Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Denton Island Books

Macmillan, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. Tightly bound, with unmarked pages; light wear to upper edge and corners of jacket. 288 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; ISBN/EAN: 9781509830503. Inventory No: dscf7496. . 9781509830503

Getty Research Institute, 2014. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Pencil annotations in page margins, some underlining, otherwise in very good, clean condition. "The value for us today is in having 'a consummate insider's account of the foundation of the museum as an institution.' Endnotes and color plates expand this scholarly look at early collecting. Cultural anthropologists and collectors will appreciate Quiccheberg's insights and descriptions of creating the ultimate Wunderkammer."--Maine Antique Digest 144 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN/EAN: 9781606061497. Inventory No: dscf10439. . 9781606061497

British Museum Press/BCA, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A bright, clean, and tight copy. Unmarked pages, light creasing to top edge of jacket, very small nick to front side edge. The book written by Dr. Quirke (Egyptian Curator at the British Museum, London) and illustrated by Mr. Forman (Photographer) is most recommendable. With a clear and concise style, the former introduces to us the historical evolution of the traditional religious literature of Ancient Egypt, i.e., the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead, not only focusing on the "historical" process but also in the evolution of the contents and the mental horizon expressed therein. There are excellent editions and translations of all of the aforesaid "Egyptian books", but very few in which the connection between the three of them can be traced so neatly as in this one. The superb color plates of the second co-author are an actual mine of visual information on monuments for… Read More