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Sather Classical Lectures (46) "The ancient Greeks devoted a significant portion of their poetic and artistic energy to exploring themes of death. Vermeule examines the facts and fictions of Greek death, including burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the value of heroic death in battle, the quest for immortality, the linked powers of death, sleep, and love, and more." 270p. illus. bibliography. index An exceptionally clean crisp copy Book
1982481881982. United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. The United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals 1972-1982. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1982. Original cloth light shelfwear internally clean. Ex-library. Stamp to rear free endpaper. $45. unknown books
23869Lausanne, Georges Bridel 1874, 260x205mm, 39pages, broché. Rousseurs sur couverture.
"People of the Lassithi plateau of Crete, mountain farmers or shepherds, are adapting to their roles as Grekas and Europeans. Open to new constraints and opportunities, offering hospitality to tourists from all over the world, they remain "Lassithiots". Anthropologist Sonia Greger has spent ten years finding out how they handle change while retaining their traditional identity. 52p. plates.maps. Book
cm. 15,5 x 21, vi-356 pp. Biblioteca di ?Lares? 595 gr. vi-356 p.
Book shows light wear to covers, foxing to page ends only. Binding is solid and square, covers have two lightly bumped corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for inscription from previous owner on front endpaper. Chapters include: Description of the parish, and a note on its weather; Man's influence on the flora and fauna; History; Local government and social conditions in the 18th century, Architecture, Farming, past and present, Salt, The village joiner eighty years ago, Speech, Folk-lore, Customs, Place and field names, Sport and pastimes, Mammals, Water-birds, Birds of field, woodland and garden, Butterflies and moths, Flora, List of birds, etc. 34 color photos, 48 b&w. 278 pages.
1910R240001460LIBRAIRIE ARMAND COLIN. 1910. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. 320 pages. 1er et 2e plat détaché de l'ouvrage. Manque dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 382.7-Douanes
2241Sans lieu, Brun, (1790). In 8, 24 pp.
2278Sans lieu ni date (1791). In 4° de 28 pp. (mouillures tout du long).
243400Paris, Firmin Didot, 1860 in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., 52 pp., broché sous couverture imprimée.
663302Neuilly-sur-Seine, Assoc. pour l'histoire de l'administration des douanes, 1976 in-8, 212 pp., ill. in.-t. dont à pleine page, cartes et tabl. in-t., broché, couv. ill.
117140Paris, Marcel Rivière, 1935 in-8, XI-402 pp., index, bibliographie, broché.
2008100136545Eland Publishing Ltd 2008 132 pages 13 6x1 4x21 2cm. 2008. Broché. 132 pages.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interion is clean and free of marking of any kind. Good, solid, clean reading copy. 223 pages, first published in 1911, the intro lists about 250 books that were consulted in the writing of this one. Heavily illustrated.
New English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (32 x 24 cm). In Turkish. 537 p. B/w and color ills. A very heavy volume. Osmanli Döneminde Mudanya Iskelesi ve Gümrügü.
New New English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English. 206 p., color and b/w ills. Contents: Voyage to the Dawn-Place of the European Sun., Enis Batur; Dallam's travels, Master Thomas Dallam; Van.; Frederick Millingen.; Covel's diary., John Covel.; Raki diluted with water, James Dallaway.; Cities: Constantinople, Arthur Symons.; An organ for the Sultan, Stanley Mayes.; Voyage from Liverpool to Constantinople, Hermann Melville.; The vampires of Istanbul, Edourd Roditi.; The Palimpsest city, Juan Goytisolo.; Kitten with claws, Godfrey Goodwin.; Orient express, John Dos Passos.; The city of tomorrow, Le Corbusier.; Constantinople, Theophile Gautier.; Constantinople - Eight poems, Victoria Sackville-West.
270X215 mm. 67 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners worn. Cover stained. Spine slightly damaged. Spine edge missing. Gilt spine. Ex library copy with usual marks. Several pages age stained - no damage to text. Stickers on rear inner cover and last white page. Several pages loose. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
154p. 8vo. Original coarse linen cloth binding. Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, Volume XXII. Tells of Pennsylvania German and Moravian marriages based on the casting of lots and drawing of straws. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 86 pages; index; fold-out map. Red cloth cover with gilt decoration and title. Previous owner's name in pencil. Black and white photographs with tissue guards. Thick, creamy deckle-edged paper. A very pretty book about the author's travels in Cashmere on a dunga
Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 3 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately. . Volume 3 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as "smiths, cutlers, armourers, mining, charcoal making. house-builders, cabinet-makers, turners, musical instrument makers, potters, glass-workers. druggists, collectors of simples. weavers, glovers, sock-makers, cordwainers, tanners, hatters, dyers of purple. fishermen" 475p. Book
Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 2 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately.Volume 2 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as " Marriage, women, dress, housing, furnishing, food, entertainment and also of rural life including gardens, orchards, vineyards,,agriculture, pastoral life." 433p. Book
Facsimile of the edition first published by Richard Bentley in 1842 NOTE: This is part 1 of a 3 volume set - and will NOT be sold separately.Volume 1 is stuffed with fascinating details on such things as " People and their customs, places Athens, Sparta, children,toys, education,sports, hunting, philosophy, arts, literature, religion" 424p. Book
DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has wear to corners. Front inner hinge is cracked exposing webbing. Book is still solid. ; Describes burial customs and attitudes toward death in the ancient Roman world-- pagan, Jewish and Christian. First deals with burial rites and tombs among the Etruscan antecedents of the Romans, then gives an account of beliefs in the Roman era of life beyond the grave and the problems of the widespread change from cremation to inhumation. Chapters on practices, cemeteries, tombs, funerary gardens, gravestones, and tomb furniture. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 336 pages
63-5716London UK: Eldridge 1891. Framed and matted engraving signed in ink. 12" x 9" Good with toning & creasing. London, UK: Eldridge, 1891. unknown
Ex- library book with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text is clean. Color and b&w drawings, very detailed.
