of Volume II.

Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Hardback. A two volume set still in the original box. Both volumes are fine as is the dustwrapper of volume I. The dustwrapper of volume II has two small tears. Vol.I,pp.xxxii,264. Vol.II,pp.v,265-506. 618 plans and illustrations. Folding map in pocket at end of volume II. A nice set.

Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co, 1901. Soft cover. Good. Softback. A good copy. Unopened. Small pieces missing at spine ends. Articles on "Occupation of the County of Galway by the Anglo-Normans After 1237", "The King's and Queen's Corporation for the Linen Manufacture in Ireland", "The Christian Sepulchral Leacs and Free-Standing Crosses of the Dublin Half-Barony of Rathdown" etc.

Printed for the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, 1909. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. A very good copy in blue cloth with a white vellum spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. A clean copy with no ownership inscription and very little foxing. 38 pages. Frontispiece and 26 illustrations in text. 12 plans at end, some double-page and some coloured. This was a paper read before the Cambridge Archaeological Society on March 2nd 1908 amplified by numerous additions and extracts from the King's Hall account books.

London: British School at Athens, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. Large 4to. A very good copy in laminated boards. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 195 pages + 156 plates at the end. Figures in the text.The aim of this study is "to place the ceramics from the first major period of the palace's history in a relative and continuous sequence---.

Dublin: The Black Cat Press, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. A very good copy. Hardback. 56 pages. 17 coloured plates. 32 figures. A study of two of the finest examples of passaged cairns in Ireland.