The Acropolis
Berlin: E. Weyhe, 1930. Hardcover. Tan boards with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt decorative elements on front cover. pp.61(3) + 104 plates. More
Berlin: E. Weyhe, 1930. Hardcover. Tan boards with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt decorative elements on front cover. pp.61(3) + 104 plates. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1894. Hardcover. Half cloth over brown papered boards. Frontispiece, 39 pp., 17 bw plates, 34 pp., 10 plates (including 2 fold-out). The eleventh memoir of They Egypt Exploration Fund, founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards, an Egyptologist, and Reginald Stuart Poole, a professor..... More
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Hardcover. brownish-grey cloth boards w/ black & gilt printed spine pate.. book, xxi. 142 pgs w/ bw illustrations. black & red, yellow illustrated dustjacket. Pages clean and bright. Remains a nice, sharp copy of this classic, historical text. More
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1921. Hardbound. Brown paper boards with black spine, gilt cover decoration and spine titles. 66 pp. plus 278 BW photographic plates. Several BW illustrations and 8 floor plans. In German. Old Crete: arts and crafts in the Aegean cultures. More
Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1918. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with black titles. Approx. 250 pp. 100 leaves of plates and additional pages of descriptive text in two languages. A large and heavy book, oversized. International and non-Continental US orders will require extra postage. In German and (we think) Arabic. Ancient Monuments..... More
Berlin, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth A. G., 1923. Hardcover. red boards w/ gilt emblem; black cloth spine w/ gilt printing. 256 pgs w/ bw illustrations. text in German. Remains a nice ex-library copy. Pages have been inspected and appear clean, but, may have an errant mark, notation, etc. Pages remain fairly..... More
Boston: Ginn & company, 1890. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 black leather and marble illustrated paper over boards; gilt spine lettering and 5 small raised bands; XI, 612 pp, XXIII bw plates. Volume 6 of a quarterly periodical featuring American archaeology. More
Norwood, Mass. Norwood Press, 1907. Hardcover. red half leather boards w/ light brown, decorative red inlaid paper; five raised bands w/ six compartment, gilt printing. variously paginated, approx 400+ pgs w/ bw illustations. Pages lightly toned. More
Paris: E. de Boccard, Editeur, 1951. 1951 and 1955. Softcover. Both volumes: Grey wraps with black lettering. 75/93 pp. respectively. Deckle edges. No illustrations. Text in French. Preface by Albert Gabriel. 27 total articles about the archaeological history of Anatolian Turkey by authors of various nationalities, including some Turks. More
London: The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1994. Hardcover. Fire engine red & color illus. boards, 314 pp., BW illus. and figures. Framework text is in English and Turkish, with essays only in English but with Turkish summaries. A collection of 27 scholarly papers presented at this 1990 conference..... More
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1991. Softcover. Fire engine red wraps, 164 pp., BW illus. and figures. Framework text is in English and Turkish, with essays only in English but with Turkish summaries. A collection of 11 scholarly papers presented at this 1987 conference. Topics include: tin deposits in Anatolia; Iron Age..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. Hardcover. Lavender cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 118 text pp. plus 28 BW figure plate pages. "The glass published here comes from the excavations undertaken between 1958 and 1978 by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis of Harvard and Cornell Universities. ....... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. Hardcover. Lavender cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 118 text pp. plus 28 BW figure plate pages. "The glass published here comes from the excavations undertaken between 1958 and 1978 by the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis of Harvard and Cornell Universities. ....... More
Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1987. Hardcover. Black cloth/boards. Beige cj with bw image and tan spine lettering. In protective Mylar cover. 571 pp. with bw figures, diagrams, plans, tables, and photos throughout, numbered by chapter. Chalcatzingo is one of Mesoamerica's most important Formative period archaeological sites, unique to..... More
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Hardcover. brown cloth boards w/ stylized, white spine printing. 323 pgs w/ select bw illustrations. grey illustrated dustjacket w/ blue printing. "In Ancient Marbles to American Shores, Stephen L. Dyson uncovers the history of classical archaeology in the United States by exploring the..... More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Light-olive-tan stamped cloth, off-white and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover; maps on flyleaves, 416 pp., BW illus., maps, charts. "Nine authorities on Mesoamerican history and archeology ... have contributed to this book, the first devoted to the history and cultura of ancient..... More
Leipzig, Germany: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1902-1903. Hardcover. Tan cloth. This volume contains plates 82-130 on thick paper, loose as issued. Most are monochrome, a few are in color. Accompanied by unpaginated letterpress pages with textual descriptions. Oversize. More
Berlin/ New York: A. Asher & Co./ Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902-1903. Hardcover. A complete set of ten oversized portfolio volumes bound in tan paper over boards with black lettering; black ribbon tie closures. Part 1 includes 11 plates with text descriptions. Part 2 includes 11 plates with descriptive text..... More
Pula: Archeological Museum of Istria, 1972. Fourth. Paperback. White glossy wraps with bw image and black lettering. 48 pp. followed by 16 pp. bw illustrations. Laid in are a bw vintage postcard of a painting of the Augustov Hram (Temple), a b/w paper brochure (in English) about the Amphitheatre in..... More
Paris: Librairie Archeologique De Victor Didron, 1847. Hardcover. Half-bound bound marbled covers and brown leather spine and corners; 352 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in French. More
Paris: Librairie Archeologique De Victor Didron, 1859. Hardcover. Three-quarter bound marbled covers and leather spine and corners; 363 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in French. More
London: The British School at Athens, [1959]. Hardcover. Burguny cloth, gilt letters on spine, 311 text pp. followed by pp. with 73 BW plates; many BW illus. and figures in text; 7 fold-outs, one large separate folded map tucked into sleeve at rear cover. Consists of 13 scholarly archaeological reports..... More
Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1938. Paperback. Tan wraps with black lettering; 153 pp; bw illustrations. This is Beureau of Research in the Social Sciences Study #26. Date of this volume is January 8, 1938. More
Moskva: Nauka, 1984. Hardcover. Red boards with gilt lettering and debossed design and embossed lettering; 391 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in Russian. More
Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2012. Hardcover. Brown boards with gilt lettering and debossed design; dark brown DJ with illustration and white, yellow and pink lettering; xiii, 169 pp.; richly illustrated. "The Antonine Wall has been visible as an upstanding earghwork across the central belt of Scotland between Forth..... More