Results for: Archaeology
Homol'ovi : An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster.
Adams, E. Charles.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has some wear along edges with minor damage/dents on heel of spine, a crease on lower corner of front inner flap, and some scuffing to covers. Name and number written in blue ink on front free endpaper. 304 pages with maps, tables, illustrations, list of references, and index. A study of a group of Hopi villages along the Little Colorado River.
Price: $30.00
Fouilles de Conimbriga. VI: Ceramiques Diverses et Verres.
Alarcao, Jorge; Manuela Delgado; Fracoise Mayet; Adilia Moutinho Alarcao; and Salete da Ponte.
Paris: Diffusion E. De Boccard, 1976.
Very good folio-sized (oversized) hardcover in maroon cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Some scuffing to covers. 258 pages with footnotes, plates. illustrations, map, bibliography, and indices. Special shipping rates for this book due to its size.
Price: $70.00
Tezaurul de la Pietroasa. Opere IV. [ The Treasure of Pietroasa ].
Alexandru Odobescu. Mircea Babes.
Bucuresti, 1976..
Good, thick, folio sized (oversized) hardcover without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and the corners of the panels. Light fading along the spine and some scuffing to the covers. Some light browning and light foxing to the edges of the pages. Name of the previous owner on the front free endpaper. Page 1073 is unattached but laid in. Pages 1075-1079 are loose but still attached and webbing is visible. 1079 pages with illustrations (some in color) and notes. Special shipping rates for this massive tome. A 1976 reprint of the 1900 history of the Treasure of Pietroasa by the revolutionary Romanian writer and historian/archaeologist Odobescu. The introduction is in Romanian, the text itself in French.
Price: $275.00
Monumental Islamic Calligraphy from India.
Begley, W. E.
Villa Park: Islamic Foundation, 1985..
First edition. Very good softcover with illustrated wrapper. Some wear and rubbing to the edges of the covers with some scuffing. Small crease on the lower corner of the back cover. 144 pages with illustrations, 2 appendices (1. list of articles published in Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica and Epigraphia Indica, Arabic, and Persian Supplement, 2. Arabic and Persian texts of the inscriptions), and index of Koranic passages. A catalogue of various inscriptions done by Muslim rulers in India.
Price: $25.00
La Residence Aristocratique de Montmartin (Oise) du III au II S. av. J.-C. Documents d'Archaeologie Francaise 64.
Brunaux, Jean-Louis, and Patrice Meniel.
Paris: 1997..
First edition. Very good oversized softcover. Stamp of previous owner on inside of front cover with faint staining on opposite page (half-title). Some light wear to the edges of the wrappers with slight scratching and scuffing to the covers themselves. 270 pages with figures. A work on French/Belgian archaeology on the Gauls and their class of equites with the text being in French.
Price: $30.00
Navigation et Milieu Fluvial au XI S. L'epave d'Orlac. (Charente-Maritime). Documents d'Archaeologie Francaise, 48.
Chapelot, Jean, and Eric Rieth.
Paris: 1995..
First edition. Very good oversized softcover. Stamp of previous owner on dedication page. Some light wear to the edges of the wrappers with slight scratching and scuffing to the covers themselves. 165 pages with figures. A work on French archaeology, especially boats and ships, with the text being in French.
Price: $25.00
Museum Buildings V. 1. A Planning Study.
Coleman, Laurence Vail.
Washington D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1950..
1st edition. Folio. Very good in creme cloth w/o dust jacket. Slight scuffing to covers. Spine and edge of front cover a bit darkened. 298 p. w/illustrations, list of museum buildings built between 1814-1949, index. Scarce classic work on museum construction and planning. Only v. 1 appears to have been printed.
Price: $125.00
Lines That Divide : Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender.
Delle, James A., editor.
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with minor roll to spine. Dj has light wear along edges and some scuffing to covers. 328 pages with illustrations, maps, tables, references, and index. A collection of essays on the findings of historical archaeology on racism, gender bias, and social boundaries.
Price: $25.00
Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns, Orchomenos: Heinrich Schliemann: The 100th Anniversary of His Death.
Demakopulou, Katie, editor.
Athens: Athens National Archaeological Museum, 1990.
Very good softcover in purple glossy wrapper. Light wear and rubbing to edges of covers with light scuffing and a small nick on lower edge of front cover. 389 pages with illustrations, notes, and map. A catalogue and articles based on an exhibition for the noted archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann.
Price: $30.00
Hazorea I : A Joint Research Project of Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici, Italy, Tel Aviv University and Beth Wilfrid Museum of Hazorea, Israel.
Emmanuel Anati, Moshe Avnimelech, Nicu Haas, and Ezra Meyerhof.
1973.
Good quarto-sized softcover. Wear and rubbing to edges of covers with creasing to upper corner of front cover and on both corners of back cover. Upper corners of pages. 160 pages with maps, illustrations, references, and indices.
Price: $30.00
Archaeology of the Frobisher Voyages.
Fitzhugh, William W., and Jacqueline S. Olin, editors.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993..
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with some minor scuffing to covers. 271 pages with illustrations, tables, 4 appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. A collection of essays on the archaeology and antiquities of the Frobisher Bay region in Canada.
Price: $20.00
Guardian of the Trail: Archeological and Historical Investigations at Fort Craig. Cultural Resources Series, No. 15.
Gerow, Peggy A.
Santa Fe: Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, 2004..
First edition. Very good over sized softcover with illustrated covers. Light wear to edges of covers with minor creasing to corners and slight scuffing to covers. Clean, unmarked text and tight binding. 452 pages with illustrations, maps, tables, references, and 4 appendices.
Price: $45.00
The Great Maya Droughts : Water, Life, and Death.
Gill, Richardson Benedict.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
Light wear to edges of covers with light scuffing to covers. Tag taped to heel of spine. Red number written on inside of front cover. Otherwise, clean, unmarked text. Tight binding. 464 pages with figures, tables, bibliography, and index. A detailed examination of the role of the climate and atmospheric changes that created prolong draughts in the Maya region and led to the fall of that civilization.
Price: $25.00
Sacred Time, Sacred Place : Archaeology and the Religion of Ancient Israel.
Gittlen, Barry M., editor.
Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2002.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards and minor scuffing to covers. Slight bump/bend on upper corner of back cover. Upper corners of pages are lightly stained. 228 pages with maps, illustrations, footnotes, and 2 indices. A collection of 12 essays seeking to blend the work f archaeologists with that of biblical scholars.
Price: $30.00
Fasti Archaeologici, Annual Bulletin of Classical Archaeology I: 1946.
Grenier, A. Frank E. Brown.
Firenze: Sansoni, 1948.
Good quarto-sized hardcover with cream-grey colored cloth spine and corners on blue boards without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along edges of boards with bumping on corners of boards and heel of spine with some scuffing to covers including two light white marks on back cover. Some browning on edges of boards and along spine. Page edges are lightly browned. 404 pages with illustrations, foldout maps, and index. A source of materials on archaeological projects on Greco-Roman History.
Price: $60.00
Bibracte, Bibliograpie et Plans Anciens. Documents d'Archaeologie Francaise 57.
Guillaumet, Jean-Paul.
Paris: 1996..
First edition. Very good oversized softcover. Stamp of previous owner on inside of front cover with faint staining on opposite page (half-title). Some light wear to the edges of the wrappers with slight scratching and scuffing to the covers themselves. 167 pages with figures. "This volume presents over 400 descriptive bibliographical notices of articles published between 1840 and 1991 as well as the manuscripts of 70 plans and surveys carried out between 1627 and 1914" (back cover blurb). The text of this work is in French.
Price: $45.00
Memorie Volume XVI, 2. Die Heidnische Nekropole unter St. Peter in Rom, Die Mausoleen E -I und Z - PSI.
Harald Mielsch and Henner von Hesberg.
Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995..
First edition. Very good folio sized (oversized) softcover in original grey wrapper. Some wear and rubbing along the edges of the covers with tear/abrasion just above the heel of the spine. Some creasing to the corners of the covers, mainly on the lower corner of the back cover. Some the pages have not been cut along their upper edges. 275 pages with a number of plates and notes. Nice work in German on a necropolis under St. Peters in Rome examining a number of mausoleums. Scarce.
Price: $200.00
Marseille, les ateliers de potiers du XIIIe s. et le quartier Sainte-Barbe (Ve-XVIIe s.). 65 Documents d'Archeologie Francaise.
Henri Marchesi, Jacques Thiriot, Lucy Vallauri, Marie Leenhardt.
Paris: 1997..
Very good oversized softcover with illustrated gold-yellow cover. Some wear and rubbing along the edges of the covers with bump to the heel of the spine and slight tear in same location. Covers have some light scuffing. Clean, unmarked text. 389 pages with figures, tables, and bibliography. This work in French examines the archaeological digs and findings at the Saint-Barbe quarter at Marseilles, France. The focus is on pottery, kilns, and firing techniques.
Price: $95.00
The Artificial Islets/Crannogs of the Central Inner Hebrides.
Holley, Mark W.
Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2000..
First paperback edition. Very good oversized trade paperback. Wear and rubbing to edges of covers with some scuffing and some scratches on panels. 263 pages with illustrations, site plans, 11 appendices (1. survey of artificial islets of the central Hebrides, 2. Lochs in the central Inner Hebrides inspected for artificial islets, 3. place names of the central Inner Hebridean lochs, 4. calculations for the amount of stone needed to construct the average artificial islet in the central inner Hebrides, 5. table of structural characteristics of the artificial islets of the central inner Hebrides, 6. the soils of the central Inner Hebrides, 7. characteristics of the lochs of the central inner Hebrides, 8. characteristics of the artificial islets of Loch Awe and Loch Tay, 9. soils of the Loch Tay basin, 10. characteristics of islet sites in the Western Isles, 11. vertical aerial photographs consulted in the RCAHMS). and bibliography. An archaeological study of the prehistoric man-made islets in the lochs of the Central Inner Hebrides in Scotland.
Price: $65.00
Prehistoric Foraging in a Temperate Forest : A Linear Programming Model.
Keene, Arthur S.
New York, NY: Academic Press, 1981.
Very good octavo hardcover with green covers and brown spine without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. Pocket with 2 microfiche (appendices) templates attached to rear pastedown endpaper. 274 pages with figures, tables, references, index and appendices (microfiche). An archaeological/anthropological study of Native American hunter-gatherers in the Late Archaic period in southern Michigan.
Price: $40.00
God-Apes and Fossil Men : Paleoanthropology of South Asia.
Kennedy, Kenneth A. R.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. Twist to binding. 480 pages with illustrations, maps, tables, references, and 2 indices. A detailed examination of prehistoric peoples in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the rest of the Indian subcontinent.
Price: $75.00
La Pietra dei Monumenti in Ambiente Fisico e Culturale: Atti del 2 Corso Intensivo Europeo Tenuto a Ravello e a Firenze dal 10 al 24 Aprile 1994. Scienze e Materiali del Patrimonio Culturale, 2a Sessione.
Lefevre, Roger-Alexandre.
Bari: Edipuglia, 1997..
Very good, oversized softcover with illustrated wrapper. Some wear and rubbing to edges of the covers with creasing to the lower corner of the back cover. Some scuffing to the covers. Light browning along the edges of the covers. 143 pages with bibliographies, tables, and figures. A collection of essays in a variety of languages on the effects of pollution, erosion, and weathering on stone monuments and architecture of archaeological importance.
Price: $25.00
Historic Towns: Maps and Plans of Towns and Cities in the British Isles with Historical Commentaries from Earliest Times to Circa 1800. Volume One (1).
Lobel, M. D. editor.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, [1969]..
1st edition. Near ine in very good dust jacket and slipcase. Oversized, small elephant folio. Slight wear to bottom edges of binding. Dj has slight wear at edges and a 1/2 inch tear at lower right front corner. Sturdy brown cardboard slipcase has some wear and scuffing to edges and corners. Many maps, some in color covering the following locations: Banbury (P. D. A. Harvey), Caernarvon (H. Carter), Glasgow (J. H. Kellett), Gloucester (M. D. Lobel and J. Tann), Hereford (M. D. Lobel), Nottingham (M. W. Barley and I. F. Straw), Reading (C. F. Slade), Salisbury (K. H. Rogers). The first, excellent volume of a long term cartographic project sponsored by the Historic Towns Trust. A major reference work.
Price: $125.00
Une ferme de L'Armorique Gauloise. Le Boisanne a' Plouer-sur-Rance (Cotes-d'Armor). Documents d'Archaeologie Francaise 58.
Menez, Yves.
Paris: 1996..
First edition. Very good oversized softcover. Stamp of previous owner on inside of front cover with faint staining on opposite page (half-title). Some light wear to the edges of the wrappers with slight scratching and scuffing to the covers themselves. 267 pages with figures. A work on French archaeology on the Iron Age farm at Le Boisanne. The text of this work is in French.
Price: $30.00
Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe.
Muir, Edward, and Guido Ruggiero, editors. Translated by Eren Branch.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991..
1st edition. Very good hardcover without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of the boards and light scuffing to covers. 204 pages with endnotes after each essay. A collection of 8 articles on various aspects of European history. Articles included are "The Name and the Game: Unequal Exchange and the Historiographic Marketplace," by Carlo Ginzburg and Carlo Poni; "The Dovecote Has Opened Its Eyes," by Carlo Ginzburg and Marco Ferrari; "Ritual Pillages: A Preface to Research in Progress, " by Carlo Ginzburg; "The Ox's Bones and the Ox's Hide: A Popular Myth, Part Hagiography and Part Witchcraft," by Maurizio Bertolotti; "The Kings of the Dead on the Battlefield of Agnadello," by Ottavia Niccoli; "Jews, the Local Church, the 'Prince' and the People" Two Late Fifteenth-Century Episodes Involving the Destruction of Sacred Images," by Michele Luzzati; "The Political System of a Community in Liguria: Cervo in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries," by Edoardo Grendi; and "Unwed Mothers in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Clinical Histories and Life Histories," by Gianna Pomata.
Price: $25.00
Paleoethnobotany : A Handbook of Procedures.
Pearsall, Deborah M.
San Diego: Academic Press, 1989.
Very good octavo hardcover in forest green binding without dust jacket. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with light bumping to head and heel of spine. Minor scuffing to covers. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. 470 pages with illustrations, tables, figures, references, and index. A study of archaeological examinations of plant remains.
Price: $65.00
Palaeoethnobotany : The Prehistoric Food Plants of the Near East and Europe.
Renfrew, Jane M.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1973.
Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges with minor scuffing and browning to covers. Name of previous owner written in ink on front free endpaper. Page edges are browned slightly. 248 pages plus 48 plates with maps, illustrations, bibliography, glossary, and index. A study of prehistoric plant remains.
Price: $65.00
The Evolution of Homo Erectus: Comparative Anatomical Studies of an Extinct Human Species.
Rightmire, G. Philip.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Good trade paperback. Light wear and rubbing along edges of covers with some light scuffing. Upper edges of first few pages have slight waterstaining on upper edges. Name of previous owner written on half-title page. Otherwise, text is clean and unmarked. Tight binding. 260 pages with illustrations, tables, references, and 2 indices. A study of the fossil remains of Homo Erectus.
Price: $15.00
Archaeological Variation within the Middle Rio Bonito. Cultural Resources Series No. 14.
Shelley, Phillip H., and Kristen E. Wenzel, editors.
Santa Fe: Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, 2002..
Very good, oversized softcover with blue illustrated wrapper. Some wear to edges of the covers with creasing to the lower corner of the back cover. Some scuffing to the covers. 221 pages with tables, figures, and references. A study of some recent finds at the sites along the Rio Bonito in New Mexico.
Price: $25.00
The Historical Archaeology of Long Island: Volume VII: Part 1 - The Sites. Readings in Long Island Archaeology and Ethnohistory.
Stone, Gaynell, and Donna Ottusch-Kianka, editors.
Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1985..
First edition. Very good over sized softcover with illustrated covers. Light wear to edges of covers with minor creasing to front cover's lower edge and some scuffing to covers. Printer's stamp on inside of front cover. Clean, unmarked text and tight binding. 352 pages with tables, maps, illustrations, and bibliography.
Price: $40.00
