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BERESFORD M. W.
Medieval England. An Aerial Survey. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., Best Edition, with over 150 illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A classic study and the standard reference. This is the considerably revised and expanded version of the original edition of 1958.
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BURN A.R.
The Romans in Britain. An Anthology of Inscriptions. With Translations and a Running Commentary. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter laminated to boards. Expanded version of the first edition of 1932. Bonser, 305 (recording the first edition)
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COTTRELL Leonard
Lost Cities.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 40 plates on 24, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. Cottrell describes the lost cities of Babylon, Nineveh, Ur, Hattusas, Pompeii, Anuradhapura, Polunnaruwa, Chichen-Itza and Macchu-Picchu.
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CRAMPTON Patrick
Stonehenge of the Kings. A People Appear.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 28 plates, numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text, and front endpaper map; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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HOOKE S.H.
The Siege Perilous. Essays in Biblical Anthropology and Kindred Subjects.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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LEEDS E. Thurlow
The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements. [Facsimile reissue].
8vo., Second Edition, with 13 plates containing a variety of photographs and figures, and numerous illustrations and full-page maps in the text; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. With a personal bookplate on front paste-down. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the scarce original edition of 1913
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MORTON H. V.
In the Steps of the Master. DE LUXE EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S MOROCCO
8vo., De Luxe Edition, on laid paper, with sepia-toned frontispiece and 23 sepia-toned plates (8 double-page panoramas) and endpaper maps; publisher's red full morocco, sides with frame border in blind, back blind-ruled to give six compartments, second and third compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral device, gilt top, red silk marker, doublures lightly rubbed else a near fine copy. There are at least four issues of this title: a) the limited numbered edition; b) the [present] 'de luxe' edition; c) the Large Paper Extra-Illustrated edition; d) the ordinary trade edition. See Fields & Devenish 21.
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MORTON H. V.
In the Steps of St. Paul. DE LUXE EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S MOROCCO
8vo., De Luxe Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece and 23 sepia-toned plates (8 double-page panoramas) and endpaper maps; publisher's blue full morocco, sides with frame border in blind, back blind-ruled to give six compartments, second and third compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a floral device, gilt top, blue silk marker, doublures lightly rubbed else a near fine copy. There are at least four issues of this title: a) the limited numbered edition; b) the [present] 'de luxe' edition; c) the Large Paper Extra-Illustrated edition; d) the ordinary trade edition. See Fields & Devenish 23.
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RIMMER Alfred
Ancient Stone Crosses of England.
8vo., with 72 wood-engravings in the text; cloth, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed high quality facsimile of the original edition of 1875.
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WILKINSON A.
Ancient Egyptian Jewellery.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 54 monochrome plates and numerous illustrations in the text; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Published in the series 'Handbooks of Archaeology', this is the first major survey of Egyptian jewellery, ranging from the predynastic period to the end of the XXVIth Dynasty (525 BC). Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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KIRSCHBAUM E.
The Tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul. Peter and St. Paul. Translated from the German by John Murray [First English Edition].
8vo., First English Edition, with 4 coloured plates, 40 plates in monochrome, very numerous plans and diagrams in the text and front and rear endpaper plans; black pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BIBBY Geoffrey
The Testimony of the Spade.
8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 34, and 56 illustrations and 16 maps, plans and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in worn and price-clipped dustwrapper.
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ROYAL COMMISSION ON ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge. [Complete set.] NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS WITH PORTFOLIO
2 vols., plus map portfolio, together 3 volumes, roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 2 frontispieces, titles in red and black, and very numerous plates, maps and plans (a number folding), plus four very large folding maps in separate portfolio; original series binding of red buckram, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The four large maps in separate portfolio show the position of the monuments generally, and plans of King's, St. Johns and Trinity Colleges. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE
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EDDY S.K.
The King is Dead. Studies in the Near Eastern Resistance to Hellenism, 334-31 BC. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a large folding map as frontispiece, and 8 plates on 4; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean in the dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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TAYLOR H.M.
Anglo-Saxon Architecture. COMPLETE SET IN THE DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., sm. folio, First Edition, with 80 plates, 362 illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; decorative cloth gilt, gilt backs, a very good set in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed and frayed at extremities. The standard reference, providing a complete catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon corpus surviving in the churches of England. Volume one is a survey of pre-Conquest architectural features; volume two contains the catalogue. A third, supplementary, volume was issued separately in 1978 but the present work is complete without it
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TAYLOR H.M.
Anglo-Saxon Architecture. COMPLETE EXTENDED SET IN THE DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., sm. folio, First Editions, with 80 plates, 362 illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; decorative cloth gilt, gilt backs, a very good, bright clean set in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed and frayed at extremities. The standard reference, providing a complete catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon corpus surviving in the churches of England. Volume one is a survey of pre-Conquest architectural features; volume two contains the catalogue; volume three is the supplement
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HILL W.T.
Buried London. Mithras to the Middle Ages.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, 39 plates on 24, and 16 maps (3 double-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. This important work provides a complete record of the excavations and finds made in London between 1945 and 1955, principally as a result of bomb damage.
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BAIKIE J.
Egyptian Antiquities in the Nile Valley.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, plates, plans in the text and a map; original red cloth, gilt back, lower board lightly mottled at fore-edge else a very good, bright, clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION
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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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