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Layard, Austen H.
Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
Contains black and white plates. 23.5x16 cm. XVI+586 pages. Leather hardcover. Spine slightly torn. Front cover partly detached.Cover edges bumped. Front white page slightly torn. Else in good condition, PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Layard, A. Henry (Sir; G.S.B.; Austen)
Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia [FIRST EDITION]. Includes a residence among the Bakhtiyari and other wild tribes before the discovery of Nineveh. With Maps and Illustrations.
FIRST EDITION of a RARE TWO VOLUME record of Sir Austen Henry Layard's first adventurous journey to the East and residence among different tribes of Persia in the years 1840-1842. This book mentioned by the late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing in his diary as 'one of the most interesting books'. The author - Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (1817-1894), was an eminent English traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Contains two beautiful b&w illustrations, two frontispieces and three fold-out maps. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 205x140mm. 490+511 pages [+20]. Olive green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering and red and green patterns on front cover and spine. Text block edges age-stained. Cover yellowing and dirty/stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and worn. Binding slightly visible on inner cover (but still intact). Small sticker on front whitepage. Illustrations and some pages slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of a two-volume illustrated memoir of travels and residence in Persia by an illustrious Late Victorian England personality is in good condition.
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Dothan, Trude ; Ben-Tor, Amnon
Excavations at Athienou 1971-1972
18x21 cm. Unpaginated. Softcover. In good condition.
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Heltzer, Michael
Goods, Prices and the Organization of Trade in Ugarit. Marketing and Transportation in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Half of the II Millenium B.C.E..
24x17 cm. XII+163 pages. Softcover. In good condition.
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Sami, Ali / Sharp, R. N. [Tr.]
Pasargadae - The Oldest Imperial Capital of Iran
22X16 cm. 240 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly stained. Else in good condition.
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Blanckertz, Rudolf
Schreibwerkzeug und schriftform [VOLUME 4 ONLY]. [SERIES]: Deutsches Museum Abhandlungen und Berichte / 5. Jahrgang / Heft 4.
VOLUME 4 ONLY. 21.5x15.5 cm. 46 pages (Pagination: 96-142). Hardcover. Book rebound. In good condition.
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Hornby, Emily / Hornby, F. M. [Illustr.]
Sinai and Petra: The Journals of Emily Hornby in 1899 and 1901. With Colored Plates From the original Water Color Sketches by F. M. Hornby.
RARE journal of a voyage to the Holy Land, Sinai and Petra in 1899-1901 with beautiful color illustrations by the author's husband. 220x145mm. 244 pages. Green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cover dirty and rubbed/worn. Cover corners bumped. Cover and spine yellowing. Spine edges bumped and peeling/tattered. Inner cover, whitepages and few pages throughout the book age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book, a real treat for any serious collector of Holy Land books, is in good condition.
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Barag, Dan ; Zissu, Boaz [Eds.]
Studies in Honour of Arnold Spaer. [SERIES]: The Israel Numismatic Journal, 17.
24.5x17.5 cm. 256 pages. Gilt hardcover. Front cover slightly stained. Else in good condition.
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Barag, Dan [Ed.]
Studies in Memory of Leo Mildenberg
Contains b&w plates. 24.5x17 cm. 262 pages. Gilt hardcover. In good condition.
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Eichler, Seyyare ; Haas, Volkert ; Steudler, Daniel ; Wafler, Markus ; Warburton, David
Tall Al-Hamidiya 1: Vorbericht 1984 [THIS VOLUME ONLY]. [SERIES]: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 4.
THIS VOLUME ONLY. Contains maps. 33X24 cm. 361 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cover corners slightly bumped. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Ziegler, Christiane / Stierlin, Henri [Photography]
Tanis: Tresors des Pharaons
32X24.5 cm. 224 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. Pen inscription on first blank page. Else in good conditions. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Crawford, Harriet E. W.
The Architecture of Iraq in the Third Millennium B.C. [SERIES]: Mesopotamia - Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology, 5.
22.5x15 cm. VIII+106 pages. Softcover. Cover edges slightly wrinkled and rubbed. Pen dedication on first white page. Else in good condition.
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Woolley, Leonard
The Buildings of the Third Dynasty. [SERIES]: UR Excavations - Publications of the joint expedition of the British Museum and of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, to Mesopotamia, 6.
Contains b&w plates. 32.5x24 cm. X+110 pages. Hardcover. In good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Childe, V. Gordon
The Most Ancient East: The Oriental Prelude to European Prehistory
Contains black and white plates. 22.5x16 cm. XIV+257 pages. Gilt hardcover. Spine slightly bumped. Cover corners slightly bumped. Pages slightly stained. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Ronen, Avraham ; Davies, Moshe
Tirat-Carmel: A Mousterian Open-Air Site in Israel - The Pleistocene Geology and Prehistory of the Coastal Plain of Israel. [SERIES]: The Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University Publication, 3.
Contains b&w plates. 27x20 cm. 68 pages. Softcover. Cover corners and spine edges slightly wrinkled. Else in good condition.
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Koldewey, Robert
Das Wieder Erstehende Babylon: Die Bisherigen Ergebnisse der Deutschen Ausgrabungen
25x18 cm. VII+333 pages. Hardcover. Spine edges Slightly torn. Cover and few pages slightly water-stained. Binding visible between spine and rear cover, and front inner cover and first white page. Pen inscription on third white page. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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L'Ègyptologie en 1979. Axes prioritaires de recherches - Tome I [THIS VOLUME ONLY]. [SERIES]: Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS] - No. 595..
VOLUME I ONLY of papers in English, French and German presented at a conference organized by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique as part of the 2nd International Congress of Egyptologists, held at Grenoble, Sept. 10-15, 1979. The first volume contains the text of forty-seven communications which were presented under the first three of the seven "leading themes" (around which the Congress was organized): Diachrony and Synchrony in the Egyptian Language, The Religious "Philosophy", Archaeological Survey and Historical Geography of the Delta and Middle Egypt, together with the report of the Demotic Studies group. Contains 50 papers in French, English and German, with French summary of English and German articles printed under the final section of each article. Contains 69 b&w figures, illustrations and plans/maps (also one fold-out plan). 270x210mm. 306 pages. Softcover. Thin plastic protective dust-jacket slightly peeling. Cover corners and edges wrinkled and worn. Spine wrinkled. Spine edges and hinges bumped/wrinkled. Rear whitepages bottom corner/creased. Some pages bottom corner bumped/wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare volume with proceedings from an important Egyptological conference is in good condition.
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Sami, Ali / Sharp, R. N. [Tr.]
Pasargadae: the Oldest Imperial Capital of Iran [SERIES]: The Learned Society of Pars, no. 5.
Contains b&w plates. 23x16.5 cm. 160 pages. Hardcover. Spine edges slightly bumped. Cover and few pages slightly stained - no damage to text. Else in good condition.
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Papathanassopoulos, George A. [Ed.]
Neolithic Culture In Greece
28.5x22.5 cm. 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. In good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Allam, Schafik
Beiträge zum Hathorkult (bis zum Ende des Mittleren Reiches). Mit 8 Tafeln. [SERIES]: Münchner Ägyptologische Studien, 4.
RARE monograph on the ancient Egyptian cult of the goddess Hathor by an eminent German Egyptologist Schafik Allam (b.1928), a major authority on non-literary texts, especially Egyptian legal history and administration and professor of Egyptology in University of Tübingen from 1974. This monograph is based on his doctoral thesis from 1960. Contains 6 full-page b&w plates. 235x170mm. [VIII], 164 pages & 6 full-page plates. Softcover. Cover corners and edges slightly rubbed. Spine yellowing and rubbed/wrinkled. Pencil notes/underlining on few pages. Pages yellowing. This extremely rare book is otherwise in good condition.
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Simons, J.
Jerusalem in the Old Testament: Research and Theories. [SERIES]: Studia Francisci Scholten Memoriae Dicata - Volumen Primum.
RARE comprehensive synthesis of all literary and archaeological data concerning biblical Jerusalem. Includes many b&w illustrations (33 plates and 64 figures, among them also fold-out plans/maps). 300x230mm. XVI+517 pages. Dark-blue cloth Hardcover with gilt front cover and spine. Cover slightly curved. Cover and spine dirty/slightly stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and rubbed. Cover edges and spine hinges rubbed. Pages slightly yellowing and slightly wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare monograph on biblical Jerusalem, covering all available ancient and modern literary sources and archaeological data published until the 1950s, is in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam
La Poterie Islamique. [SERIES]: Memoires de la Delegation Archeologique en Iran - Tome L: Mission de Susiane, sous la direction de R. Ghirshman - Ville Royale de Suse IV.
RARE comprehensive monograph on the Islamic ceramic art of Susa - an ancient city of the Proto-Elamite, Elamite, First Persian Empire, Seleucid, and Parthian empires of Iran, and one of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East, excavated under the direction of an eminent specialist in ancient Persia, the Russian-born French archeologist - Roman Ghirshman (1895-1979), together with his wife Tania Ghirshman. The pottery found at the various levels enabled a stratigraphy to be developed for Susa. The author of this monograph is Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, the Mayer professor of Islamic art and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a renowned scholar of Islamic material culture. 340x280mm. 313 pages & 69 full-page b&w plates. Beige quarter-cloth board Hardcover. Black lettering on front cover and spine. Cover and spine yellowing, age-stained and slightly stained. Cover corners, front cover upper edge and spine edges bumped. Front cover bottom edge slightly bumped. Pages 55-62 bottom corner wrinkled. Page 61/62 upper corner creased. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Cohn, Erich W.
New Ideas about Jerusalem's Topography [SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH DEDICATION].
SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH DEDICATION in English to Nathan Schur (1923-2012) - an eminent historian of the Holy Land and Karaite Jews. RARE comprehensive monograph on various biblical and medieval sites in Jerusalem by an eminent authority in the field. Includes 9 maps (one fold-out). [CONTENTS]: Section A: The Early Watersources and -installations of Jerusalem - Their History and the History of their Names. / Section B: The Hasmonean Palace as a Focal Point in Hellenistic Jerusalem - The Story and its Sources. / Section C: The Creation of Aelia Capitolina, The Roman Substitute for Jerusalem. 275x215mm. 140 pages & 9 maps. Softcover. Text block edges age-stained. Cover age-stained and wrinkled/bumped near spine and rear bottom corner/edge. Spine wrinkled and slightly dirty. Spine edges bumped. Several first and last pages slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare study of Jerusalem topography, bearing the author's signed dedication and of interest to any biblical scholar and historian of ancient Jerusalem, is in good condition.
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Miller, Stuart S.
Studies in the History and Traditions of Sepphoris. [SERIES]: Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, 37.
24.5x16 cm. X+160 pages. Gilt hardcover. Few pages age stained. Else in good condition
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Rosen, Steven A. ; Avni, Gideon
The 'Oded Sites: Investigations of Two Early Islamic Pastoral Camps South of the Ramon Crater. [SERIES]: Beer-Sheva: Studies by the Department of Bible and Ancient Near East / Volume XI.
17x24.5 cm. 130 pages. Hardcover. In good condition.
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Sukenik, E. L.
Archaeological Investigations at 'Affula, Conducted on Behalf of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
24x17 cm. 78+7 pages. Softcover. Several pages age stained. Else in good condition.
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Netzer, Ehud ; Weiss, Zeev
Zippori
24x17 cm. 71 cm. Softcover. As new.
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Vaux, W. S. W.
Ancient History from the Monuments: Persia - Fron the Earliest Period to the Arab Conquest
17x11.5 cm. 192 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover edges slightly rubbed. Binding slightly visible between Whitepages and inner cover. Few worm holes on rear inner cover - no worms. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
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Ball, Warwick [Ed.]
Ancient Settlement in the Zammar Region - Excavations by the British Archaeological Expedition to Iraq in the Eski Mosul Dam Salvage Project, 1985-86 - Volume Two: Excavations at Tell Abu Dhahir St John Simpson [VOLUME 2 ONLY]. [SERIES]: BAR International Series 1724.
VOLUME 2 ONLY. Contains what seems to be a summary in Arabic. 30x21 cm. 8+162 pages. Softcover. Book cover bound upside-down. Pagination right to left. Cover slightly rubbed. Else in good condition.
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Avida, Uri ; Mevorach, David [Curators]
Animals in Ancient Art - From the Leo Mildenberg Collection
21x18 cm. Unpaginated. Softcover. Pen writing and marking on several pages. Else in good condition.
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Israeli, Yael [Curator]
Antike Glaskunst im Israel Museum / La Verrerie Ancienne au Musee d'Israel [BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-FRENCH]
BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-FRENCH. 27x21 cm. 64 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Else in good condition.
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Bihalji-Merin, Oto [ed.]
Art Treasures of Yugoslavia
32x28.5 cm. 445 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. Text on cover slightly rubbed and faded. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Reifenberg, Adolf
Denkmaler der Judischen Antike. [SERIES]: Bucherei des Schocken Verlags / 75-76.
19.5x12 cm. 63 pages + unpaginated B&W plates. Hardcover. Cover and spine slightly rubbed and stained. Spine faded. Pen writing on front inner cover. Pages slightly age stained. Else in good condition.
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Bezold, C.
Die Babylonisch-Assyrischen Keilinschriften und ihre Bedeutung für das Alte Testament - ein assyriologischer Beitrag zur Babel-Bibel-Frage, Mit 100 Anmerkungen und 12 Abbildungen.
22x14.5 cm. 67 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners slightly worn. Sticker on front cover. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
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Kasher, Aryeh; Oppenheimer, Aharon [Ed.]
Dor Le-Dor: From the End of Biblical Times Up to the Redaction of the Talmud: Studies in Honor of Joshua Efron [IN HEBREW].
25x17 cm. 284+28 pages. Hardcover. In good condition.
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Bar-Yosef, Ofer ; Phillips, James L.
Prehistoric Investigations in Gebel Maghara, Northern Sinai. [SERIES]: Qedem: Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology / 7.
28x20.5 cm. 269+18 pages. Hardcover. In good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Weiss, Ze'ev; Netzer, Ehud
Promise and Redemption: a Synagogue Mosaic From Sepphoris.
27x21 cm. 49+47 pages. Softcover. In good condition.
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Revista Do Museu Paulista - Nova Serie: Volume 20.
Contains b&w plates. 230x165mm. 153 pages. Softcover. Cover edges slightly rubbed. Cover edges slightly wrinkled. Spine edges slightly rubbed. Stamp on title page. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
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Segal, Arthur
Shivta: Plan and Architecture of a Byzantine Town in the Negev [IN HEBREW] [SIGNED BY AUTHOR]
IN HEBREW. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 275x220 mm. 67 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly wrinkled and slightly yellowing. Cover edges slightly water-stained and slightly rubbed. Else in good condition.
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Glueck, Nelson
The Other Side of the Jordan
23x15 cm. 208+17 pages. Softcover. Spine slightly wrinkled. Pen writing on front whitepage. Binding visible between few pages. Else in good condition.
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Goodnick Westenholz, Joan [Ed.]
Three Faces of Monotheism [IN HEBREW, ARABIC AND ENGLISH]
IN HEBREW, ARABIC AND ENGLISH. 21x27 cm. 170+46 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Sukenik, E. L.
The Ancient Synagogue of El-Hammeh (Hammath-by-Gadara) [Hamat Gader]
Contains B&W plates. 26x19.5 cm. 99 pages. Softcover. Cover edges worn. Pen writing on spine. Spine worn. Front cover slightly detached. Else in good condition.
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Maynor Bikai, Patricia ; Dailey, Thomas A. [Eds.]
Madaba Cultural Heritage
28x21.5 cm. 101 pages. Cover slightly stained. Else in good condition.
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Malamat, Abraham
A Collection of Mari Documents in Akkadian Translation and Hebrew Translation [IN HEBREW, AKKADIAN IN ENGLISH LETTERS]
IN HEBREW, AKKADIAN IN ENGLISH LETTERS. 27.5x21 cm. 67 pages. Cover yellowing. Cover corners slightly wrinkled. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
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Seltman, Charles
A Book of Greek Coins
contains blocks in black-white. 18.5x12 cm. 25+48 pages. Hardcover in dust jacket. In good condition.
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Grapow, Hermann
Die Bildlichen Ausdrucke des Agyptischen
21.5x13.5 cm. 219 (xvi+203) pages. Hardcover. Spine upper edge bumped. Binding visible between several pages. In good condition.
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Goor, Asaf; Nurock, Max
The Fruits of the Holyland
25x18 cm. 292 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. Ex libris on front inner cover. Some pages age stained. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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Benvenisti, Meron
The Crusaders' Fortress of Montfort
24x17 cm. 44 pages. Softcover. In good condition.
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Tadmor, H. ; Weinfeld, M. [Eds.]
History, Histogriography and Interpretation: Studies in Biblical and Cuneiform Literatures
23x15 cm. 192 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly yellowing and stained. Front cover slightly detached. Spine slightly worn. Inner front cover and front whitepage slightly stained with correcting fluid. Few pencil marking and age stains on page edges - no damage to text. Else in good condition.
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Porat, Roi ; Chachy, Rachel ; Kalman, Yakov
Herodium: Final Reports of the 1972-2010 Excavations Directed by Ehud Netzer - Volume I: Herod's Tomb Precinct [THIS VOLUME ONLY]
THIS VOLUME ONLY. AS IS. 31.5x25 cm. 546+16+xliv pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover edges slightly bumped. Spine bottom edge bumped and worn. Pencil writing on title page - no damage to text. Front whitepage missing. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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