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Meaden, George T.
The Stonehenge Solution : Sacred Marriage and the Goddess
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 224pp.
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Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard
The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception : The Explosive Contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and How the Church Conspired to Suppress Them
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 268pp.
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Pyne, Stephen J.
How the Canyon Became Grand : A Short History
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to spine ends. 199pp. How America's Grand Canyon progressed from 'worthless' in the eyes of the first Spanish explorers in the sixteenth cenrury to being one of the acnowledged natural wonders of the world today.
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Marsden, Barry M
The Early Barrow-Diggers
Previous owner's neat name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 126pp. Illustrated.
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Collier, Ron
Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 2
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of handling and no bumping to corners. 192pp. This revised, updated and expanded edition tells the stories of twenty-six aircraft crashes in Derbyshire's Peak District.
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Edwards, Tudor
The Ancient Stones of England
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or creased with very slight marking to rear and small tear near top of spine. 224pp. Archaeology and English history.
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The Editor
British Caenozoic Fossils (Tertiary and Quarternary)
Ex-library copy with usual marks and stamps. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 133pp.
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The Editor
Archaeologia Cantiana : being Transactions of the Kent Archaeological Society : Volume XXX
A very small amount of underlining in ink, probably only to one page, plus a few interesting notes in pencil. Foxing to end papers and slightly to page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with lightly marked boards, rubbing with small nicks to spine ends and rubbing to corners. Clear gilt embossing to front and to spine. The fold-out maps and plans in excellent condition. The eight large maps and plans in the rear pocket all present and also in excellent condition. 95 + 340pp.
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McDermott, Bridget
Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs : How to Read the Sacred Language of the Pharaohs
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 171pp.
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Hayden, Brian
Archaeology : The Science of Once and Future Things
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 484pp. 'The best introductory archaeology book I have ever read' - University of Florida.
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Haywood, John
Ancient Civilizations of the near East and Mediterranean
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Tiny label with previous owner's heraldic mark inside front cover. 304pp.
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Minchinton, Walter
A Guide to Industrial Archaeology Sites in Britain
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with extremely faint traces of storage. 192pp. Well illustrated guide to the hundred major sites discussed in this study.
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Wilkinson, Carl (editor)
The Observer Book of the Earth
Book in 'as new' condition. 112pp. A concise study of the earth, its history, structure and minerals and the famous people who made the great discoveries about our planet.
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Stetka, Jan
From Fort to Field : The Shaping of the Landscape of Bakewell in the 10th Century
Book appears to be in mint unread condition. 104pp. The story of the rediscovery of a Saxon stronghold near Bakewell in Derbyshire and the farming which supported it. It was constructed under King Edward the Elder in AD 920 in order to secure the cooperation of the Vikings in a united England. Extremely scarce.
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Stevens, Frank
Stonehenge Today & Yesterday
A small amount of underlining in pencil and ink and bibliographic note added in ink to two pages. Previous owner's name plate inside front board. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, minor rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Every page is interleaved with a blank page, presumably for making notes - none have been so used. 91pp. Illustrated guide to Stonehenge and the thoughts on its construction and purpose from a hundred years ago. Very scarce in hardback.
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Daniel, Glyn
Megaliths in History : Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture 1972 : Presentation Copy in Slip Case
Book in as new unread condition. Slip case in excellent condition with tiny bump to one corner. 64pp. A study of megaliths. Compliments label from the Directors of Thames & Hudson inside front board of this Presentation Copy.
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Fanlac, Pierre (editor)
The Font de Gaume Cave - in Perigord
Booklet is 'as new' condition. 48pp. The history of the prehistoric cave paintings at the Font-de-Gaume cave near Les Eyzies in Perigord, France.
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Chapman, D. Emerson
Is This Your First Visit to Avebury ?
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Fold-out plan at rear in excellent condition. 15pp. History, excavations, explanations of the Avebury site. With small Avebury Tour leaflet tucked inside.
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Carver, Martin
Underneath English Towns: Interpreting Urban Archaeology
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to upper edge and a trace of fading to spine. 160pp. An introduction to the world of urban archaeology suitable for the layman, students and academics with a suggested methodology which is challengingly original.
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Birley, Eric
Corbridge Roman Station; (Corstopitum) Northumberland.
Booklet in 'as new' condition with large fold-out plan of Corbridge in excellent condition. 32pp. Guide to the Roman Station at Corbridge, to the south of Hadrian's Wall near Hexham.
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Jones, Geraint Dyfed Barri
Roman Manchester
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards with minor traces of storage, pristine contents and no bumping to corners. All fold-out drawings and illustrations in perfect condition. Duplicate copies of two fold-out drawings loosely slipped in. 32pages plates plus 198pp. Very detailed study of the Deansgate excavations which led to much more information about Manchester under Roman times.
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Moll, Roberto Garcia
The Maya World (El Mundo Maya)
Limited Edition of 3,000 copies. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper front edge and slight bumping tp rear edge. ca 220pp. A lavish study of the history of the Mayan people and culture and of their modern day descendants. Very well illustrated. Covering Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. All text in English. Very scarce.
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Wilson, Jean
The Shakespeare Legacy : Material Legacy of Shakespeare's Theatre
Name opposite half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight trace of dustiness to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 211pp. A study of Shakespeare's theatre and the theatrical presentations of Shakespeare's plays based upon archaeological and other works.
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Laing, Lloyd and Jennifer
Celtic Britain and Ireland
Book appears in virtually mint condition. 223pp. Detailed study of people, places, objects and language to bring us an understanding of the word 'Celtic'. Very well illustrated.
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McBurney, C. B. M.
The Stone Age of Northern Africa
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, very faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, some tanning to pages and no bumping to very sharp corners. 288pp. An outline of prehistoric discoveries in Northern Africa from the southern margins of the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast covering the period from the earliest traces of human activity to the end of the Stone Age. Illustrated.
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Andronicos, Manolis
Olympia
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 80pp. Very well illustrated guide, history and description of the Ancient Greek site and museums of Olympia.
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Heywood Sumner
Cuckoo Hill: The Book of Gorley
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 180pp. Leaving London behind him, the author bought some land at South Gorley, on the edge of the New Forest and converted a tumbled down cottage the Cuckoo Hill into his ideal house over 5 yrs. The archaeology and nature and life ofthe area exercised such a fascination over him that he embarked upon a remarkable private record of what is now a vanished world, handwritten and lavishly illustrated with his own superb watercolours.
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Aude De Beler Gros
Pharaohs
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little minor indenting. 124pp. A study of Ancient Egypt's Pharaohs and other parts of Egyptian society. Very well illustrated.
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Joyce A. Tyldesley
The Mummy : Unwrap the Ancient Secrets of the Mummies' Tombs
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with very light creasing to upper edge and traces of storage. 128pp. This study explores every aspect of the mythological and cultural background of mummification - the religion and rituals, the myths of Osiris and Isis and the cult of the Pharaohs.
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Archaeological Surveys Ltd.; Warrington New Town Development Corporation; Grealey, Shelagh
The Archaeology of Warrington's Past
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest of bumps to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing to corners and word indentations to front. All fold-out charts and maps in excellent condition. 100pp. Excellent study of the history of Warrington from an archaeological viewpoint. With a wealth of plans, maps and illustrations, many large-size fold-out.
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John Nowell Linton Myres; William Herbert Southern
Anglo-Saxon Cremation Cemetery at Sancton, East Yorkshire (Hull museum publications)
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Tiny crease to lower corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright very faintly marked boards, and no bumping to corners. 119pp. Fully illustrated account and study of the surviving pottery from the great Anglo-Saxin cremation cemetery at Sancton, East Yorkshire. Each piece is depicted separately in graphic form alongside its description and history. The pieces are mainly held at the Hull Museum and the Ashmolean in Oxford with a few others scattered at museums across the world. All are shown here. Very scarce.
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Roy Millward; Adrian Robinson
South East England: Channel Coastlands (Landscapes of Britain)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with label removal mark to front and well rubbed front. 208pp. A study of the evolution of the scenery of Britain considered both from the physical and historical points of view. This volumes looks at south-eastern England. There are then twelve local studies, chosen to illustrate the region in depth.
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Joseph Boughey; Charles Hadfield
Charles Hadfield: Canal Man and More
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with half-inch nick to upper rear edge and slight creasing/rubbing. 223pp. Biography of the canal historian, born in South Africa who helped to keep many of Britain's historic waterways open.
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Philip R. Davies; George J. Brooke; Phillip R. Callaway
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint marking to page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to lower rear edge. 216pp. A comprehensive and accessible account of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with numerous factfiles, reconstructions, scroll photographs and a wealth of other illustrations.
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John Man
The Terracotta Army. China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 288pp. This is the story of how and why China's Terracotta Army were put together as protection for the First Emperor in the afterlife. Illustrated.
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Leonardo B. Dal Maso and Robertp Vighi (editors)
Southern Etruria
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Now protected in fully removable plastic sleeve. 64pp. Archaeological zones of Latium I-II - Southern Etruria. Very well illustrated tourist guide to archaeological sites in the area of Italy north-west of Rome. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Raftery, Joseph
A Brief Guide to the Collection of Irish Antiquities
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with sightly foxed unmarked boards and top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Pages yellowed but consistent so this is probably the colour of the paper used. Plan plus text figures plus ten photographic plates plus 96pp. The Collection refers to the Irish historical artefacts kept in the National Museum of Ireland.
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Neil Oliver; Tony Pollard
Two Men In A Trench: Battlefield Archaeology - The Key To Unlocking The Past
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with general traces of storage. 352pp. The authors visit the site of six major battlefields from Shrewsbury to Culloden for further archaeological investigation. During this process they follow each battle, answer key questions and sometimes revise accepted versions of events. Well illustrated.
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Maurice M. Cotterell
The Lost Tomb of Viracocha: Unlocking the Secrets of the Peruvian Pyramids
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper rear cover, faint indenting to rear and traces of storage. 214pp. A study of the treasure-filled tombs of two sun kings, buried over 1,500 years ago in the long-lost pyramids of Peru.
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Carver, Martin
Underneath English Towns: Interpreting Urban Archaeology
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing and general traces of storage. 160pp. A survey of 1500 years of urban development and an introduction to the world of urban archaeology.
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Cunliffe, Barry
The Ancient Celts
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small rub inside front dust flap and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 324pp. A detailed study of the archaeological reality of the Iron Age inhabitants of barbarian Europe, tracing the emergence of chiefdoms, patterns of expansion and migration and the development of a mature 'urbanised' society, thus assessing the disparity between the traditional vision of the Celts and the archaeological evidence.
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Moran, Sarah V.
Alien Art: Extraterrestrial Expressions on Earth
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny scratch to lower front edge. 125pp. A fascinating account of enigmatic artistic and architectural mysteries throughout the world. These include the Nazca Lines, Costa Rica Balls, Sacsayhuaman's impossible stone construction, Machu Picchu. the Sphinx, Crop Circles, Mayan Crystal Skulls and many more. Very well illustrated.
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Horsler, Val
Living the Past
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 192pp. An imaginative guide to Britain's living history which draws upon re-enactments and living museums, historic sites and documents from everyday life. It covers Saxon vilages, World War One trenches and explores the pleasures and hardships of past living. Very well illustrated.
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Pearce, Terry; Mellor, Jean E.
Excavations at North Manor Farm, South Croxton, Leicestershire
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to front cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Archaeological Report No 11 from South Croxton in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire. Photographs, maps, tables, plans, charts, descriptions and drawings of the archaeological finds.
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Wheeler, Sir Mortimer
Still Digging
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. Very slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 240pp. Autobiography of distinguished archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Illustrated.
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Nevell, Michael (editor)
Warburton: Glimpses of Rural Life: the Archaoelogy and History of a Cheshire Village
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 184pp. The archaeology and history of the Cheshire village of Warburton between Altrincham and Warrington. Tucked in are two postcards of St Werburgh's Old Church in Warburton.
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Barker, Graeme & Fowkes, D.V.
The Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Volume CII 1983
No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 157pp. Features prehistoric rock art, Royston Grange, Minning Low and Little Chester excavations, Fieldwalking, Roman roads, early Saxon broach, Bradbourne Mill timbers, Calke Priory, population and tax assessments in King Charles II's time, Long Eaton education, Samuel Slater and title and benefice incomes.
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Jacquetta Hawkes
A Guide to the Prehistoric and Roman Monuments in England and Wales
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, lightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 319pp. The classic guide to the principal surviving monuments of the prehistoric and Roman inhabitants of England and Wales. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Maps including a tucked-in double sided map showing the sites of monuments for both the North area and the South area.
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Colin Tudge
The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 262pp. An account of the discovery of 'Ida', the most complete early primate fossil ever found and how this has changed what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.
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Dukszto, Aneta & Arguedas, Jose (editors)
Secrets and Mysteries ; Nasca Lines
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 31pp. Very well illustrated account of the Nasca Lines in Peru plus Paracas and the Inca Ruins of Tambo Colorado.
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