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1972667011972. CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY. HISTORICAL RELICS UNEARTHED IN NEW CHINA. Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1972. Square 4to. white cloth; color and black & white illustrations. Some spotting to cloth. In Chinese with English text pamphlet laid in. Very good in a glassine dust wrapper and lightly worn cardboard slipcase. unknown books
192590130London: Issued at the Edwards Library University College 1925. Paperback. Very Good. 12 3p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20cm. <br/><br/> Issued at the Edwards Library, University College paperback books
195617805Louvain: Université de Louvain Institut Orientaliste 1956. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume I: xvi 192 pp illustrations. Volume II: xxxiv 163 pp xxiii illustrations. Orignal printed wrappers. Both volumes have unopened pages light shelf wear; else clean and sound. Text is in French. DNB: "In 1926 Philby settled in Jiddah Saudi Arabia founded a trading company Sharqieh Ltd and became a close friend and an unofficial adviser of Ibn Sa'ud. Business exploration writing and Ibn Sa'ud's councils were henceforth the pattern of his life. Commerce however was only his bread and butter: his true interest was exploration. Over the next thirty years he made a series of remarkable journeys of which the greatest was his crossing of the 'empty quarter' in 1932. On these journeys he travelled by camel and later by car. By day he collected place names temperatures compass bearings barometric pressures rocks fossils flora and fauna and ancient inscriptions. At night he wrote them up in his diaries squatting in the sand by lamplight and hiding his work from his suspicious Arab escort. These journeys and the many books articles and lectures in which he described them are a monument to his scholarship industry and endurance and won him high honour with the Royal Geographical Society the British Museum Kew Gardens and academic societies all over the world." Université de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste paperback books
199923408Oxford: Oxbow Books. As New. 1999. Hardcover. 1900188627 . Number 1 in The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes series. Illustrated . First edition. As new in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Oxbow Books hardcover books
19271622London: Seeley Service & Co 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 348 pp illustrations publisher's catalogue with index. Light general wear to boards including a short less than 1 inch tear at base of spine name on front free endpaper minimal toning to illustrations and surrounding pages; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. The title page describes this volume as "an account of the treasure-hunt for the buried art wisdom & history of the Ancient East from the Nile to Babylon the adventures disappointments & triumphs of the hunters & the knowledge thus acquired of the Ancient World." Seeley, Service, & Co hardcover books
184719213Gotham New York: Published by Gas Green & Ginger Shinglesign Square 1847. First edition. Wrappers somewhat dust-soiled a bit creased and worn with a small tear from the blank rear wrapper near the gutter; a very good copy. Original printed yellow wrappers 7.5 x 4.5 inches 24 pages. This but a sample of the game / Of humbug play'd by those who came / From English urinated scum-- / Debauch'd by brandy beer and rum-- / Bankrupt in character and sense / Though lacking naught in impudence." From the New York City bookseller and sometime politician and author of his own travel book on Egypt a scathing satirical attack in verse against the English-born Egyptologist and adherent to the racist theory of polygenesis George R. Gliddon. Sabin 16362n: "Two fierce poetical satires on Park and Gliddon bearing the titles of 'Humbuggiana' and the 'Spawn of Ixion' . . . are also attributed to Mr. Cooley. Published by Gas, Green & Ginger, Shinglesign Square, unknown books
185219206Buffalo: A. M. Clapp & Co. Book and Job Printers 1852. A later version of this popular pamphlet. Somewhat soiled and a bit worn; a very good copy. Original printed tan wrappers 8.38 x 5.5 inches 16 pages. We will not say as the Athenians said of their nation that the first inhabitants of America were created when the sun was first lit up in the sky but we suppose they early reached this continent from the east." From the indefatigable lecturer on the topic of the supposed early Norse settlement of New England first published as early as 1839 as A Lecture on the Discovery of America by the Northmen Five Hundred Years before Columbus; Davis drew extensively on his own excavation of mounds in the Ohio Valley as well as other relics and ancient accounts to suggest Norse settlement of America from an early date. The Norse roots of Queen Victoria and the vigor of the Scandinavian stock are taken as given and in passing. With numerous testimonials to the interest and entertainment value of Davis's lectures. Sabin 18792 this edition. A. M. Clapp & Co. Book and Job Printers, unknown books
2003284816New York: Hatherleigh Press 2003. First. hardcover. very good/fine. Color Illus. Square 8vo black cloth d.w. New York: Hatherleigh Press 2003. Very good<br/><br/> Hatherleigh Press unknown books
198430477Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good . Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 387 pp. Stated first edition. Illustrated in color and black and white. With a foreword by Linda Schele. A handsome very good copy in lovely unclipped dustwrapper. A large and heavy volume. University of New Mexico Press hardcover books
172599hardcover. Numbers I - XXIV. Each volume is illustrated in b/w throughout the text. Published by Andre Grabar & Jean Hubert. 4to. The first 3 volumes are bound together in green cloth all others are in the original brown printed wrappers. Paris: Imprimerie Nationsale - Editions Klincksieck 1945-1975. Very good to near fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
182326881London 1823. hardcover. very good. Most are reprints from the journal Archaeologia. 11 plates including 1 in color 2 folding maps. 198pp. 4to contemporary manuscript inscriptions. 3/4 burgundy morocco rubbed. London 1823-1855. Very good.<br/><br/> Articles by members of the Society of Antiquaries including F. W. L. Thomas & J. Y. Akerman.<br/><br/> unknown books
186011631Cincinnati: Moore Wilsatch Keys & Co 1860. Soft cover. Very Good. Disbound article pp 808-825 from Bayard Taylor's Cyclopaedia of Modern Travel: A Record of Adventure Exploration and Discovery for the Past Sixty Years. Illustrated with 3 small engravings and one full page map of Assyria and Mesopotamia Illustrating Layard's Explorations. Some light to moderate foxing in the margins none on the map. Provides a useful summary of both Layard's first 1845 and second 1849 excavations at Ninevah. Moore, Wilsatch, Keys & Co paperback books
