‎Archeologie‎

‎KROEPER, KARLA, MAREK CHLODNICKI, MICHAL KOBUSIEWICZ (EDTS.).‎

‎Archeology of Early Northeastern Africa. In memory of Lech Krzyzaniak.‎

‎Poznan, 2006. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth with dustjacket. XXX,1055 pp. Richly textillustrated.‎

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‎WIEGAND, THEODOR.‎

‎Erster vorläufiger Bericht über die von den königlichen Museen unternommenen Ausgraber in Samos.‎

‎Berlin, Akad. d. Wissenschaften, 1911. 4to. Orig. clothbacked printed boards. Stamp on titlepage. 24 pp., text-figures a. 1 folded plan. Offprint from Abhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften vom Jahre 1911.‎

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‎REYGASSE, MAURICE.‎

‎Monuments funéraires préislamiques de L’Afrique du Nord. Préface de Albert Grenier.‎

‎Paris, Arts et Métiers, (1950). 4to. Orig. printed wrappers. Light wear to backstrip. Small stamp on foot of titlepage. X,134,(1) pp., 174 illustr. on plates, 1 large folded map. Internally clean.‎

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‎ROMAN YORK -‎

‎An Inventory of the historical Monuments in the City of York. Volime I: Ebvracvm. Roman York.‎

‎(Leicester), Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1962. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Upper part of frontcovera bit faded. A small stamp to foot of titlepage. Mounted colourplate as frontispiece. XV.168 pp., 71 plates, textillustr. Internally clean.‎

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‎(ANTONIELLE, UGO et PERICLE PERALI).‎

‎Orvieto Etrusca.‎

‎Roma, Tipografia del Senato, 1928. Large 4to. Solid full buckram. Stamps on foot of titlepage. Gilt lettering to spine. 82 pp., 1 folded map and 12 plates.‎

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‎DYGGVE, EJNAR.‎

‎Lindos Fouilles de L'Acropole 1902-1914 et 1952. (Part III:1-2) Le Sanctuaire D'Athana Lindia et L'Architecture Lindienne. Avec un Catalogue des Sculptures trouvees sur L'Acropole par Vagn Poulsen. 2 Vols.‎

‎Berlin, Copenhaque, De Gruyter & Cie, C.E.C. Gad, 1960. Folio. 2 orig. full cloth with dustjacket. A small tear to first hinge on vol. 1. Titlepage with 2 stamps. 576,(1) pp., profusely illustrated and 1 folded map. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎Fondation Carlsberg - Copenhagen.‎

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‎"NIEMEYER, HANS GEORG und HERMANFRID SCHUBART.‎

‎Toscanos: Die altpunische Faktorei an der Mündung des Rio de Velez. Lieferng 1: Grabungskampagne 1964.‎

‎Berlin, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1969. Small folio. Orig. full cloth. Stamp on foot of titlepage. VII,124 pp., 38 plates (some in colour) and 16 ""Beilagen"".‎

‎(Madrider Forschungen, Band 6 - Deutsches Archáologisches Institut).‎

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‎HELLSTRÖM, PONTUS a. HANS LANGHALLE.‎

‎The Rock Drawings. Including the Results of the Gordon Memorial College Expedition to Abka under the Direction of Oliver Myers. 2 Vols. (Text + Plates).‎

‎Stockholm, 1970. 4to. 2 orig. full cloth with dustjackets. Stamp on htitle and foot of titlepage. 238,12 pp. , 25 maps, Corpus-plates and 172 plts.Internally clean and fine.‎

‎(The Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia. Vol. I:1-2).‎

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‎MAU, AUGUST.‎

‎Pompeji in Leben und Kunst. Mit 278 Abbildungen im Text, 12 Heliogravuren und Vollbildern und 6 Plänen.‎

‎Leipzig, Engelmann, 1900. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and a bit rubbed. Stamp on htitle and titlepage. XIX,506 pp., textillustr. and plates.‎

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‎ZONTSCHEW, DIMITER.‎

‎Der Goldschatz von Panagjurischte. Aufnahmen von Helga Reusch.‎

‎Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1959. Lex8vo. Orig. full cloth. Stamp on foot of titlepage. 20 pp. and 72 illustrations on many plates.‎

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‎LEHMANN, KARL.‎

‎Samothrace. The Inscriptions on Ceramics and minor Objects.‎

‎London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1960). Large 4to. Orig. full cloth with d/j. Stamp on foot of titlepage and on htitle. (10),154 pp., textillustr. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎(Samothrace. Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Part 2:2).‎

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‎DAVIS, SIMON.‎

‎The Decipherment of the Minoan Linear a and Pictographic Scrips.‎

‎Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press 1967. 4to. In the original black cloth with dust jacket. Dust jacket with a few small tears, otherwise a fine and clean copy. XXXI, 342 pp.‎

‎First edition.‎

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‎HANNESTAD, LISE, VLADIMIR F. STOLBA, ALEXANDER N. SCEGLOV (EDTS.).‎

‎Panskoye I. Volume 1: The Monumental Building U6. 2 Vols. (Text + Plates).‎

‎Aarhus, University Press, 2002. Large 4to. 2 orig. boards. Stamp to front free endpapers. 36818 pp. and 191 plates.‎

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‎MÜLLER-KARPE, HERMANN.‎

‎Handbuch der Vorgeschichte. 4 Bde. (in 9 Theile, alles).‎

‎München, Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1966-80. 4to. Bound in 9 orig. full cloth with dustjackets. A few tears to jackets. Stamp on title-pages. Internally fine. Many plates.‎

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‎HAZZIDAKIS, JOSEPH.‎

‎Tylissos a L'Époque Minoen suivi d'une Note sur les Larnax de Tylissos. Traduit du Grec...‎

‎Paris, Geuthner, 1921. Royal8vo. Solid hfabrikoid. Stamp on foot of title-page. 88,(4) pp., textillustr. and 10 plates.‎

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‎GASDIA, VINCENZO EDUARDO.‎

‎La Casa Pagano-Christiana del Celio. (Titvlvs Byzantis sive Pammachii).‎

‎Roma, Pustet, 1937. Royal8vo. orig. printed wrappers. Coloured frontispiece. XLVII,729 pp., 142 textillustr. Stamp on foot of title-page and front free endpaper. Internally fine.‎

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‎MODESTI, GIANNI B.‎

‎Cairano nell'eta Arcaica. L'Abitato e la Necropoli.‎

‎Napoli, 1980. Folio. In the original red printed wrappers. Small stamp to lower part of title page and small white label pasted on to top left corner of front wrappers, otherwise fine. 221 pp + 116 plates.‎

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‎ARNE, T.J.‎

‎Das Bootgräberfeld von Tuna in Alsike Uppland.‎

‎Stockholm, Verlag der Akademie, 1934. Folio. Solid hbuckram. Slightly rubbed. Stamps on halftitle. 75,(5) pp. and 33 plates. From the library of H.C. Broholm.‎

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‎CARTER, JOSEPH.‎

‎The Sculpture of the Sanctuary of Athena Polias at Priene.‎

‎London, Thames & Hudson, 1983. 4to. In publisher's full red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in the original printed dust-jacket. A fine and clean copy. XXIII, 267 pp. + 47 plates.‎

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‎COMMISSION IMPÉRIALE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE -‎

‎Compte-Rendu de la Commission Impériale Archéologique pour L'Année 1874 (1875 et 1876). 3 Vols.‎

‎St.- Petersbourg, Imprimerie de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1877-79. Large 4to. Spine gone and covers loose. Stamp on first title-page. XXIV,234XXXVI,221XL,235 pp. textillustrations and 1 photographic plates. The accompanying atlasses lacks. Internally fine.‎

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‎ACTES DU VIIIE CONGRES INTERN. DES SCIENCES PRÉHISTORIQUES ET PROTOHISTORIQUES.‎

‎ACTES DU VIIIe Congres Intern. des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques. Redigée par Jan Filip. 2 vols.‎

‎Prague, 1970. Lex8vo. 1440 pp. and 28 plts., textillustr.‎

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‎WILSON, DANIEL.‎

‎Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. Second Edition. 2 Vols.‎

‎London, Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1863. Bound uncut in 2 orig. full cloth. Richly gilt spines and covers. XXXV,504X,556 pp., textillustrations and 25 plates.‎

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‎SEHESTED, N.F.B.‎

‎Archæologiske Undersøgelser 1878-1881. Udgivne efter hans Død.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel,1884. Stor 4to. Nyere hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. X,180 pp., 5 litograferede kort samt 36 kobberstukne plancher med talrige figurer.‎

‎Originaltrykket.‎

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‎OLDEBERG, ANDREAS.‎

‎Die ältere metallzeit in Schweden. I-II.‎

‎Sth., 1974-76. 4to. 410, 225 pp., 3228 illustr. On plts.‎

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‎"CHAMPOLLION LE JEUNE, (JEAN FRANCOIS).‎

‎Lettre a M. Dacier, relative a l'alpabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques, employés par les égyptiens pour inscrire sur leurs monuments les titres, les noms et les surnoms des souveraines grecs et romains. - [""I'VE GOT IT"" - CRACKING THE CODE OF THE HIEROGLYPHS]‎

‎Paris, Firmin Didot, 1822. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Front wrapper slightly soiled and a bit of light dampstaining throughout. Upper corner worn. Six leaves with contemporary neat annotations, scholarly notes and drawings have been inserted at the front and the back - one double-leaf in front of the title-page (with one page of annotations with references to other works by Champollion), two leaves between plates III and IV (with two and a half pages of Greek-ancient Greek-Latin correspondence alphabet) and three leaves at the end, before the final blank (with five pages of an alphabet of the first Egyptian letters - very neatly drawn - and an alphabet-correspondence at the end). A very charming and interesting copy in the exceedingly rare original wrappers. Housed in a half morocco slipcase with gilt lettering to spine. (4), 52 pp. + 4 folded plates + 1 blank leaf.‎

‎The scarce first edition, in the even scarcer original printed wrappers, of Champollion's milestone work, which announced for the first time the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, provided the key to reading Egyptian hieroglyphs, and gave birth to the entire field of modern Egyptology. This seminal work arguably constitutes the single most important philological work ever written. ""[...] in the actual state of Egyptian studies, when the monuments stream out from all sides and are collected by the rulers as by amateurs, and when also the scientists of all countries are eager to engage in serious research of their subject matter and are eager to penetrate deeply into the knowledge of these written monuments which must be used to explain all the others, I do not think I should wait till another time to bring to the scientists' attention and under your honourable auspices a short but important series of new developments, which naturally belong to my Memory on HIEROGLYPHIC writing, and which will doubtlessly save you the trouble that I have taken to establish what may be very serious errors about the different periods in the history of Egyptian art and the general administration of Egypt: for this is about the series of hieroglyphs that, making an exception to the general nature of the signs of this writing, have been equipped with the ability to EXPRESS THE SOUNDS of the words, and which are used in the inscriptions of the public monuments of Egypt, the TITLES, the NAMES, and the EPONYMS OF THE GREEK OR ROMAN SOVEREIGNS, who rule Egypt one after the other. Many certainties in the history of this celebrated piece of land must arise from this new result of my research, to which I have been led quite naturally."" (pp. 2-3) (*) says Champollion on the opening pages of the present letter to Mr. Dacier. And thus was laid the foundation of modern Egyptology. Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832), known as the father of Egyptology, was by no means exaggerating when he stated the above - his letter to Mr. Dacier upon his new discoveries and the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs did change the study of Egypt and Egyptology more profoundly than any work before or after. Ever since the publication of the present work, Champollion has been credited with being the first to correctly and fully decipher the inscription on the famous Rosetta Stone, translating it, and breaking the mystery of the ancient hieroglyphic script"" it is in the present work that this milestone event in the history of modern man is announced first time, and it is due to this discovery that he is accepted as the founder of Scientific Egyptology. The Rosetta Stone, which dates back to 196 B.C was found in 1799 by French Troops and was immediately brought to England, where it has been ever since. The stone was (and is) of the utmost importance to the understanding of the Egyptian language, the principles of which were totally unknown up until this point. Because the hieroglyphic inscription on the stone is accompanied by a Greek and a Demotic one with the same contents (the commemoration of Ptolemy V's accession to the Egyptian throne), Champollion was able to crack the code of the hieroglyphs and to read a language that had not been read for far more than a millennium. Other very skilled linguists had worked on the decipherment of the hieroglyphic inscription simultaneously with Champollion, but they had all given up by the time that Champollion finally had his first true breakthrough. It came in 1822, when he successfully deciphered two Egyptian names, Ramses and Thutmos, written in hieroglyphic characters in temple cartouches. Champollion's discovery pointed to the fact that the Egyptian hieroglyphs functioned as an alphabet, a phonetic language and a system of symbols that could stand for words or concepts. ""And if the resembling signs of the two names render THE SAME SOUNDS on both cartouches, it is due to their ENTIRELY PHONETIC character."" (p. 7). (**) He succeeded in showing that the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system was a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs, and using his new discovery as a foundation, Champollion next turned his attention to common nouns, and deciphered the phrase ""birthday celebrations"" from the Rosetta Stone.""It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase, I would almost say in the same word"" says Champollion about the hieroglyphs, in the present work, after having established their meaning. He had finally cracked the code and was sure of it. He was so excited by this monumental discovery that he immediately ran to his brother's house, into his office, shouting the famous words ""Je tiens l'affaire!"", i.e. ""I've got it!"". It is said that he then fainted and spent the next five days in bed recovering. Shortly after his recovery, he began writing the letter for Mr. Dacier, outlining the discovery that laid the foundation for deciphering hieroglyphs, which was published later the same year, and a condensed version of which he presented as a speech at the Academie des Inscriptions. When he presented the speech, Thomas Young, who had given up breaking the code four years earlier, was also in the audience.In 1824, Champollion published a more comprehensive explanation of the hieroglyphic system, his famous ""Précis du Système Hieroglyphiques des Anciens Egyptiens"".Champollion was an extraordinary philologist, who, by the age of sixteen, besides Greek and Latin, mastered six ancient Middle Eastern languages, among these Coptic, the knowledge of which, unlike that of Egyptian, was never lost. As the first, Champollion realized the connection between the Coptic and the Egyptian language, and was able to identify many of the Egyptian words on the Rosetta Stone, as he could read them with their Coptic equivalents. He was the first to believe that both Demotic and Hieratic represented symbols, and not sounds as earlier presumed. After that he quickly realized that each single hieroglyph could represent a sign, and he began compiling a hieroglyphic alphabet. When publishing his letter to Mr. Dacier, he presented the fact that the hieroglyphs represented sounds as well as concepts, according to context. Champollion is thus the constructor of our present code of the hieroglyphic alphabet. ""Further study enabled him to discover the values of a number of syllabic hieroglyphic signs, and to recognize the use of hieroglyphs as determinatives. In cases where the Greek text supplied him with the meaning of hieroglyphs of which he did not know the phonetic values, his knowledge of Coptic enabled him to suggest values which he found subsequently to be substantially correct. Further reference to determinatives and the importance of parallel passages and texts will be made later on in his work. Between 1822-24 CHAMPOLLION worked incessantly, and was enabled to modify much of his earlier views, and to develop his Alphabet, -and he evolved some rudimentary principles of Egyptian Grammar..."" (Wallis Budge, The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, pp. 224-25). ""We have only been able to locate 4 auction records of the work within the last 40 years (ABPC & JAP), none of them in original wrappers.________________________________________________________________________________ORIGINAL FRENCH TEXT OF THE QUOTATIONS ABOVE (WHICH ARE IN OWN TRANSLATION):(*) ""[...] dans l'etat actual des études égyptiennes, lors-que de toutes parts les monuments affluent et sont recueilles par les souverains comme par les amateurs, lorsqu'aussi, et a leur sujet, les savants de tous les pays s'empressent de se livrer à de laborieuses recherches, et s'efforcent de pénétrer intimement dans la connaissance de ces monuments écrits qui doivent servir à expliquer tous les autres, je ne crois pas devoir remettre à un autre temps d'offrir à ces savants et sous vos honorables auspices, une courte mais importante série de faits nouveaux, qui appartient naturellement à mon Mémoire sur l'écriture HIÉROGLYPHIQUE, et qui leur épargnera sans doute la peine que j'ai prise pour l'établir, peut-être aussi de graves erreurs sur les époques diverses de l'histoire des arts et de l'administration générale de l'Égypte: car il s'agit de la série ges HIÉROGLYPHES qui, faisant exception à la nature générale des signes de cette écriture, étaient doués de la faculté d'EXPRIMER LES SONS des mots, et ont servi à inscrire sur les monuments publics de l'Égypte, les TITRES, les NOMS, et les SURNOMS DES SOUVERAINES GRECS OU ROMAINS qui la gouvernèrent successivement. Bien des certitudes pour l'histoire de cette contrée célèbre doivent naître de ce nouveau résultat des mes recherches, auquel j'ai été conduit très-naturellement."" (pp. 2-3).(**) ""et si les signes semblables dans ces deaux noms exprimaient dans l'un et l'autre cartouche LES MÊMES SONS, ils devaient constater leur nature ENTIÈREMENT PHONÉTIQUE."" (p.7).‎

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