Search Results: Classical Art/Antiquities from Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB

Editions Fontana ( ), 1982. Softcover. VG contents; light general cover wear, mostly to folds of flaps.. Pale green covers with bw Greek lettering. French flaps. 119 pp. with 16 bw plates and 2 bw line drawings. Text in Greek. First published in 1961 by Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athens. "The content and the study subtitle fit together fairly accurately. Aiming at a deeper understanding of the statue of Aristodikos,the book deals more generally with questions of chronology and artistic workshops in the Late Archaic Attic sculpture, top-down from 550 to 490, in sequence, but it is not a representation of actual historical path. The funerary destination of the statue gave the opportunity to study once again the fundamental questions, "What is the meaning of funerary statue in archaic Attica, and how does the significance unfold?" The author attempted to bring related literary and epigraphic evidence to gain some understanding." With a foreword, in German, by Emil Kunze. All the illustrations… Read More

Cairo, Egypt: American University In Cairo Press, 2002. Hardcover. VG-/VG (bumping & creasing to some corners. area of slight staining to back upper corner & edge area w/ some remnants to spine edge; does not appear to affect interior pgs. splitting to opening section of textblock; glue still holding. dustjacket spine sunned; scuffs & scratches.). golden-rod cloth w/ black spine printing. 248 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy tan & blue illustrated dustjacket w/ brown printing. "At the center of the world-famous pyramid field of the Memphite necropolis there lies a group of pyramids, temples, and tombs named after the nearby village of Abusir. Long overshadowed by the more familiar pyramids at Giza and Saqqara, this area has nonetheless been the site, for the last forty years, of an extensive operation to discover its past. This exciting new book-richly endowed with black-and-white historical photographs, color plates of contemporary work, and informative illustrations-at last documents the… Read More

New York: Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd, 2005. Softcover. Fine interior but with light rubbing to back cover.. Glossy black wraps with color images and white lettering. Unpaginated with approx. 65 pp. and 113 color images. Price list laid in. Each work well-annotated and with clear pictures. Includes a list of abbreviations.

London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Original/First. Hardcover. Fine/VG- (Pristine condition, but dj has light general shelf wear and a small spot on front.). Slate cloth/boards. Gilt title on spine. Grey dj with dark navy blue lettering. xvi + 216 pp. followed by 44 bw plates. 14 bw figures within text. From the series Oxford monographs on classical archaeology. A comprehensive survey of the metal industries of the Aegean in the Early and Middle Bronze ages. The first part presents a typological classification of several thousand metal objects of the period and discusses their chronology. Part two examines in detail the metal working techniques used and developed in the Aegean during the third and early second millenniums B.C. Part three traces the historical development of Aegean metallurgy and assesses the extent of external influence on it, the value of metal work as an indication of culture and cultural contact, and the impact of metallurgy on early Aegean civilization. The remainder of the… Read More

Jonsered, Sweden: Paul Aströms Förlag, 1989. Original. Softcover. VG+ but for bump to lower right corner of cover and through page 32; owner's name on ffep (professor of classical art).. White card wraps with black lettering. xii + 507 pp. with 2 bw maps and 544 bw heraldic poses. Pocket book 51 from the series Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature. Written in 3 main parts: The Motifs, The Artistic Issues, and Conclusion with several sections in each. Includes an introduction, chronology and chronological table, 3 other tables, and a lits of the plates. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the artistic phenomenon that, in the Bronze Age, many motifs were used in common by the arts of the Aegean, Egypt, and the Near East, in order to come to a conclusion as to whether this common usage can be attributed to indigenous creation in each separate area or whether it is due to crossfertilisation of the artistic traditions.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1930. Original (Not a reprint). Hardcover. VG/Good+ (NF contents, clean, bright, tight but with bumps to both back corners, including the very outer tips of the upper corners of the bw plates.) Light shelf wear to dj with a small tear at lower spine; top of dj stuck to head of book spine; bumped as well at back corners and head of spine. Former owner's name on ffep (professor of classical art). Jacket price-clipped. Foyles sticker on fep.. Fine, dark green cloth/boards. Pale green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Cream dj with bw illus. and red/black lettering. xx + 121 pp. with bw frontis, 4 bw plates (each with multiple images) and 3 bw maps (two on one folding sheet). A beautiful copy. Published in 1930, this book collects all of the ancient Egyptian objects dating from before the Twenty Seventh Dynasty that were known to have been found at Greek archaeological sites prior to original publication. The book groups the items by find site, and… Read More

Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2006. Softcover. VG. White pictorial wraps; 341 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw and color figures. 13 essays, 8 in German, 4 in English, 1 in Italian.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Princeton University Press, 1980. Hardcover. VG- (Light foxing along edges of book block; former owner name and year on first page; dj has light edge wear and hangs a little loose on the book; dj has light interior foxing; pages are aging a bit with good text and illus.). Navy blue buckram, black title block on spine, gilt letters on spine & front cover, Amish blue and illus. dust jacket, 174 pp., BW illus. A collection of 10 scholarly essays on various topics within the realm of ancient art. Serves as a companion to the comprehensive 1977 exhibition catalogue, Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Binding is tight.). Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering; tan dust jacket with brown lettering and illustration; mylar cover; xviii, 235 pp, 63 pages of bw plates; 90 illustrations. Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1982 Contents: The seasons of life -- Sevens in the life cycle -- The ages of man and the ages of world history -- Times of conversion in the human life -- Popular cosmology -- The ages of man in the preacher's repertory -- The moralized life in images.

Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1965. Softcover. VG. Grey ill. wraps. w/ turquoise spine. 37 pp. 57 bw and color plates. Text in German. Egyptian art in the Time of King Echnaton (title translation). Catalogue from the exhibition of May 14 to June 27, 1965. 83 works described. With a preface by Lise Lotte Moller and an extensive essay by Roeder.

Vienna, Austria: Skira, 2000. Hardcover. VG (sunning to board edges. spine sunned. lower corners bumped & creased. dustjacket scuffed & scratched; creasing to lower corners; spine sunned). orange cloth boards w/ white spine printing. 357 pgs w/ bw & color. white & orange illustrated dustjacket. Text primarily German with some essays in English. Illustrated throughout.

London: Oxford University Press, 1955. Hardcover. Good (soiling to boards, all plates present and clean with light age toning). Two oversized portfolio volumes, tan cloth boards with silver lettering and design on Part III and gilt lettering and design on Part IV. Part III contains title page, bw illustration, 6 pp list of the plates followed by 74 plates (17 colour and 57 monochrome plates of caves VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII, XV, XVI, XVII). Part IV contains title page, 9 pp list of the plates, bw illustration, 82 plates (17 colour and 65 monochrome plates of caves XVII-XXVII). Volumes 3 and 4 only of a 4 volume set. Explanatory text by G. Yazdani and an introduction by Laurence Binyon.

Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1988. Hardcover. VG- (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly scuffed/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/VG- (DJ is lightly worn/smudged/scuffed.). Red boards with very pale purple lettering on the spine; black DJ with photo-illustration and light yellow lettering; 476 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in German.

Bruxelles (Brussels), Belgium: Latomus Revue D'Etudes Latines, 1968. Softcover. G (Front cover has two-inch tear at spine; has average aging and wear overall; plate pages are tanning in margins; many pages remain uncut both along top and side.). Tan paper wraps, 136 text pp., followed by 34 BW plate pages. Text is in German. Explores the theme of Alexander serving as the portrait / sculpture model for Pompeius, Caesar, and Marcus Antonius. Includes many illustrations. A scarce volume, in any condition.

Warminster, Wiltshire, England: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1978. Softcover. VG- (scuffs, scratches to wraps. dark toning to spine. light rubbing to corners. old glue glue cracking to interior wrap edges w/ slight separation, otherwise, textblock & pgs firm.). glossy white wraps w/ black printing, pink illustration. 145 pgs w/ bw illustrations. Remains tightly bound. Interior bright.

The Brooklyn Museum, 1965. Hardbound. VG- (Binding is slightly aged or soiled near outer spine; former owner name and year on first page; surfaces are clean.). Tan cloth, gilt letters on spine and front cover. 110 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw, with some color illus. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 64 stone reliefs presumably dating to the Amarna Period at Hermopolis Magna. One of 2000 copies.

London: Finch & Co, 2017. Hardcover. VG+. Purple cloth boards with blue lettering. 144 unnumbered pages. Color illustrations. Contains 85 lots. Includes price list.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. Hardcover. VG+/VG (Mild shelfwear to DJ at the edges.). Grey cloth, turmeric-colored dj with carved head illustration and blue lettering; 305 pp. with 497 color illustrations plus additional maps and supporting bw figures. Includes a chronology and four main sections, divided by period, with works from the collection, well-described, in each. Published on the occasion of the redesign & reopening of the Met's Cypriot galleries in April 2000.

New York: Antiquarium, Ltd. Fine Ancient Arts Gallery, 2017. Hardcover. VG+. Black and color-illustrated boards, white lettering on covers. 33 pp. Filled with color illustrations. A catalogue of bowls, statues, sculptures, sarcophagi, etc. A nice collection.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 1981. Softcover. VG- (Clean and tight but with very light, general wear to covers.). White stapled wraps with bw illus. and black lettering. 21 pp. with 13 bw illus. Catalogue from the exhibition of 1981 at Rutgers University. With essays and examples of works from the following periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Fourth-Century Development, Hellenistic, Roman 1st Century, and on Animals in Greek Art. Includes the catalogue of works exhibited.