Ancient Civilizations
A General History of the World, From the Creation to the Present Time. Including All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States; their Revolutions, Forms of Government, Laws, Religions, Customs and Manners; the Progress of their Learning, Arts, Sciences, Commerce and Trade; Together with Their Chronology, Antiquities, Public Buildings, and Curiosities of Nature and Art. With A Complete Index to the General History of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time [13 vols]
London: Printed for J. Newbery, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder, J. Coote, R. Withy, J. Wilkie, J. Wilson and J. Fell, W. Nicoll, B. Collins, and R. Raikes. Bowen, Emanuel (maps). 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1764-1767. No edition listed, no known editions earlier than 1764..... More
Wonders of the Past: The Marvels of the Vanished Civilizations [4 vols]
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Four volumes, 1923-1924. Orig. green cloth, gilt titles, blind stamped floral borders. xxvi, 255; xxvii, 256-555; xxii, 557- 819; xxiv, 820-1180. With more than 1500 illustrations, including 100 full page plates in colour. One of the most beautifully illustrated works ever..... More
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
London: Turnstone Books, 1979. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Revised edition. Soft cover. 276 pp. B&W illustrations. Covers slightly sunned, spine tilted. More
Major Cities of the Biblical World
Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to ffep. Full grey cloth. x, 292 pp. B&W illustration in text. Short tear and some creasing to foot of front joint of dust jacket, else fine. Essential to our understanding of the biblical text is a knowledge..... More
Ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian Costumes and Decorations
London: A. & C. Black, Limited, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. tan stamped cloth. xii, 89 pp. B&W illustrations and colour tipped-in plates in text. Extra-illustrated with clippings pasted to front endpapers and half-title. Some foxing to half-title. Spine darkened, rubbing and bumping to extremities, some light general soiling..... More
From Lucy to Language
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full red paper boards. 272 pp. Principal photography by David Brill. Fine. In 1974 in a remote region of Ethiopia, Donald Johanson, then one of America's most promising young paleoanthropologists, discovered "Lucy," the oldest, best preserved skeleton of any erect-walking..... More
Man Before Metals
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1892. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. Orig. red publisher's cloth. vii, 365 pp. Spine sunned, damp stained and worn to spine foot, chipped to spine head. Stain to head of front board, chafing to extremities. Bookplate..... More
A History of the Vikings
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Revised edition. Full black paper boards. xviii, 504 pp. [24] pp. B&W illustrations + B&W illustration text. Some light edge wear to dust jacket, one short tear to foot of front cover. First published..... More
Costume in Antiquity
London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. 8vo. First paperback edition. Soft cover. 139 pp. With 480 illustrations. Spine tilted and creased, damp stain to upper rear corner, wear to foot of front joint. More
Primitive Society
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. green pebbled cloth, gilt titles. viii, 453 pp. Light rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Else fine. More
The Archaeology of the Holy Land: From the Destruction of Solomon's Temple to The Muslim Conquest
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xiv, 385 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine. More
The Table-Talk of a Mesopotamian Judge
London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. INSCRIBED "with the translator's compliments" to H.L. Henderson, and dated Jan 1923. Oriental Translation Fund, New Series, Vol. XXVIII. Orig. black cloth. viii, 300 pp. Spine shaken, sunning tos pine and boards, wear to corners. Offsetting to endpapers. Some neat..... More
The Treasury of History: Comprising a General Introductory Outline of Universal History, Ancient and Modern and a Series of Separate Histories of Every Principal Nation
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1870. Hardcover. 16mo. Half contemporary goatskin, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering and blind tooling to compartments. Marbled edges and endpapers. 820 pp. Spine slightly faded, some minor rubbing to boards and extremities. Light damp staining to tail- and fore-edges of frontis and title page. Fine..... More
Ancient Israel's Faith and History: An Introduction to the Bible in Context
Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xx, 284 pp. Small scuff to foot of text block. Else fine. More
Babylon
Baghdad: Ministry of Information, Directorate General of Antiquities, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8.5" x 7.75" Soft cover, staple bound. [40] pp. Fully illustrated, mostly in colour. Age toning to covers, rubbing to spine, some rubbing inside covers. This booklet is the first in a series to be published by..... More
Secrets of the Stones: New Revelations of Astro-archaeology and the Mystical Sciences of Antiquity
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1989. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 128 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Fine. More
Precolumbian Terracottas
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969. Hardcover. 18mo. Translated from the original Italian. Full grey cloth. 158 pp. Seventy-one plates in text in full colour. Light sunning to edges. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned, chipped and creased at top edge of rear cover. More
The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth. 201 pp. Fine condition. More
An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients (1762)
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1970. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Augustan Reprint Society Number 139. Orig. tan card wrappers, staple bound. viii, lxxxiv, [7] pp. Small bump to spine head, else fine. More
Plagues, Priests, and Demons: Sacred Narratives and the Rise of Christianity in the Old World and the New
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xiii, 290 pp. Fine. More
The World of Thought in Ancient China
Cambridge, MA & London: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter teal cloth, grey cloth boards. 490 pp. Some light white spotting to spine head. Dust jacket is bumped to extremities, sunned to spine, offset panel to rear, 1" tear to foot of front cover..... More
Atlas Pour l'Histoire Universelle
Paris: Furne & Fruger et Brunet, 1836. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Half morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt spine decoration. Marbled endpapers. Twenty double-page map spreads designed and engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, featuring plans of the cities of Athens, Sparta (ruins), Carthage, Jerusalem, Syracuse, Rome, and Constantinople..... More
Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to. Soft cover. 309 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Spine cocked, corners lightly bumped, edge toned to interior, else fine. More
A Short History of the Near East, From the Founding of Constantinople (330 A.D. - 1922)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue cloth. xvii, 408 pp. Spine sunned, edges rubbed. Dust jacket is price clipped, darkened and cracked to spine, large perforation and some chipping to ends. Chips, short tears, and tape repairs to edges and corners. More