Search Results: ANCIENT WORLDS, ANCIENT LIVES from PASCALE'S BOOKS

Grovsenor House Publishing Co.:, 2009. 289 pages, illustrated in b&w. "This is the legend of William the Conqueror. Nothing that has gone before has been so daunting, nothing that comes after will be so decisive." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Columbia University Press:, 2008. 247 pages. "Beginning in the early 13thc entiry, the burial of a child became an event of dramatic consequence. Employing awide range of sources, including historical chronicles, medical writings, Marian legends, hagiography, and popular theological texts, the author advances four important discussions of childhood that directly link fragility with other sources of cultural anixety." FINE AHRDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. NEW.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New England Antiquities Research Association:, 1998. 313 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs and line drawings. "Did the astonishing pre-Columian civilizations of the New World arise in total isolation from Old World Influences. Or did transoceanic contact over hundreds, even thousands, of years shape the development of civilization on both sides of the oceans? This volume seeks answers to that controversial question." FINE SOFTCOVER.. First Printing Stated.. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

David McKay:, 1901. 392 pages. The Preface states the following "So far as I know, this is the first attempt at a systematic classification of the whole American race on the basis of language." VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER, red cloth covers, lettering is bright to the spine and cover. Hinges has been repaired, else a nice clean copy. This book is signed by George Grant MacCurdy, George Grant MacCurdy (b. 1863, d. 1947) was Curator of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Yale Peabody Museum's Division of Anthropology.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford University Press:, 1938. First published in 1917, this book is the 1938 printing, 466 pages, illustrated. "This third edition of The American Indian is offered a brief summary of anthropological research in the New World. Twenty years have passed since the first edition appeared, so a comparison of the accompanying volume with one of the first edition should give a rough idea of the advances made in research. We hope that our classifcatory layout will give the background for such ecological, biological, geographical, economic, social, psychological, functional, and historical interpretations as the reader may care to develop." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oklahoma Press:, 1977. First published in 1970, this is the fourth printing from 1977, 585 pages, illustrated in b&w. "The purpose of this book, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Previous owner name is present. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, 1975. 439 pages, illustrated in b&w and some color. This catalogue covers the Neothlithic; Shand and Western Chou; Western Chou; Eastern Chou; Late Eastern Chou; Hans and Jades of Uncertain Date and Forgeries." FINE- HARDCOVER, red cloth covers, lettering is bright on the cover and spine. This book is one of 2,000 copies printed.. Hard Cover. Fine-/No Dust Jacket Present.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

William L. Ereedmans:, 1994. Translated Donald G. Schley, 262 pages. "Originally published as Einfuhrung in die Altorientalstik in 1985. "At last, the long-felt need of an overall survey of ancient Mesopotamian civilization has been filled." FINE- SOFTCOVER, some underlining is present on the first 49 pages of the book.. Hard Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Faber and Faber:, 1977. First published in 1962, this book is the second edition from 1977, 128 pages and 104 plates in b&w and color. "Since it appeared in 1962, Professor Watson's masterly account of the bronzes of ancient China from the earliest times down to the Han Dynasty has come to be regarded as the standard work on the subject. For this new edition, he has added a long preface incorporating the results of the latest research-in partucular the substantial research carried out by Chinese years- and seven new colour plates. He has also made a number of corrections and ampliciations in the main text and expanded the bibliography." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Princeton University Press:, 1998. 144 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. "The art of mosaic enjoyed spectacular success in the Graeco-Roman world, where its practitioners created some of the most beautful artworks.i" FINE SOTCOVER. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Peabody Museum Press;, 1982. 106 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs. This book accompanies the exhibition of the pre-Columbian Peruvian artifacts from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, at Harvard Unversity." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge at the University Press:, 1938. 99 pages, illustrated with 43 b&w photographs. This book is divided into 3 Parts: Sources- animals of personal symbolism, the Bestiary, animal romances, heraldic animals and animals studied from nature and human monstrosities and grotesques; Legends and Part 3- Lists of Examples and a Bibliography. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, red cloth covers, gilt lettering is bright on the spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

D. Appleton & Co., 1893. 448 pages, illustrated. This book is Volume 62 of the International Scientific Series. "This volume is an introduction to Anthropology, rather than a summary of all it teaches." VERY GOOD- HARDCOVER, some wear to spine edges and corners of book, red cloth lettering is bright on the spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edward Arnold & Co.:, 1918. The second impression, 230 pages, illustrated with b&w line drawings. "Many of the details and the ideas included in these pages I have been accustomed to incorporate in the ordinary routine teaching of Medical Students at Manchester University, at St. Thomas's Hospital, and at the London School of Medicine for women." A detailed study on the evolution of man. Chapters on the fore-limbs, power of grasp, clavicle, hind-limbs,thumbs and bigtoes, human foot, snout, jaws, and much more. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, green cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Academic Press:, 2007. 298 pages, illustrated in b&w. This book "offers a unified, consistnet approach to ancient technologies, teaching readers to look for insights revealed by compasisons among them. With case studies organized by process or functional topic, rather than material type, Professor Miller's scholarship creates a framework for collaboration among researchers in different locations working in different disciplines, traditions, and approaches." FINE- HARDCOVER.. Hard Cover. Fine-/Not Issued with a Dust Jacket.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of Pennsylvania Press:, 1961. 109 pages. This book is the catalogue to the Aristotle Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Library. "These books and manuscripts are a rich source for those interested in medieval and Renaissance scholarship." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

British Museum Press:, 2008. 224 pages, illustrated in color and b&w, with a Foreward by Malcolm Rogers. "It is a great honour for the British Museum to be able to present in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this exhibition on the culture of one of the greatest ancient empires- Assyria." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

University of Chicago Press:, 1990. 382 pages, illustrated in color and b&w, and translated by Edmund Jephcott. This English edition does have a few errors corrected from the German version published in 1986. FINE HARDCOVER, red cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine.. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket Present.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Thames & Hudson:, 1979. 96 pages, with 48 color and 50 b&w illustrations. "Until disease, missionary activity and colonization changed the nature of their society, the Tahitians, excelled in the production of wooden sculpture, ceremonial costumes and weapons." FINE- SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

University of California Press:, 1974. 161 pages, illustrated in b&w. "The present book, which treats only a few of the central themes opened up by this new field of knowlege, and is the outcome of reflection following on the writing of World Prehistory: An Outline, originally published in 1961." FINE SOFTCOVER. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.