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BRITISH MUSEUM
A Guide to the Egyptian Galleries (Sculpture). BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 39 plates and 46 photographs and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original printed boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE
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MAITLAND Charles
The Church in the Catacombs. A Description of the Primitive Church of Rome, illustrated by Sepulchral Remains.
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, title-vignette, very numerous woodcut illustrations and facsimiles in the text and a large folding engraved plate, some mild age-browning to text; original brown cloth, boards with elaborate decorative frame border in blind, gilt back, uncut, yellow endpapers, covers lightly age-marked, fore-edges mildly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. An important study of the catacombs of Rome. The work is dedicated to Hawtrey of Eton. SCARCE.
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WEIGALL A.E.P.
The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plate and 23 plates in monochrome, moderate to heavy foxing throughout; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, covers mildly age-soiled else a good, firm copy.
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HOSKINS W.G.
Fieldwork in Local History. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Important pioneer study compiled when Hoskins was Hatton Professor of English History at Leicester. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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BURL Aubrey
The Stone Circles of the British Isles. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, diagrams and plan in the text; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Nice copy of the standard reference.
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KNOWLES David K.
Monastic Sites from the Air. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with title in blue and black, 138 fine photographs (the majority full-page) in the text and a full-page map, free endpapers lightly spotted; original blue buckram, gilt back, bevelled boards, a very good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter creased and frayed at edges, rubbed at fold-ins and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip
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FOREMAN Martin
Further Excavations at the Dominican Priory, Beverley 1986-89. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio First Edition with numerous plates illustrations plans and diagrams (a number folding); blue cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sheffield Excavation Reports 4.
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CUNLIFFE Bruce
Excavations at Fishbourne, 1961. First Interim Report. NEAR FINE COPY
4to. with plates and three plans (2 folding); printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued a near fine copy. Offprinted from The Antiquaries Journal vol. XLII Part I.
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WACHER John
The Towns of Roman Britain. Second Edition, fully revised. FINE COPY
4to. Best Edition with very numerous illustrations maps and plans in the text; original pictorial wrappers a fine copy. First published by Batsford in 1975 Wacher's renowned study established itself almost immediately as the new standard reference. This is the substantially revised and updated edition taking into account the significant advances in urban archaeology and
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CERAM C. W.
Gods, Graves and Scholars. The Story of Archaeology. Introduced by John Romer. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with 48 pages of coloured and monochrome plates and patterned endpapers; patterned blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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BRITISH MUSEUM
Flint Implements. An Account of Stone Age Techniques and Cultures. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 9 plates, illustrations in the text and 3 large folding tables, page edges tanning slightly, neat signature on front free endpaper; original printed boards, red cloth back lettered in black, backstrip lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BRION Marcel
Pompeii and Herculaneum. The Glory and the Grief. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers; oatmeal holland, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip.
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MEACHAM William
Rock Carvings in Hong Kong. An illustrated and interpretative Study. BRIGHT COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, oriental name on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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STENBERGER Marten
Oland under Aldre Jarnaldern. en Bebyggelsehistorisk Undersokning. NEAR FINE COPY
Folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs, diagrams and plans in the text, and 2 large folding maps coloured in outline; printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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JONES Gareth Lovett
Railway Walks. Exploring Disused Railways. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with photographs and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WARD John
The Roman Era in Britain. [Antiquary's Books]. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 77 illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Published in the valuable and authoritative 'Antiquary's Books' series. Bonser 86.
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LEEDS E.T.
Early Anglo-Saxon Art and Archaeology. Being the Rhind Lectures delivered in Edinburgh 1935. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, 32 plates and numerous illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at edges. THIS COPY BEARS THE PICTORIAL BOOKPLATE OF THE GEOFFREY AND AUDREY BLACKMAN BEQUEST ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1936.
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POULTER G.C.B.
The Corbould Genealogy. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), coloured plate, illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; brown board, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, white faux-vellum back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Thomson (1976), p.42.
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BLINKENBERG Chr
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Danemark. Facsicule 2 [THIS FASCICULE ONLY]. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED; IN ORIGINAL PORTFOLIO WITH TIES INTACT
Folio, First Edition, text in French, with a fine coloured plate and numerous plates in monochrome; original portfolio with boards printed in red and black, cloth back with printed paper label, ribbon ties intact, a very good, bright, clean copy. Facsicule 2 comprises text pp. 32-76 and plates 49-96, covering Classes IIIA: Vases Myceniens; IIB et IID, IIIB: Styles geometriques grecs; IIIG et H: Styles geometriques beotiens et attiques; IID et III: Styles grecs orientalisants; II et III: Vases-figurines grecs de style archaique; IIIA et C: Vases argivo-corinthiens. This copy also includes plates 5 and 6 (one leaf) and coloured plate 7 (Louvre IID), apparently from Facsicule 1. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY.
The Journal of Industrial Archaeology. Volumes 1-3. [later] Industrial Archaeology. The Journal of the History of Industry and Technology. THE FIRST THREE VOLUMES
3 vols., in 2, 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates and illustrations throughout; strongly bound in navy buckram, gilt backs, a fine run.
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COTTRELL Leonard
The Bull of Minos. The Discoveries of Schliemann and Evans. With a new Introduction by Peter Levi. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers; blue tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lavishly illustrated reissue of Cottrell's classic, first published in 1953.
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READ] [C.H.
A Guide to the Antiquities of The Stone Age in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 9 plates and 142 illustrations in the text; original printed boards, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition.
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DAVIDSON David
A Connected History of Early Egypt, Babylonia and Central Asia. An Original Co-Ordination of the Evidences by modern Methods of Graphical Analysis and Narrative Sequence. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH A.L.s
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with large foldin map as frontispiece, 30 large folding charts and numerous tables in the text; black cloth, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A T.L. on author's business stationery to the named recipient, ANNOTATED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, is loosely inserted. PROBABLY A UNIQUE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE WORK.
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LETHABY W.R.
London before the Conquest. [First and Sole Edition]. LONDON BETWEEN ROMANS AND NORMANS
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map, very numerous illustrations (3 full-page) and 2 full-page maps in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; red buckram gilt, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned as often else a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement bound in at end. The first authoritative treatment of the topography of the capital between the Romans and the Conquest.
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RIMMER Alfred
Ancient Stone Crosses of England. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 72 wood-engravings in the text; pictorial green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, bevelled boards, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Although somewhat less detailed than Vallance's 'Old Crosses and Lychgates' (1920) this most attractive study is charmingly illustrated by the author
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MORTON H. V.
In the Steps of St. Paul. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece and 23 sepia-toned plates (including 8 double-page panoramas) and endpaper maps, fore-edges lightly spotted; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. This early work is remarkably hard to find in the dustwrapper, designed by E.A. Cox. Fields & Devenish 23.
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HENSHALL Audrey Shore
The Chambered Tombs of Scotland. [Complete set]. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, many full-page and smaller illustrations, plans and diagrams in the text, and 2 large folding maps in pocket at end of second volume, free endpapers lightly spotted; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference.
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THOM A.
Megalithic Sites in Britain. [Second Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece coloured in outline and numerous diagrams in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at edges. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. The standard reference, first published in 1967.
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ANDRONICOS Manolis
Vergina. The Royal Tombs and the Ancient City. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WUNDERLICH Professor Hans Georg
The Secret of Crete. Translated from the German by Richard Winston. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The German edition appeared I 1972.
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JAMES T.G.H.
Egypt Revealed. Artist-Travellers in an Antique Land. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Roy., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured title-vignette, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout, and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and green, a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
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HOGG A.H.A.
Hill-Forts of Britain. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and plans in the text; terracotta cloth, gilt back, buff endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TICCIH2000.
The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage Millenium Congress. 2000. Transactions. Edited by Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in English and French, with numerous photographs, illustrations, plans and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY.
A short run as follows: Vol. 7-9 [10 numbers in all]. [The Journal of the History of Industry and Technology.] SHORT RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
11 numbers, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, plans and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, all very good, bright, clean copies. Sold from an institution with neat stamp on wrappers. The run comprises: Vol. VII (3 parts as published); Vol. 8 (4 parts as published); Vol. 9 (3 parts as published).
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INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY REVIEW.
A fine long run as follows: Vol. VII -Vol. XXXV [55 numbers in all]. [The House Journal of the Association for Industrial Archaeology.] FINE LONG RUN
55 numbers, 8vo. and roy.8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, plans and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine run. The run comprises: Vol. VII-XVIII (2 parts per volume as published); Vols. XIX-XX (1 part per volume as published); Vols. XXI-XXXIV (2 parts per volume as published); Vol. XXV (first part only). COMPLETE RUNS OF THIS LENGTH ARE SCARCE.
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LEPPER Frank
Trajan's Column. A New Edition of the Cichorius Plates. [With] Introduction, Commentary and Notes. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and large folding map; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
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CHILDE V. Gordon
Skara Brae. A Pictish Village in Orkney. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with coloured plan, 62 plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; original oatmeal buckram, gilt back, brown top, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WILSON Roger J.A
A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain. With a Foreword by Professor J M C Toynbee. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and diagrams in the text, and endpaper maps; original brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. The first appearance of this handy (but deceptively detailed) standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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PEGGE Mr.
Observations on Stone Hammers. By. Mr. Pegge. Read at the Society of Antiquaries, 8 November 1770. ORIGINAL PAPER FROM ARCHAELOGIA II
5pp, sm. folio, on laid paper, with two engraved images on one plate; disbound, uncut, a very good, crisp, clean copy. 3 leaves plus one plate extracted from Archaeologia Vol. II, XXIV; pp. 124-128.
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BEAN George E.
Aegean Turkey [with] Turkey's Southern Shore [with] Turkey Beyond the Maeander [with] Lycian Turkey. BEAN'S TURKEY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerpus plates and maps, small, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper of final volume; black cloth, gilt backs, yellow tops, a near fine set in dustwrapper (one wrapper price-clipped). Bean's invaluable archaeological survey comprises: Aegean Turkey (1966), Turkey's Southern Shore (1968), Turkey Beyond the Maeander (1971) and LycIan Turkey (1978). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS.
A good run as follows: No.155-166 [12 numbers in all]. [The Bulletin of the Association for Industrial Archaeology.] SMALL RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
12 numbers, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, plans and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine run. The run comprises: Nos. 155-166 (Winter 2010 to Autumn 2013 complete).
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DEMIDOFF Paul
Some Account of certain Tartarian Antiquities [with] Observations on Antiquities described in the preceding Article. In a Letter from Paul Demidoff, at Petersburgh, to Peter Collinson, dated 17 September 1764. Read at the Society of Antiquaries, 5 February 1767 and 26 February 1767. IN MODERN BOARDS
2 works in one vol., together 14pp., 4to., Fiirst Edition, on laid paper, with 7 fine engraved plates (one folding), final leaf present in photofacsimile; modern boards, upper board with printed paper label, uncut, a bright, crisp copy. Extracted from Archaeologia, vol. II.
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PASSARINI F
Observations on an Inscription at Spello. Read at the Society of Antiquaries, 1771. IN MODERN BOARDS
7pp. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with engraved plate and illustration in the text, final leaf present in photofacsimile; modern boards, upper board with printed paper label, uncut, a bright, crisp copy. Extracted from Archaeologia, vol. II.
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WRAY Daniel
Observations on a Greek Inscription brought from Athens. Read at the Society of Antiquaries, 18 April 1771. IN MODERN BOARDS
8pp. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with engraved plate and illustration in the text, final leaf present in photofacsimile; modern boards, upper board with printed paper label, uncut, a bright, crisp copy. Extracted from Archaeologia, vol. II.
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MEATES Lt.-Col. G.W.
The Roman Villa at Lullingstone, Kent. Volume I: The Site. Monograph Series of the Kent Archaelogical Society No. I. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates in monochrome and numerous plans (a number folding); navy buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Monograph Series of the Kent Archaelogical Society No. I. Bennett (Supp.) p.198.
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HUBBARD Arthur John
Neolithic Dew-Ponds and Cattle-Ways. [Second Edition, with new Preface.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, joints mildly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1904.
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SUSSEX INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY.
Sussex Industrial History. Nos. 9-11, 17, 19-20, 22-28, 30-38, 40-43, 47-49. NEAR FINE INTERRUPTED RUN
29 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine interrupted run.
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GREENWOOD John
The Industrial Archaeology and Industrial History of South Western England. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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JESSUP R. F.
The Archaeology of Kent. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, illustrations and maps in the text, and large folding map on japon at end; original series binding of navy cloth, sides framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, fore-edge mildly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the series 'County Archaeologies', the work is complete in itself. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett p.184.
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YADIN Yigael
Masada. Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand. [Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Pearlman. First English Edition] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition thus, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page), coloured maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The standard single-volume reference by the director of the world--famous excavations. The author was both Professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew Univerrsity in Jerusalem, and Chief of Staff, Israeli forces, at the time of Israel's War of Independence.
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