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Wanderings Through Ancient Roman Churches


Lanciani, Rodolfo

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Very Good, 325 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with fraying to board edges & spine. Gilt titles to cover & top edge. Full page, black & white photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature to front fly leaf and pages untrimmed. Foxing to preliminary pages and endpapers. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750245


Price: $25.00 

Will of Zeus, The: A History of Greece from the Origins of Hellenic Culture to the Death of Alexander (SIGNED)Barr, Stringfellow
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Will of Zeus, The: A History of Greece from the Origins of Hellenic Culture to the Death of Alexander (SIGNED)


Barr, Stringfellow

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear, chipping, punctures and fading. Inscribed on title page by author.

Record # 2230675


Price: $31.00 

 

Wings Over Hellas


Schoder, Raymond V.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, color photographs. Edgewear to dust jacket. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454802


Price: $12.00 

 

Wisdom Tree, The


Hawkridge, Emma

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 504 pages. Hardcover with fold out timeline tipped in to rear. Light tanning to spine. Tender front board hinge. Light toning to edges & profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Very thin pages, small tears to 4 pages, & wrinkles to lower right corner of pages 305 - 318. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean & with beautiful illustrations.

Record # 751237


Price: $19.00 

 

World of Thought in Ancient China, The


Schwartz, Benjamin I.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 490 pages. Paint marking/underlining in pencil on a few pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn with light rubbing, chipping to edges.

Record # 453827


Price: $15.00 

 

World Prehistory: In New Perspective


Clark, Grahame

Hardcover. US, Cambridge University Press, reprint , 1977-12-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465972


Price: $25.00 

 

Year 1000, The - What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium


Lacey, Robert & Danny Danziger

Boston, Little Brown , 4th printing, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Dust jacket is really a belly-band.

Record # 305442


Price: $15.00 

Year One : Art of the Ancient World East and West, TheN/A
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Year One : Art of the Ancient World East and West, The


N/A

Hardcover. US, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 466973


Price: $25.00 

 

Zakros - The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete


Platon, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket spine faded. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611739


Price: $15.00 

A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i by: Kirch, Patrick Vinton
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A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i by: Kirch, Patrick Vinton

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2nd Pr., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 346 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear, but is still in good condition. Blue paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, as well as a bind-in halfway through with full-color photography. This lively, accessible chronicle works back from 1778, when the British explorers encountered an island civilization governed by rulers who could not be gazed upon by common people. Interweaving anecdotes from his own widespread travel and extensive archaeological investigations into the broader historical narrative, Kirch shows how the early Polynesian settlers of Hawai'i adapted to this new island landscape and created highly productive agricultural systems. Clean copy. Record # 34124
Price: $25.00 

Ancient Medicine by: Edelstein, Ludwig
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Ancient Medicine by: Edelstein, Ludwig

Softcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. Paperback. Previous owners signature at top of title page. Cover surface has cut(?) line on right side. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 510785
Price: $12.00 

Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitents of the Southwest by: Weigle, Marta
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Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitents of the Southwest by: Weigle, Marta

Softcover. Sante Fe, NM, Ancient City, 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Very good pictorial wrappers. Record # 804302
Price: $12.00 

Carthage: A Mosaic of Ancient Tunisia by: Khader, Aicha Ben Abed Ben/David Soren
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Carthage: A Mosaic of Ancient Tunisia by: Khader, Aicha Ben Abed Ben/David Soren

Softcover. New York, AMNH/Norton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with photographs and reprpductions in color and black & white. Cover shows light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 510070
Price: $12.00 

Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by: Green, Jonathon
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Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by: Green, Jonathon

Hardcover. US, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1996-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 465939
Price: $12.00 

Chi Nei Tsang: Internal Organs Chi Massage by: Chia, MantakChia, Maneewan, Illust. by: Li, Juan
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Chi Nei Tsang: Internal Organs Chi Massage by: Chia, Mantak Chia, Maneewan, Illust. by: Li, Juan

Hardcover. Huntington, NY, Healing Tao Books, Revised Edition, 1st Print, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages plus The International Healing Tao System Catalog, in soft cover. Blue covers are lightly bumped, but still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book details an ancient Taoist system for detoxifying and rejuvenating the internal organs. Master Chia teaches readers how to avoid absorbing negative energies from others and take full charge of their health through the self-healing techniques of Chi Nei Tsang. Previous owner's inscription is present on the title page in blue pen, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34034
Price: $12.00 

Civilization Before Greece and Rome by: Saggs, H. W. F.
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Civilization Before Greece and Rome by: Saggs, H. W. F.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1989-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, rubbing and creasing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462479
Price: $12.00 

COMING OF ROME 55 B. C. to 449 A. D., THE: Third Book in the Britain Before the Conquest Series. by: Wacher, John
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COMING OF ROME 55 B. C. to 449 A. D., THE: Third Book in the Britain Before the Conquest Series. by: Wacher, John

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Illustrated throughout text with ancient Roman artifacts. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt. Color pictorial dust jacket. Record # 220589
Price: $12.00 

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean by: Christofi, Alex
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Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean by: Christofi, Alex

Hardcover. London, UK, Bloomsbury Continuum, 1st, 2024, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 332 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with one closed tear on the bottom edge, and a peeling price sticker on the rear cover. Teal cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, as well as a bind-in halfway through with full-color photography. This book is an evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Cyprus: where the ancient olive trees of Homer's time exist alongside the undersea cables which provide the world's internet. It combines the political, cultural, and geographical history of Cyprus with reflections on time, place and belonging. A remainder dot is present on the bottom edge, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34121
Price: $12.00 

Death and Life in the Tenth Century by: Duckett, Eleanor
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Death and Life in the Tenth Century by: Duckett, Eleanor

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 359 pages. B&W maps. Record # 304523
Price: $12.00 

DNA and the I Ching: The Tao of Life by: Yan, Johnson F.
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DNA and the I Ching: The Tao of Life by: Yan, Johnson F.

Softcover. Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book extrapolates on a startling correlation between ancient knowledge and ultramodern science. Dr. Yan did postdoctoral research on the computational chemistry of biopolymers at Cornell University. His current interest is in the interpretation of DNA and protein sequences. Clean copy. Record # 34036
Price: $12.00 

Eskimo Prehistory by: Bandi, Hans-Georg
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Eskimo Prehistory by: Bandi, Hans-Georg

Hardcover. Anchorage, University of Alaska Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages w/ index. Brown cloth. Map end papers. Previous owner's signature on back of front fly leaf. Two prelim pages cut out. Otherwise, clean, unmarked, tight. B/W photos throughout. Record # 803885
Price: $12.00 

Forest of Kings, A - The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by: Schele, Linda and David Freidel
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Forest of Kings, A - The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya by: Schele, Linda and David Freidel

Paperback. N Y, Morrow, 1st wraps, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color, black & white photos, many black & white line drawings. 542 pages. Crease to rear wrap otherwise VG Record # 60607
Price: $12.00 

Forgotten Traditions of Ancient Chinese Medicine: A Chinese View from the Eighteenth Century by: Unschuld, Paul U.
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Forgotten Traditions of Ancient Chinese Medicine: A Chinese View from the Eighteenth Century by: Unschuld, Paul U.

Softcover. Brookline, MA, Paradigm Publications, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains Chinese text throughout. This book is a translation of the I-hsueh Yuan Lie Lun from 1757. It provides a window into the mind of a brilliant Chinese scholar-physician who practiced medicine in China just prior to the introduction of western ideas. Previous owner signed their name in blue pen on the title page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34044
Price: $25.00 

Glyphbreaker by: Fischer, Steven R.
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Glyphbreaker by: Fischer, Steven R.

Hardcover . New York, Copernicus, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 234 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469337
Price: $12.00 


  
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