Archaeology from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(Cape Town: Struik, 2006) 9781770072572. 208 x 147 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 88, incl. index; full-colour artwork and photographs. Earlier bookseller's hand-stamp to title page; light wear; trace of foxing. Very good condition. "The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site tells us more about the history of our earliest ancestors than any place of comparable size elsewhere in the… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Constable, 2003) 1841196975. 8vo; original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. xxi + (i) + 440, incl. index; plates; maps; diagrams; graphs. Trace of curl to edges of dustwrapper; light bump to bottom fore-corner of upper board. Very good condition. "In a brilliant synthesis of new genetic, archaeological and climatic evidence, Stephen… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2015) 9781868426782. Foreword by Pippa Skotnes. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pp. (viii) + 117 + (i); profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs. Fine condition. "Human archaeology in southern Africa has since its beginnings been implicated in the projects of evolutionism and biological racism. Nick Shepherd's delvings into the underground of the discipline are part… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Double Storey, 2006) 1770130403. 234 x 180 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. 168, incl. index; maps; lavishly illustrated in full colour. Wrappers very slightly rubbed and sunned, with trace of curl to edges; light foxing to inner wrappers. Very good condition. "Africa occupies a very special position in the origin and development of humankind. ... Like the… Saber más sobre este artículo

(New York: Academic Press, 1974) 0127857591. Studies in Archeology Series. 4to; grey pictorial cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 518 (including index); figures and tables. Slightest wear to extremities of boards; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "I have attempted to take the best of the literature, extract from it what seems to me to be the most useful… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Bloemfontein: National Museum, 1970). National Museum Memoir No. 5. Edition limited to 500 copies. 4to; original green cloth, lettered in black on upper cover; pp. vii + (i) + 172; numerous line drawings, tables, photographs, maps, including folding. Cloth slightly stippled; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition. "This volume completes… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: Purnell, 1971) 36000105X. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in white on spine and upper cover; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 170, incl. index; many photographs, some of which in full colour. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel; bump to top edge of upper board; earlier owner's name and inscription to front free endpaper; some tape marks to endpapers. Good… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Frank Cass, 1971) 0714618853. Cass Library of African Studies, African Prehistory No. 3. The first edition was published in 1906. This new edition has a new introductory note by Professor Brian Fagan. 4to; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 106, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and edgeworn; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown;… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Bloemfontein: National Museum, 1972). National Museum Memoir No. 6. Edition limited to 1000 copies. 4to; original green cloth, lettered in black on upper cover; pp. vii + (i) + 288; numerous line drawings, tables, maps. Fore-corners of boards a bit bumped; a little foxing to endpapers and edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good to very good condition. 'The primary aim… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: David Philip, 1978) 0949968692. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 160, incl. index; profusely illustrated with maps, diagrams, charts, photographs, incl. full-colour. Boards rubbed; tape repair to upper joint; earlier owner's name signed on front pastedown; a little foxing. Good condition. "Despite the advances made in recent years by archaeologists, not many people other than specialists are… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Hove: Wayland, 1996) 0750214341. 4to; laminated pictorial boards; pp. 48; liberally illustrated with full-colour photographs and period artwork. Very good condition. "Two well-known legends; that of the Trojan Horse, used to break the siege of the city of Troy, and of the terrible Minotaur, the half-bull, half-man creature living in its Labyrinth, came from the wonderful Greek world that flourished… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: James Currey / Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1990) 0852550650. 231 x 155 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. vi + 378, incl. index; illustrations; maps. A little sunned on spine; earlier owner's bookplate inside upper cover; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "This is the first history of the development of the subject which is the major source… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Munich: Prestel, 2001) 3791525817. 4to; original red boards, lettered in black on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; decorative endpapers; pp. 128; lavishly illustrated. Dustwrapper somewhat rubbed and edgeworn. Very good condition. "This stunning volume examines jewels and gemstones over a period of over 8000 years. Presented here are outstanding works of art from all over the world… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Jonathan Cape, 1996) 0224037714. Cover title reads: African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity. 8vo; original turquoise boards, lettered in cream on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiii + (v) + 267, incl. index; artwork, diagrams, charts and maps in text. Some fox spots to edges. Very good condition. "The theory of an African genesis… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Bergström + Boyle Books, 1980) 0903767309. 4to; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 96, incl. index; map; photographs; floor-plans; line drawings; diagrams. Dustwrapper partially sunned; spine slightly cocked; some foxing to top edge. Very good condition. "During the four centuries of the Roman occupation of Britain the structure and… Saber más sobre este artículo

(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984) 0297785451. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 224, incl. index; plates; map. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel; trace of spotting to edges and endpapers. Very good condition. "In the summer of 1935, during her first visit to East Africa, Mary Leakey, then just 22 years… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: John Malherbe, 1974) 0869660853. 8vo; original orange boards, lettered in white on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 170; line drawings; maps. Ex-library copy, with code sticker to tail of spine panel, and codes, hand-stamps and label/pocket scars elsewhere; edges rubbed; tape remnants to reverse of dustwrapper. Fair condition. Afrikaans text. "In 1940 het vier seuns… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Pietermaritzburg: The Natal Museum Council, 1986). 246 x 170 mm; card wrappers; pp. (viii) + [357-720]. Spine sunned. Very good condition. This issue is devoted to Archaeology and Natural Science, and includes the following articles: Mazel, A. D. - Mgede Shelter: a mid- and late Holocene observation in the western Biggarsberg, Thukela Basin, Natal, South Africa;… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: The South African Archaeological Society, 1946). Handbook Series No. 2. 8vo; original beige cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; pp. 151 + (i). Cloth very slightly spotted; corners turned; institutional library deaccession stamp to front pastedown; some foxing to edges and endpapers. Good to very good condition. "The present volume is intended to provide… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Cape Town: South African Museum, 1987) 0868130176. 208 x 150 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (vi) + 71; photographs; line drawings; maps; diagrams. Wrappers very slightly rubbed; hand-stamp to title page; a little light foxing. Very good condition. "Today, the south-western coast of South Africa is dry and windswept, the vegetation stunted, and few wild animals inhabit the… Saber más sobre este artículo