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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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Stringer, Chris
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain
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. 242pp. An account of life in Britain from prehistorical times to now. Illustrated.
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Vince, Gaia
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made
Appears unread. 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. 436pp. The author explores our planet which is said to be crossing a geological boundary from the Holocene into the Anthropocene or Age of Man. This book is what she found ordinary people across the planet doing - solving severe crises in ingenious effective ways.
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Pryor, Francis
Britain AD : A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons
Book in mint unread condition. 268pp. The author traces the story of Arthur back to its origins and overturns some common misconceptions. With an extra 21 pages of interview and more with the author at the end.
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Switek, Brian
Written in Stone
Appears to be in as new unread condition. 320pp. The hunt for evolution's 'missing links' and what paleontologists' findings mean for our place on Earth.
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Huxley, Thomas Henry
Man's Place in Nature and Other Essays
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. 372pp. A study which covers evolution, fossils, organic nature, animals, science and Darwin. An almost 100 years old book in amazing condition.
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Ellis, Peter Berresford
The Druids
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 with minor traces of storage. 304pp. A complete re-assessment of who the Druids were. The author concludes they were the intellectual caste of ancient Celtic society - doctors, lawyers, ambassadors, advisors to kings pand they had a religious function.
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Simkiss, Wendy (editor)
The North West Geologist : No 13 : 2006
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on Glacial Erratic in Manchester University Quadrangle, Musings on a Cycad, Heanry Charles Beasley, Digital Cameras and Polarised light, Nant Ffranco/Ogwen Valley, Jurassic Rocks - Whitby, The Causeway Coast and Norman Catlow.
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Simkiss, Wendy (editor)
The North West Geologist : No 14 : 2007
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on Lockeia and Pelecypodichnu fossils, Chirotherium and the Quarrymen, Liverpool Spa, Fuerteventura and a Mafic Pluton, 3D pictures with a digital camera, the Ogwen Valley, the Jurassic of Rutland..
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Simkiss, Wendy (editor)
The North West Geologist : No 15 : 2008
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on George Highland Morton, Styal Country Park, Geology of Horsetails, the Pedwardine Inlier Herefordshire, the Nant Francon-Ogwen Valley, the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Trip to the Shap area.
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Tomas, Andrew
We are Not the First
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to covers and to spine. A clean very tight copy with rubbed unmarked boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 224pp. How atomic theory, penicillin, electric batteries, space travel and many other ideas were first discovered thousands of years ago.
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O'Connell, J. W. & Korff, A. (editors)
The Book of the Burren
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. 228pp. History, archaeology and travel on the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland.
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Sylvester-Bradley, P. C. & Ford, T. D. (editors)
The Geology of the East Midlands
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor foxing to top of page edges and top edge of boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little sunning and small repair to lower spine corner. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 400pp. With nineteen chapters by seventeen authors, experts in their field, this study provides a chronological account of the geological history of the East Midlands of Britain over the last 1000 million years. Includes an extensive bibliography.
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Ziegler, Christiane
The Louvre : Egyptian Antiquities
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease/small tear to upper front spine corner, no other creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor rubbing to some corners and no bumping to corners. 96pp. A well illustrated account of ancient Egyptians antiquities from before the pyramids right up to the Coptic period. 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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Cunliffe, Barry
The Ancient Celts
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 with minor creasing to upper and lower edges and traces of storage. 324pp. A fascinating new picture of the identity of the Celts from the Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
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Bedale, C. L.
Sumerian Tablets from Umma in the John Rylands Library Manchester
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to lower front edge and minor rubbing but no bumping to corners. Some of page-pair top edges unopened. Ten plates with fifty-eight tablet depictions plus 30pp. Transcription, transliteration and translation of the depicted Sumerian tablets by the author. First edition scarce in the UK.
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Buchanan, R.A.
Industrial Archaeology in Britain (Pelican)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 446pp. A study of Britain's 200 years of insustrialization and the evidence left for us. Illustrated with 44 photographic plates.
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Wilkens, Iman
Where Troy Once Stood
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and very minor bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges and traces of storage. 365pp. The author, who spent most of his spare time over about forty years studying Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey in order to identify the true site where the ancient city fo Troy stood, presents some surprising results.
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Hawkes, Jacquetta
Man on Earth
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly tanned foxed top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with some sunning. 256pp. An archeological and anthropological study of mankind. Illustrated.
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