Resultados de búsqueda: Middle Eastern / Ancient Near Eastern from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1982. xv, 228 pages, [14] leaves of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap, protected in a mylar cover. "This volume presents a study of the beginnings of biblical archeology examines its historical background and the cultural conditions which influenced its development. The author knits together this period's events and trends, starting with Napoleon's campaign in the Middle East, to which he attached French scholars, and ending with the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine in 1917. He reports on the political in-fighting and covert plotting between rival nations and the individual battles between opposing scholars that led to many of archeology's greatest discoveries." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Preface; PART I: A LAND OF MYTHS. 1. The lure of the Holy land; 2. Rumblings in the East; 3. The land of the butcher; 4. Visions of the end of the world; 5. The… Leer más

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. xiv, 285 pages, illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Translations of papers originally published in Soviet journals 1973-1989. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Between 1969 and 1980, Soviet archaeologists conducted excavations of Mesopotamian villages occupied from preagricultural times through the beginnings of early civilization. The results of their work were published primarily in Soviet journals and in the English-language journals Sumer and Iraq. This volume brings together translations of these Russian articles along with newly commissioned work to make the results of this research accessible for the first time to the Western world. In addition to eight articles available here for the first time in English, a concluding chapter by Norman Yoffee offers new insights on cultural interaction based on the research at hand. The research conducted by the Soviets helped transform… Leer más

Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1966. 191 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, maps; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. CONTENTS: Preface; Chronological Chart; Map; Introduction, by Rudolf Wittkower; I Style--East and West, by J. Le Roy Davidson; II Confrontations and Far-Eastern Anticipations, by Theodore Bowie; III Cultural Diffusion from An-Yang to the Danube, by William Samolin; IV The Art of the Silk Route, by Jane Gaston Mahler; V Iran between East and West, by Dorothy G. Shepherd; VI Cultural and Artistic Interchanges in Modern Times, by Theodore Bowie; VII A Bibliography of Discovery, by Richard B. Reed; VIII Foreigner--Barbarian--Monster, by Denis Sinor; IX Iconography of the Universal Hero, by Theodore Bowie; Index.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Mayflower Books, 1980. Cloth, 367 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to tail cap. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated (art, architecture), with scholarly entries by leading authorities.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Istanbul: Keskin, 1995. 64 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Greco-Roman ruins at Ephesus. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Guidebook.

Florence and Istanbul: Casa Editrice Bonechi; NET Turistik Yayinlar, 1993. 63 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Graeco-Roman antiquities in Turkey. With 90 Colour Illustrations.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Istanbul: Keskin, 1997. 64 pages, colour illustrations, map; 25 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Guidebook.

Istanbul: Keskin, 2011. 64 pages, colour illustrations, map; 25 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

Antalya, Turkey: Guney Books, 2012. 72 pages, colour illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Guidebook.

Austin, TX: University Art Museum, University of Texas at Austin, 1975. 95 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Exhibition held at the University Art Museum, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, January 12 to March 16, 1975; the University Art Museum, the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 1 to May 2, 1975. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's signature/inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. ..

San Francisco and New York: HarperSanFrancisco; American Museum of Natural History, 1993. Cloth, 239 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 32 cm. Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 1, Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1968. Cloth, xvi, 266 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 30 cm. Photographs by Hans Hinz. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with a sun stripe parallel to the spine on the front cover & light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2000. xviii, 164 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Classic anthropology.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. Pictorial boards, 32, [20] pages, frontispiece, illustrations; 31 x 29 cm. Edition of 5000 copies. A good copy, worn along the spine. Boards lightly soiled. No ownership markings. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated with photos of thte Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II by the noted American Precisionist painter & photographer Charles Sheeler. CONTENTS: The standard inscription of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.); The Assyrian phenomenon: an introductory essay, by Susanna Hare.; The palace and reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II, by Edith Porada.; References (p. 20); Plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Good. 4to.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This book recounts the influence of Greek communities and their culture across Central Asia, India and Western China, from the Bronze Age through the rise of Islam." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Greece and the east: beginnings. Eastern origins; Greeks going east; Greeks and Achaemenid Persia. The confrontation; Greeks in the Persian Empire; The view from home; The view from Homeric heritage; Greeks and Alexander "the Great." The invasion of the Persian Empire; Into Asia; The Hellenistic heritage: 3rd to 1st centuries BC; The new Greek kingdoms in the east. The kingdoms; Their cities and art; Their coinage; Greeks and their arts in Central Asia. Greeks and nomads: Scythians, Sarmatians; The Yuehzhi and Tillya Tepe; The farther east; Greeks and their arts in India. The Mauryans and Buddhism; The Sunga… Leer más

New York: Italica Press, 1986. xxxvi, 108 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Historical Travel Series. Translation of: Libellus de locis sanctis. Translated by Aubrey Stewart; with new introduction and bibliography by Ronald G. Musto. Tight, clean copy.. 2nd. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1975. Cloth, 206 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Map on lining papers. Ancient peoples and places, vol. 83. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket age toned. CONTENTS: Background and environment; Who were the Hittites?; The Hittites and their neighbours; Daily life in late bronze age Anatolia; Warfare and defence; Society and administration; Religion; Art and literature.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Jewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1982. 136 pages, illustrations (some colour), map, plans; 28 cm. Exhibition Catalogue. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: The Iron Age; The Second Temple Period; Epilogue: Early Synagogues and Jewish Symbols. Profusely illustrated with ancient ceramics and other archaeological artifacts from the Ratner collection.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Vendome Press in association with the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1994. Cloth, 210 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 33 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Jerusalem has captivated the world for over 2000 years. This book surveys the revered city's architecture, from the earliest remnants of old Judea, Rome, and Byzantium, through the glories of Islam and the Crusader kingdom, to the pragmatically conceived neighbourhoods built outside Suleiman the Magnificent's 16th-century ramparts, in the years since World War I." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Three thousand years of history and urban development, by Ralph Mandel; The old city: urban structure and texture; Dense and introspective architecture The city from 100 BC through the Ottoman Empire: a study of remnants; The old city in modern times: preservation and… Leer más

New York: Random House, 1995. xiv, 256 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), maps; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Jerusalem: An Archaeological Biography traces the turbulent history of the Holy City on the 3,000th anniversary of its establishment by King David as the capital of Israel. The reader will follow archaeologists as they discover where Jesus was buried, what Solomon's Temple looked like, and how David captured the city. Here, too, is the painful evidence of the city's repeated destruction - by the Babylonians, led by the rapacious Nebuchadnezzar, and then by the Romans, under Titus. This comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-the-minute account debunks many long-standing theories: Solomon's Stables were not built by Solomon, nor were they a stable, and the Garden of Gethsemane, where Judas betrayed Jesus and where Jesus was… Leer más