Cotterell, ArthurMareMagnum
2004Narrating the development and disappearance of the world's first war machine, this book reminds readers that much of the power of ancient empires was two-wheeled and horse-driven. Harnessed to other historians' broad-spectrum research on the causes of the end of the Bronze Age, Cotterell argues that, much like the later introduction of the stirrup, chariot technology dramatically recast battlefield strategy across the ancient world. Egyptians employed chariots as all-purpose fighting machines, while Roman chariots were more ceremonial, and Indian troops used theirs as archery platforms; Chinese engineers developed more efficient harnesses, permitting heavier cars. The author's comparative approach broadens the appeal of what would otherwise seem a narrow topic, but this account nevertheless behaves as a detailed military history. Particularly interesting for such scholarship, the author also discusses the chariot as a vehicle for modern popular culture; it aims to dispel the notion that chariots were simply horse-pulled tanks. Scholarly yet accessible, ; 344 pages
1956Very Good English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English. [32] p., fully b/w ills. (47 numbered b/w plates). Country life in Ancient Egypt (Museum of fine Arts Picture Book No. 2).
2016New Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 166 p., b/w ills. Memlük-Kibris iliskileri: Kibris'ta ilk Türk hâkimiyeti.
1997Fictional biography of Cleopatra (heavy, large volume) 964p. Book
1964This is fasicule # 3 intended as part of Volume I, Chapter XX of the Cambridge Ancient History series - Revised edition, Volumes I & II [87p. bibliography ] "In order to make .[the CAH] .available to readers as soon as possible it will be issued, in the first instance, as fasicles. With some exceptions [each] will contain one chapter, but the order of publication will not correspond to the sequence of the chapters . In the volumes of the complete editon the pages will be renumbered, and prefatory matter, maps, chronological tables and indexes will be included. The plates will be issued in a separate volume") Book
1964This is fasicule # 4 intended as part of Volume I, Chapter VI. of the Cambridge Ancient History series - Revised edition, Volumes I & II [85p. bibliography] "In order to make .[the CAH] .available to readers as soon as possible it will be issued, in the first instance, as fasicles. With some exceptions [each] will contain one chapter, but the order of publication will not correspond to the sequence of the chapters . In the volumes of the complete editon the pages will be renumbered, and prefatory matter, maps, chronological tables and indexes will be included. The plates will be issued in a separate volume") Book
20078vo; 474 pages
2015New Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (29 x 13 cm). In Turkish. 200 p. Memlükler, (1250-1517). A study on the Mamluks.
1989Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has light edgewear now in mylar. ; 223pp, nicely illustrated.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 223 pages
2002Fine English Paperback., Very good., 21 x 15 cm, [xii], 212 p. "Osmanli Misir'inda hane politikalari. Kazdaglilarin yükselisi [= The politics of households in Ottoman Egypt the rice of the Qazdaglis], JANE HATAHWAY, Çeviren: Nalan Özsoy, Tarih Vakfi Yurt Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2002"
1975Essays on various places (Italy, Egypt,Sinai, Jerusalem,Cyprus) that Kazantzakis travelled to in 1926 & 1927. 201p. Book
1974Dustjacket has wear but no tears. ; This is the story of the technical, financial and economic colonisation of Egypt by Western Europe between Napoleon's invasion in 1798 and the British occupation in 1882. During this period a country which remained, formally, a province of the Ottoman Empire enjoying a considerable measure of autonomy, in fact fell almost entirely under the control of European foreigners. John Marlowe begins by describing how the French invasion opened up Egypt to Western influences, and how British involvement derived principally from anxiety over communications with India. He goes on to demonstrate how the economic and financial invasion of Egypt which started after the defeat and diminution of Mohamed Ali in 1840 was facilitated by the extraterritorial privileges and immunities conferred on Europeans by the Capitulations; and how this invasion was accelerated and complicated by rivalry and suspicion between the Powers, and was made lethal to Egypt by the folly of her rulers. Under Mohamet Said (1854-63) and Ismail (1853 until his deposition in 1879) the key word in Egyptian affairs was 'loan'. A defenceless country which offered rich prizes to European investors and adventurers was steered into bankruptcy by men governing in a despotic tradition who regarded the country's wealth as their own and whose only remedy for debt was to borrow more. ; 280 pages
1995Very light shelfwear. Else fine. ; Egyptian Bookshelf; 96 pages; One of the most outstanding inventions of ancient Egypt was the making of "paper" from the papyrus plant. As early as 3000 B. C. , sheets and rolls of papyrus provided an ideal surface for writing with reed pen and cakes of carbon black and red ochre pigment. Egyptian scribes were able to record on papyri everyday details such as administrative records, legal documents, and letters of business and personal life. Equally important for our understanding of ancient Egypt, pen and papyrus were used to record literary texts, tales, and moral instructions, as well as compendia of Egyptian knowledge exemplified by the famous Rhind Mathematical Papyrus and the books of treatment, prescriptions, and recitations for healing. Religious hymns and litanies are recorded, as are the great formulae to secure life after death--the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead. In this book, Richard Parkinson and Stephen Quirke freshly examine the methods of papyrus-making and its different uses, not only under the Pharaohs, but also other Egyptian civilizations such as the Hellenistic kingdom of the Ptolemies and the colonial rule of the Roman Empire. Papyrus remained the writing material of the Mediterranean world until it was eclipsed by the cloth paper of the Orient in the ninth century A. D. , bringing four thousand years of writing tradition to an end.
1968Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [2], 76, [1] p., b/w plts. Eski Misir mimarisindeki nisbetler. / Sanat ve tabiatta matematik armoni.
1912Pages unopened. Light tanning to pages. ; Vorträge Der Theologischen Konferenz Zu Giessen 34; 26 pages
1957Pictorial boards. Light sheflwear. ; 122 pages
2003New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In French. 152 p. Regard de l'historiographie Ottomane sur la Revolution Française et l'Expedition d'Egypte: Tarih-i Cevdet
2001Full of mystery and myth, sensual imagery, sharp observation and surprise, Marina Warner's compelling new novel unfolds a story of civil war, dispossession and survival that sweeps the reader from a turbulent past into a troubled present. Inspired by classical romance, crusader chronicles, Victorian adventures and contemporary events, 'The Leto Bundle' retells the story of the eternal refugee in a dramatic modern novel of huge scope and imaginative force. 408p. Maps on endpapers, Remainder mark, else fine. Book
1997336 p., 3278 lots illustrés en n/b. Couverture pliée. Inv. 34846
201964 p., 44 lots illustrés en coul. Inv. 44478
200764 p., 270 lots la plupart illustrés en coul. Inv. 24934
198645 p., 22 pl. n/b Inv. 44633
1983155 p., 605 lots en partie illustrés en n/b, et coul.Inv. 44637
1982118 p., 453 lots en partie illustrés en n/b, qq. ill. coul.Inv. 44632