Sumerian Economic Texts From the Umma Archive: Sumerian and Akkadian Cuneiform Texts de Shin T. Kang

London: Duckworth [0-7156-0928-9] [1978], 1st edition. (Hardcover) 598pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, maps, charts, tables, indices. (Archaeology, Evolution, Paleoanthropology).

Paris: Ernest Thorin, 1890. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Tall 8vo. pp. XXVI, 436, [2]. Includes 2 fold-out plates and several illustrations with the text. Bound in quarter red morocco with marbled boards. Faint library blind stamp on title page and on p. 55; number lightly written on verso of title; small marginal tear on p. 171 neatly sealed. Withdrawn ticket pasted on inside front cover. Pages are lightly age toned but generally clean. On reading, reading, dating and classifying Roman Latin inscriptions.

NEW ~ A collection of fifteen essays about ceramic production in various regions of ancient Mexico. INAH COLECCION CIENTIFICA 484. First volume of five. 779pp. Illus. Photographs and drawings. Cover bent, water stain back cover and final pages. En espanol. 1000 ejemplares. 3.75 lbs. Weight may incur additional postage expense.

NEW ~ Exhibition catalogue and texts. The exhibit was organized by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia and CONACULTA. 447 pp. Illus. Color photographs throughout. Bibliography. Fine: Small dent in bottom of back cover; dust jacket worn on corners. En espanol. Over 5 lbs. weight may result in additional shipping charges.

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1978. First Edition. Folio. Deutsches Arcaelogisches Institut. Altertuemer von Pergamon. Band XII. Im anhang: Topographische Karte von Pergamon. Mit beitraege n von A. Furtwaengler und E. Toepperwein-Hoffman. 105 pp. With 24 leaves of plates and 6 folding maps. Original cloth. Good copy.

Florence: Origines: Studi e Materiali Pubblicati a cura dell'Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protoistoria, 1996. A very good clean tight copy in similar dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. Originally published in Italian in 1980 as ''Le pitture preistoriche della grotta di Porto Badisco''. Deals with the neolithic cave paintings at Porto Badisco, to the south of Otranto in the heel of Italy, which were first discovered in 1970. 180pp plus 128pp (some folding) of b&w plates (and a few in colour). Please note: this is a heavy book, weighing over 2kg, so extra postage would be required.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Printed for the Cambrian Archaeological Association by The Bedford Press. London. 1917. Royal Octavo. xvi, 371pp. Engraved portrait plate, 1 photo plate. Later quarter calf, cloth boards. Spine in six with gilt rules, lettering, embellishment and leather labels. More recent endpapers. Lightly toned, with some foxing to prelims and towards the end. Ink splash to top foredge. Slightly strained at portrait.
Richard Fenton (1747-1821), poet and topographical writer. His friends included Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, William Owen Pughe, Theophilus Jones and Sir Joshua Reynolds. "He built up a large library of books, manuscripts … and toured Wales extensively to visit prehistoric sites, many of which he excavated, and other features in the landscape. His books and journals, more tour literature than history, are entertaining reading, being an attractive mixture of accurate reporting and recording interspersed with personal descriptions of scenery and accounts of… Leer más

T. Fisher Unwin. London & Leipsic. 1913. 8vo. xii, 356pp. Photo. frontis., 45 further photo. plates. Original cloth, gilt, sl. faded, rubbed and bumped. Corner excised p 45/6 no loss. Slight foxing. Neat pencil inscription to ffep dated 1921.

Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011. No dustwrapper (as issued), slight bumping to spine ends and corners, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains twenty-six pieces by various authors on aspects of archaeology on sites wholly or partly underwater, including areas whish were dry land in the mesolithic period. Mostly deals with sites in northern Europe, but also with north America and the eastern Mediterranean areas. 338pp, colour and b&w illustration and diagrams throughout.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.