Between Continents/Between Seas: Precolumbian Art of Costa Rica
New York: Harry N. Abrams/The Detroit Institute of Art, 1981. Soft cover. 4to. Soft cover. 240 pp. Copiously illustrated. Sunned to extremities, else fine. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams/The Detroit Institute of Art, 1981. Soft cover. 4to. Soft cover. 240 pp. Copiously illustrated. Sunned to extremities, else fine. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue cloth. Map endpapers. xviii, 296 pp. [1] fold out table. B&W illustration in text. Spine ends sunned, minor bruising to corners. Dust jacket is age toned, lightly edge worn. More
Perugia: Edizioi Jama Perugia, 1997. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 126 pp. Colour illustrations and reproductions in-text. Fine condition. The Tables of Iguvium are an exceptional text, unique in their kind. They are an open window putting the reader in direct touch with the ancient world. A window viewing not..... More
Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, 1976. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 9.5" x 11" Soft cover. 616 pp. Fully illustrated. Covers lightly bumped to extremities, else fine. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1978. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Ancient Culture and Society. Soft cover. 143 pp. [4] pp. B&W photos. Covers lightly age toned, else fine. More
Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. First Ediition. Soft cover. 12mo (tall). xiii, 159 p.p. [5] full page illustrations and figures, with numerous in-text. Three small bumps along head of rear cover. Light wear to head and tail of spine and edges. Some sporadic scratches and scuffs to covers, but otherwise fine..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1924. Hardcover. 8vo. The Origins of Architecture. Orig. green cloth, gilt decoration to spine. xvi, 252 pp., [2]. B&W frontis. B&W illustrations in text. One fold-out B&W map. Rubbing to cloth (a little worse at corners), a few stains. Bumping to spine ends. Some..... More
Geneva: Ferni Publishing House, 1979. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Quarter black paper, faux compartments, gold paper boards. Pictorial endpapers. Gold ribbon marker. T.E.G. 261 pp. [6] double-sided plates, plus tipped-in frontis. Boards bowed, else fine. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. x, 311 pp. B&W maps in text. Fine. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1827. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quarter red leather, black leather spine label, marbled paper boards with original title label laid down. Recently professionally rebound. New endpapers with orig. list of author's works laid down. Twenty-one folding colour maps, [34]..... More
New York: Arkana, 1991. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Volume I of The Masks of God. Soft cover. xv, 504 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Fine. More
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Orig. grey cloth. xxxiii, 85 pp. Fully illustrated, mostly in colour. Foxing to cloth, spine tilted. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn with a few small chips and short tears, 1.5" tear..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Full brown cloth. 135 pp. Ninety-four illustrations in full colour + 1 map. Fine. In December 1994, in the Ardeche Valley of southeast France, three explorers chanced upon the hidden entrance to an..... More
Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1941. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. maroon cloth. xxi, 236 pp. Colour frontis. w/ tissue guard. Copiously illustrated in B&W. Spine cocked, bruising to corners, a few small spots of soiling. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Full black cloth, white stamped titles to spine. 200 pp. Full colour illustrations. One tiny spot of staining to both front and rear boards, else fine in fine jacket. In 1991, a professional..... More
Cambridge, MA: Burndy Library, 2009. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 383 pp. Fine. Nearly every empire worthy of the name - from ancient Rome to the United States - has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks - giant standing stones, invented in..... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1974. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xxiii, 570 pp. [12] B&W illustrations. Light rubbing to extremities, a few creases. More
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 2001. Printed card covers, staple bound. 68 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Fine. More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1943. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. maroon cloth. Genealogical chart to endpapers. xi, 410 pp. [8] B&W plates. Cloth is stained, spine sunned, corners bumped, a few small spots of wear. Toning to interior, some light sporadic soiling. Light wear to front pastedown. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full grey paper boards. 99 pp. Some discolouration to extremities of dust jacket, else fine. More
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. orange cloth. xxv, 456 pp. Copious B&W photos and maps in text. Very light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, lightly bumped and rubbed to spine ends and corners. Professor Finegan's vivid and accurate..... More
Rome: Pontificum Institutum Biblicum, 1955. Hardcover. 4to. Analecta Orientalia 35. Three volumes in one. SIGNED with inscription by author to Will Oxtoby on first title. xv, 361 pp. Quarter leather over cloth boards, gilt title to spine, original front card cover and section titles bound in. Minor wear to extremities..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Compagnie, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo [super]. Tome XXIII, Fascicule 3 & Tome XVIII, Fascicule 5. Two volumes bound in one, original wrappers bound in. Orig. burgundy cloth. 348-520; 701-834 pp. Spine tilted. A few spots to cloth. Toning to interior. Chips to original wrappers, worse to Fascicule 5..... More