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A Time of Gods - A Photographer in the Wake of Odysseus


Beny, Roloff

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st , 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 148 photogravure plates of Greek ruins. Dj with big crease

Record # 53550


Price: $50.00 

 

Adventure of Modern Art : Similarities and Differences in Art Images Primitive, Ancient, and Modern


Bihalji-Merin, Oto

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 512649


Price: $26.00 

 

Aegean Art


Demargne, Pierre

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 447 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sun fading to spine. Clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white and color images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471032


Price: $75.00 

 

Altars & Icons


Nix, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, Dillon Gallery Press, 1st, 1997`, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. Colorful plates of ancient altars and iconography. Slight scuffing to lower front panel. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952400


Price: $25.00 

 

American Porcelain: New Expressions in an Ancient Art


Herman, Lloyd E.

Softcover. Forest Grove, OR, Timber Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Magazine clippings laid in. Bottom right front cover corner bent. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850374


Price: $12.00 

 

Ancient Americas, The: Art From Sacred Landscape


Townsend (Ed.), Richard F.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Bound in black fabric with gilt title on spine and front cover. Other than a bit of foxing on top edge, clean inside. In very good condition. Published to accompany exhibit at art Institute of Chicago, October 10, 1992-January 3, 1993.

Record # 30945


Price: $38.00 

 

Ancient Glass in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston


von Saldern, Axel

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st , 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 94 pages. Illustrated with color, black & white photos. Minor wear, soil to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 502829


Price: $16.00 

 

Ancient Greek Dress


Abrahams, Ethel & Lady Evans and Marie Johnson (ed)

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Argonaut, Inc., Publishers, 1st American, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket has a clean illustration and clear text on the back. Small smudge on the back of the dust jacket and minor wear on the edges. Tight binding, with minor rubbing along the spine, and pages in excellent condition.

Record # 806789


Price: $25.00 

 

Ancient Hebrew Arts


Reifenberg, A.

Hardcover. New York , Schocken Books, Inc., 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 171 pages. Map of locations of archeological interest in rear. Previous owner's embossed stamp. B&W illustrations throughout. Divided into six periods. Minor edge and surface wear to dust jacket. Overall clean copy.

Record # 809417


Price: $12.00 

 

Ancient Painting - From the Earliiest Times to the Period of Christian Art


Swindler, Mary Hamilton

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press. , 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in black & white, 5 color plates. 487 pages + 646 photos, 16 plates in rear. Previous owner's inscription, bookplate on front pastedown. End papers tanned.

Record # 500060


Price: $70.00 

 

Angkor;: An essay on art and imperialism


Myrdal, Jan

Hardcover. US, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1970-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463900


Price: $15.00 

 

Antique Chinese Portraits


N/A

Hardcover. Milan, Italy, Arti Grafiche Ricordi, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Printed on satin. This green satin-covered book holds 10 loose-leaf portraits and has its own brown cloth slipcase. In the slipcase, its size is 14" x 18". Issued w/out dj.

Record # 803815


Price: $192.00 

 

Antiquities: Tuesday 9 December 2008


Christie's

Softcover. New York, Christie's, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, 188 lots illustrated in color. Egyptian, Greek, Roman sculpture and artifacts.

Record # 403896


Price: $20.00 

 

Apxn - Notes and Papers on Archaic Studies - No. 1


Sheehan (Editors), Donald and Carol

Softcover. Franconia, Center for Archaic Studies, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages. Softcover. Yellow pamphlet style cover with age toning to edges & sunfading. Faint toning to edges throughout. Clean & tight copy.

Record # 750901


Price: $25.00 

 

Apxn - Notes and Papers on Archaic Studies - Transformation of Archaic Images No. 6


Doty (Editor), William G.

Softcover. Franconia, Center for Archaic Studies, First Edition, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Softcover. Blue covers with light sunfade to top edge & spine. Tonig faint foxing top edge. Clean & tight copy.

Record # 750900


Price: $23.00 

 

Apxn - Notes and Papers on Archaic Studies No. 4 and 5


Sheehan (Editors), Donald and Carol

Softcover. Franconia, Center for Archaic Studies, First Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Softcover. Red covers with gilt printed decoration & titles to cover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 750899


Price: $25.00 

Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British MuseumCurtis, J.E., and J.E. Reade

Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum


Curtis, J.E., and J.E. Reade

Softcover. London, The Trustees of the British Museum / British Museum Press Ltd., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 brilliant pages, laden with illustrations of Assyrian art and artifacts from The British Museum collection. 215 color and 33 black and white illustrations in addition to one map. Beautiful full-color cover with minor wear at corners only. Illustrated title page and half-title page. Crisp text pairs nicely with this rich visual collection. In very good condition overall.

Record # 806592


Price: $70.00 

 

Art in the Ancient World: A Handbook of Styles and Forms


Amiet, P.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st Am, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 567 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453977


Price: $12.00 

 

Art of Ancient Egypt, The


Ranke (Ed.), Hermann

Hardcover. Vienna Austria, Phaidon, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 22 pages of text, 333 b&w plates, 8 tipped-in color plates plus index. Small (paint?)drop to rear cover otherwise bright, tight copy.

Record # 602674


Price: $26.00 

 

Art of the Western World, from Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism


Cole, Bruce and Adelheid Gealth

Hardcover. New York, Summit Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages. Gray boards, red cloth spine with gilt titles, color illustrated endpapers, over 300 color and b&w illustrated plates, introduction by Michael Wood. Extremely light wear to dust jacket; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806057


Price: $12.00 

 

Art, Myth, and Culture: Greek Vases from Southern Collections


Shapiro. H. A.

Softcover. New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, in conjunction with Tulane University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460378


Price: $31.00 

 

Arts of Assyria


Parrot, Andre

Hardcover. New York , Golden Press, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 380 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The second volume in The Arts of Mankind Series edited by Andre Malraux and Georges Salles. Dust jacket with light chipping, edgewear. Minor soil to edges of textblock.

Record # 405872


Price: $44.00 

Aztec Empire, TheSolis, Felipe

Aztec Empire, The


Solis, Felipe

softcover. New York, Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Softcover. Color photographs throughout. Light edge wear to wrappers.

Record # 468484


Price: $25.00 

 

Babylonians: Peoples of the Past (Vol. 1)


Saggs, H. W. F.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With 2 maps, 12 color and 84 black and white illustrations. The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the 'fertile crescent' between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium BC, laid the foundations of Western civilization. Gave way to many fundamental developments in human society,

Record # 471177


Price: $15.00 

 

Birth of Greek Art, The


Demargne, Pierre

Hardcover. New York , Golden Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 447 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Edgewear, rubbing and light soil to dust jacket with slight chipping to edges of spine. Faint foxing throughout text and on edges. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper.

Record # 856773


Price: $25.00 

 

Carthage: A Mosaic of Ancient Tunisia


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: $9.00 

Cave Paintings Of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown PeopleCrosby, Harry W.

Cave Paintings Of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People


Crosby, Harry W.

Hardcover. San Diego, Calif., revised, February 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages, color photographs and illustrations throughout, illustrated end paper. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451401


Price: $40.00 

Celts, TheKruta, Vencesclas

Celts, The


Kruta, Vencesclas

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 800 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Wear to dust jacket. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Over 1100 illustrations, 800 in color. A tight copy.

Record # 471522


Price: $63.00 

 

Ceramic Art of Great Britain, The: From Prehistoric Times Down to the Present Day, Being a History of the Ancient and Modern Pottery and Porcelain Works of the Kingdom and of their Productions of Every Class (2 vols.)


Jewitt, Llewel

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, Welford Armstrong , 1st US?, 1878, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 531, 569 pages. Green cloth, spine label with gilt lettering. Foxing to end papers of both volumes. Half title page in volume 2 torn in half. Black & white illustrations throughout both. Top edge gilt. Spines cracked.

Record # 804335


Price: $64.00 

 

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


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: $11.00 

 

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya


Miller, Mary/Simon Martin/Kathleen Berrin

Hardcover. Thames & Hudson, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Front cover of dust jacket with fading along edges - approximately 1" wide from top to bottom. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612364


Price: $44.00 

 

Crete and Mycanea


Marinatos, Spyridon

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, rep., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 177 pages + index, illustrated throughout with 52 plates in full color and 369 illustrations in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with tearing and light chipping along edges. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856768


Price: $75.00 

 

Cylinder Seals of Western Asia


Wiseman, D.J.

Hardcover. London, Batchworth Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 122 pages, b&w illustrations and photographs by B. and W. Foreman. No date. Dust jacket with light edgewear. In a cardboard slipcase with a name and light tape repair. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 405168


Price: $31.00 

 

Die Plastik Der Agypter


Fechheimer, Hedwig

Hardcover. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer Verlag, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 b&w plates of Egyptian art/artifacts, GERMAN text

Record # 2982


Price: $35.00 

 

Evolution of Artistic Form, The: Ancient Sculpture from Western Mexico.


Alsberg, John L., Rodolfo Petschek,

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Nicole Gallery, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 128 pages. Folio sized black cloth cover with minor bumping and wear to edges and spine. Gilt lettering on spine, and gilt design on cover. Dust jacket with edgewear, small tears. Some foxing along spine on front endpaper, otherwise inside is bright and clean, pages are card stock, and many b&w photographs of sculpture throughout.

Record # 852585


Price: $60.00 

 

Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art from the N.P. Goulandris Collection


Doumas, Christos and Lila Marangou

Softcover. Athens GR, Benaki Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, softcover exhibition catalog, b&w illustrations. Previous owner

Price: $31.00 

Gift of the Nile: chronicles of Ancient EgyptRoberts, Timothy Roland

Gift of the Nile: chronicles of Ancient Egypt


Roberts, Timothy Roland

Hardcover. New York, MetroBooks, 1st, 1998, 176 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Illustrated title page. Gilt titles on spine. Some edge wear to dust jacket and top edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469027


Price: $25.00 

GlyphbreakerFischer, Steven R.

Glyphbreaker


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: $11.00 

 

Golden Age of Justinian, The


Grabar, Andre

Hardcover. New York , Odyssey Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket with light chipping to edges of spine. Faint foxing to edges, dust jacket flaps, and pages. Reading copy.

Record # 856775


Price: $38.00 

 

Great Sculpture of Ancient Egypt


Michalowski, Kazimierz

NY, Reynal & Co./Morrow, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages, 100 b&w, 32 color illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 602590


Price: $13.00 

 

Grosse Kulturen Der Fruhzeit - Die Nordgermanen


Oxenstierna, Eric Graf

Softcover. Stuttgart, Gustav Kilpper, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 104 photo plates, mostly black & white, some color. 269 pags. German text. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Cardboard slipcase.

Record # 67376


Price: $6.00 

 

Grosse Kulturen Der Fruhzeit - Die Weit der Kelten


Moreau, Jacques

Softcover. Stuttgart, Gustav Kilpper, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 104 photo plates, mostly black & white, black & white maps. 269 pages. German text. Cardboard slipcase

Record # 67378


Price: $6.00 

 

Grosse Kulturen Der Fruhzeit - Die Welt der Bibel Fonf Jahrtausende in Palastina-Syrien


Jirku, Anton

Stuttgart, Gustav Kilpper, 2nd, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages of black & white photos. 257 pages. German text.

Record # 67367


Price: $6.00 

 

Grosse Kulturen Der Fruhzeit - Die Welt der Hetbiter


Riemschneider, Margarete

Stuttgart, Gustav Kilpper, 3rd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 108 pages of black & white photo plates, fold-out map.259 pages. German text.

Record # 67369


Price: $6.00 

 

Grosse Kulturen Der Fruhzeit - Ur, Assor und Babylon - Drei Jahrtausende im Zweistromland


Schmokel, Hartmut

Softcover. Stuttgart, Gustav Kilpper, 3rd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 118 black & white photo plates, fold-out map. 302 pages. German text. Plain cardboard slipcase.

Record # 67375


Price: $6.00 

Handbook of Greek Art: A Survey of the Visual Arts of Ancient GreeceRichter, Gisela

Handbook of Greek Art: A Survey of the Visual Arts of Ancient Greece


Richter, Gisela

softcover. New York, Plume, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Adhesive residue on rear. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470504


Price: $13.00 

Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)Dreyfus, Rene

Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)


Dreyfus, Rene

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 page. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470505


Price: $44.00 

Herculanum et Pompei: Recueil General des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaiques, etc., decouverts jusqu'a ce jour, et reproduits d'apres le Antichita Di Ercolano, Il Museo Borbonico et tous les ouvrages analogues... (7 Volumes)Aine, H. Rou

Herculanum et Pompei: Recueil General des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaiques, etc., decouverts jusqu'a ce jour, et reproduits d'apres le Antichita Di Ercolano, Il Museo Borbonico et tous les ouvrages analogues... (7 Volumes)


Aine, H. Rou

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Fermin Didot Freres, reprint, 1870, Book: Fair, Seven volumes, covers and spines on most are fair to poor, but the bindings are all sound and holding, complete with all the fabulous plates (over 750), illustrating the art and architecture of ancient Pompei. Vol I: Peintures, Premiere Serie: Decoration Architecturales, [xxiii] 134 pp. 108 pl.; Vol. II: Peintures, Deuxieme Serie: Compositions de Plusieurs Figures, 263 pp. 90 pl; Vol. III: Peintures, Deuxieme et Cinquieme Series: Tableaux, Paysages, 104 pp. 59 pl + 49 pp. 55 pl; Peintures, Troisieme Serie: Figures Isolees, 230 pp. 122 pl; Vol. V: Peintures, Quatrieme et Sixieme Series, 111pp. 60 pl + 45 pp. 32 pl; Volume VI: Bronzes, Premiere Serie: Statues, 213 pp. 110 pl; Vol. VII: Bronzes, Deuxieme et Troisieme Series: Bustes, Lampes, 69 pp. 22 pl. + 230 pp. 100 pl. Many of the plates are signed Ade (Adolphe) Bouchet, most are by Henri Roux ain

Price: $625.00 

 

Highland Clans, The: Sir Iain Moncreiffe of That Ilk


Moncreiffe, Iain

Hardcover. New York, NY, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with genealogy chart to endpapers. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with only light, marginal wear to edges. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & white. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout, "traces the developmen of Highland life and customs from ancient Celtic times up to the present day...information about dress and dwellings, games and gatherings, superstitions and religions, arms and armor, music and dancing." Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 751536


Price: $38.00 

History of Mosaics, AAnthony, Edgar Waterman

History of Mosaics, A


Anthony, Edgar Waterman

Hardcover. Boston, Porter Sargent, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth, gilt stamped titles. 333 pages plus 80 full page b&w plates. Index, bibliography, glossary. In a very good dust jacket with mild edgewear, spine lightly darkened. The 15 chapters present mosaics and their history, mostly focusing on the ancient, classical, and medieval worlds. The last 2 chapters consider post-renaissance and modern mosaics. Rear cloth board with light residue along edge otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 411245


Price: $88.00 

 

Idea of the Labyrinth From Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages, The


Dood, Penelope Reed

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, Second Printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles to spine. Illustrated in black & white, featuring images of Cretan-style stone labyrinths, Roman mosaics, European turf mazes, ancient manuscripts, paintings & poetry. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy.

Record # 750856


Price: $63.00 

 

Italian Gothic Sculpture


Pope-Hennessy, John

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 228 pages, 100 b&w photographs, blue cloth covers in a lightly chipped dust jacket.

Record # 405875


Price: $38.00 

 

Japanese Temples: Sculpture, Paintings, Gardens, and Architecture


Kidder, Jr., J. Edward

Hardcover. Tokyo/ New York , Bijutsu Shuppan-sha/Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Very good in an excellent acetate dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 405873


Price: $188.00 

Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties: Woodblocks from Adventure StoriesBrown, Kendall, H (Editor)

Japanese Warriors, Rogues and Beauties: Woodblocks from Adventure Stories


Brown, Kendall, H (Editor)

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Heroes, villains, and damsels in distress abound in these richly colored, dramatic images from the Japanese equivalent of dime-store novels. These illustrations were selected from woodblock-printed covers and frontispiece illustrations from 64 popular books published in Osaka from 1898 through 1903. They include samurai and strong men, demons and detectives, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, and other vivid characters in scenarios ranging from romantic to grotesquely violent. Printed in the color woodblock method in use since the late eighteenth century, they provide a link between an ancient storytelling tradition and the beginning of mass-published popular literature.

Record # 471560


Price: $23.00 

 

Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXIII & Volume XXIV


Journal of Hellenic Studies

Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1903 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1903 and 1904) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1903: 373 pages plus 13 full-page b&w and color plates. Part two for 1904: 354 pages plus 14 b&w (including 2 fold-outs). Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.

Record # 405369


Price: $188.00 

 

Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXV & Volume XXVI


Journal of Hellenic Studies

Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1905 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1905 and 1906) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1905: 382 pages plus 13 full-page b&w plates and 1 color fold-out. Part two for 1906: 303 pages plus 16 b&w and 2 color plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.

Record # 405368


Price: $188.00 

 

Journal of Hellenic Studies: Volume XXXIII & Volume XXXIV


Journal of Hellenic Studies

Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1913 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1913 and 1914) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1913: 410 pages plus 22 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1914: 362 pages plus 20 b&w plates. Plus a 164 page catalogue of lantern slides in the Society's collection. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.

Record # 405367


Price: $188.00 

 

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes - Volume Thirty-Two


Gombrich, E. H./J. B. Trapp, D. P. Walker, Anthony Blunt, Frances A. Yates, T. S. R. Boase, & George Zarnecki

Softcover. London, The Warburg Institute, 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Softcover. Light foxing to a few pages & edges. Heavy toning to covers & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout, including foldout image of the Lintel, Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Commentary by Simplicius on Euclid's Elements is illustrated in Arabic, with accompanied translations. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750371


Price: $44.00 

 

Kimbell Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection


Robb, Jr., David M.

Softcover. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Foundation, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of the Kimbell Art Museum. 275 pages; color cover; mostly black & white plates; some color plates. Introduction by David M. Robb, Jr., chief curator of the museum. Art collection includes ancient, medieval, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, 20th Century, South Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, African, and Pre-Columbian art. In very good condition.

Record # 401096


Price: $12.00 

 

Learning from the Greeks: An Exhibition Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Aldine Press


Babcock, Robert and Mark Sosower

Softcover. New Haven CT , Beinecke Library/Yale University, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 83 pages, softcover with dark blue paper wraps. Illustrated with reproductions of manuscripts. Clean, tight. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf.

Record # 405108


Price: $25.00 

 

Life Under the Pharaohs


Cottrell, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&w illust., dust-jacket w/lt. edge wear. 255 pgs.

Record # 125642


Price: $15.00 

 

Low City, High City - Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake: how the shogun's ancient capital became a great modern city, 1867-1923


Seidensticker, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609230


Price: $15.00 

Mastercraftsmen of Ancient PeruSawyer, Alan R.

Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru


Sawyer, Alan R.

Softcover. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 5000 copies printed. Quarto, 11" tall, 110 pages with four-color and B&W plates throughout, stiff illustrated wraps. Catalogue from the exhibition of 1968. Included is an introductory essay and the 775 works on view, each annotated, and many pictured. With examples of pottery (glazed and unglazed), carved stone, textiles, gold figures, copper and more. Charts showing chronology/regions and eras/regions are helpful in understanding the types of arts and when/where they were created. 22 color and 71 b&w plates; map end papers. Clean.

Record # 412431


Price: $13.00 

 

Masterpieces of Glass


Charleston, Robert J.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. 102 full page plates in full color. Beautifully illustrating a vast collection of the finest glass in the Corning museum ranging from ancient Egyptian, Roman, Frankish, Islamic and Bohemian through to Studio glass, with commentary to 102 plates. Folio. Cream cloth with slight yellowing to upper and lower edges, gilt lettering to spine and gilt decoration to front cover. Pictorial dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, crisp and tight copy.

Record # 804951


Price: $64.00 

 

Masterpieces of Greek Art


Schoder, Raymond V.

Hardcover. Greenwich, CONNECTICUT, New York Graphic Sociewty, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Approx. 210 pages. 96 color plates. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Pictorial dust jacket with edgewear. Blue boards. Slipcover with soiling.

Record # 850662


Price: $25.00 

 

Masterpieces of Primitive Art


Newton, Douglas

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 263 pages. Oversized. Red cloth cover, embossed design, gilt lettering, small nicks on bottom edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, worn and bumped on edges. With 254 plates in full color. Photographs by Lee Boltin. Foreword by Andre Malraux. Introduction by Nelson A. Rockefeller. From the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 853086


Price: $28.00 

 

Monks and Merchants - Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China


Juliano, Annette L./Judith A. Lerner

Softcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Slight bump to upper right corner. Clean, tight copy. International orders require additional postage due to the size and weight of this book.

Record # 608683


Price: $35.00 

 

Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Catalogue of Casts Parts I, II and II I- Ancient Sculpture


Loring (Director), Charles G.

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 369 pages, gray papers wraps. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 406128


Price: $38.00 

 

On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians: unearthed from the origins of the Latin language: including the disputation with the Giornale de' letterati d'Italia


Vico, Giambattista

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Includes extensive bibliography and index of Latin terms. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469531


Price: $38.00 

 

Pindar's Victory Songs


Nisetich, Frank J.

Softcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Softcover with bright covers, black & white printed titles & decoration to cover & spine. Title page b/w illustration, Inside of red-figured cup showing a running figure in bronze, Musee de Louvre, Paris. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750378


Price: $15.00 

 

Porcelain


Patterson, Jerry E.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages, b & w and color photos, part of The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques, prepared by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 800834


Price: $6.00 

 

Pre-Columbian Art from The Ernest Erickson Collection at the American Museum of Natural History - June 15-August 15, 1988


Couch, N. C. Christopher

Softcover. New York, American Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612398


Price: $13.00 

 

Reading Ancient Greek, part II: Appendices, Vocabulary


Ellsworth, J.D.

Lawrence, KS, Coronado Press, Inc., 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 173 pages. Soiling to covers. Light edgewear.

Record # 506507


Price: $33.00 

 

Roman Forts of the Saxon Shore, The


Johnson, Stephen

NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated with b&w illustrations, photos, diagrams. 172 pages.

Record # 600971


Price: $20.00 

 

Roman Shadows: A Novel


Burns, Ron

Hardcover. US, St Martins Press, 1st, 1992-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466370


Price: $15.00 

 

Sacred Landscapes - The Threshold Between Worlds


Davis, Lynn

Hardcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Corporation, First Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Peat cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dime sized bump to front board corner, small blemish to gutter of front flyleaf. Otherwise very clean & unmarked. Stunning full page photography in black & white, beautifully presented to accompany text. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. A very nice copy.

Record # 751102


Price: $63.00 

 

Seattle Art Museum Treasures: Four Decades of Collecting


N/A

Softcover. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial, stapled wrappers. Exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum. 28 pp., b/w illustrations. Documents five basic categories: Asiatic; Ancient Near East and Classic; Western Art; 20th Century & Northwest Art; and Tribal Arts. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 805908


Price: $8.00 

 

Technique & Personality


Mead, Margaret, Junius B. Bird and Hans Himmelheber

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages, 36 b&w plates, 2 color. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.

Record # 406855


Price: $15.00 

 

The Cultures of Mankind (4 vols)


Von Hildebrand (ed), Alice, Gary Wills, Ruth Brantl, Jilian Mates and Eugene Cantelupe

New York, Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Titles include: Greek Culture - The Adventure of the Human Spirit, Roman Culture - Weapons and the Man, Medieval Culture - The Image and the City, and Renaissance Culture - A New Sense of Order. Spines sunned. 380 pages each. Black & white photography and art. Box sunned with light wear.

Record # 205936


Price: $35.00 

 

Three Regions of Primitive Art


Kubler, George, S. Kooijman and Hallam Movius

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 77 pages, 42 b&w plates. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.

Record # 406854


Price: $15.00 

 

Tragedy of Arthur, The (SIGNED)


Phillips, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine, white cover boards and inside very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "The Tragedy of Arthur explores the tension between storytelling and truth-telling, the thirst for originality in all of our lives, and the act of literary mythmaking, both now and four centuries ago, as the two Arthurs -- Arthur the novelist and Arthur the ancient king -- play out their individual but strangely intertwined. ...Includes Shakespeare's (?) lost King Arthur play in its five-act entirety...."

Record # 30508


Price: $44.00 

 

Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics


Koyama, Fujio & John Figgess

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 377 pages. 173 illustrations, with 54 tipped-in colorplates. Large, heavy folio. Edgewear, rubbing and tearing to dust jacket with chip missing from lower edge of front cover, and small strip missing from rear cover. Faint tanning to pages. Internally very good.

Record # 857042


Price: $100.00 

 

Umeni Ctyr Svetadilu: Z Ceskych Sbirek Mimoevropskeho Umeni-Vol. 1


Formanovi, W. a B.

Hardcover. Prague, Orbis, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 325 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Volume one only of two volumes. In an edgeworn dustjacket. Text in Czech.

Record # 403214


Price: $40.00 

 

Understanding Maya inscriptions: a hieroglyph handbook


Harris, John F.

softcover . Philadelphia, University Museum Publications, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Softcover. Black and white illustrations. Light foxing, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469356


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

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

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 

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