Antonin, Arkhimandrit

I Rumeeii

St. Petersburg, Russia, The Imperial Academy, 1886. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Exceedingly scarce Russian-language volume no copies of which appear to be available on-line at present. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and still pretty sturdy, with some beginning separation to rear gutters but still tightly bound throughout. Marbled paper over boards, printed paper label over front cover (and that says 1886 for a date of publication, though the field survey appears to have taken place in 1865), blue cloth-backed. Some toning to pages. Slightly wavy text block Bumping to and a bit of scuffing to spine head, less to its tail. Russian language extensive survey and account of an archaeology season's diggings in 1865, being an architectural and archaeological voyage through Rumalia by a Russian clergyman (1817-1894). The area is now part of contemporary Rumania. 652 pp. and 18 lithographic plates in black-and-white and duotone.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 348339

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Keywords: Russian language|Arkhimandrit Antonin|archaeology

H. C. Broholm, William P. Larsen, Godtfred Skjerne

The Lures of the Bronze Age: An Archaeological Technical and Musicological Investigation

Copenhagen, Denmark, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Though 72 years old, virtually pristine of interior, being handsomely printed in publisher's original illustrated softpaper wraps, with original glassine wraps, and still in the original publisher's cardboard slipcase. Many leaves are unopened along top edges. 129 pp. then 30 additional full-page plates. Tall quarto in size, measuring 13" x 10" tall and wide, respectively. This scholarly monograph takes Bronze Age wind instruments seriously, with a focus on "lur" or "lurr" (with and without finger-holes) that are of Nordic origin and found in and between Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway and to a lesser extent in Germany and Latvia. High-quality, high-gloss paper on which plates are printed.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 349645

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Keywords: Danish archaeology|Bronze age |wind instruments|H.C. Broholm|W.P. Larsen|G. Skjerne

Borges de Figueiredo, A.C. and M. Alexandre de Sousa

Revista Archeologica E Historica, Publicacao Mensal, Volume I, 1887, Volume II, 1888

Lisboa, Portugal, Adolpho, Medsto & Ca., . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available of this Portuguese-language journal of science and discovery, history and archaeology, much less a Presentation Copy thereof (see below). Two volumes bound as one, combining 1887 and 1888 in one volume. Marbled paper over boards, cream leather over tips, spine, gilt lettering over labels on two cloth labels in two compartments. Age-toning to text, very light soiling here and there, but marbled endpapers, very tight binding, and marks of neither highlighting nor underlining anyway. Five raised bands, very handsome volume overall. The tome came from the personal library of Amour-Auguste-Louis-Joseph Berthelot, Baron de Baye, born January 31, 1853 in Paris, died in the same city on August 21, 1931, a French archaeologist and traveler and who even contributed to one of the volumes (see below). A French-language Wikipedia article about him has it that â€oeJosephâ€� was the son of Auguste and Georgina Wilkinson of British origin. Wealthy enough to escape the rigors of military service, he eventually â€oediscoveredâ€� archaeology when on a hunt with his father. He began a collection of cut flint from the Plateau de la Vieille Andecy and began real studies at the end of 1871, and was eventually tutored by Father Alphonse Bordé (1824-1899). He participated first in an archaeological congress in Moscow, in 1890, and continued to do so until the declaration of the First World War. Arrested twice and eventually imprisoned, he was released in 1920 following the intervention of Natalia Sedova, Trostky's second wife. He enjoyed a long and distinguished career in archaeology and became president of the Société des Antiquaires de France in 1906. Pasted in is a fine condition short note to him from the senior editor, in French and in written with an extremely fine pen, and with his pleasantries and credentials added at end. Replete with black-and-white, monochrome, duotone and one full color illustration, being a folding map. [17], 18-186 [errata sheet]; [iii], iv [1], 2-188 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 349689

Catalogue: Archaeology and Archaeologists

Keywords: Revista Archeologica e Historica

Darvill, Timothy

Prehistoric Britain

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Bound in blue cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket present, protected by paper-backed Brodart, mildly soiled along edges, sunned very slightly else clean and virtually unmarked. Over 100 illustrations and photographs augment this fine survey of ancient Britain's archaeology from earliest times to Roman Conquest. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-223 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 351252

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Keywords: Timothy Darvill archaeology prehistoric England British archaeology

Faulkner, Charles H.

Walkerton: A Point Peninsula-Like Focus in Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana, The Indiana Historical Bureau, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An offprint by Charles H. Faulkner from the monthly publication of the Indiana History Bulletin, from Volume 37, Number 10, 1960, being a work of ethnology and archaeology about a Point Peninsula-like site in Indiana on the private property of a farmer, including burial mounds, tool assemblages, and animal bones. Staple-bound, with black-and-white illustrations. 122-136 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 347342

Catalogue: Archaeology and Archaeologists

Keywords: Indiana Historical Bureau|Walkerton|Point Peninusula|Charles H. Faulkner|burial sites|burial mounds|archaeology

Griffith, F. Lt.

Egypt Exploration Fund. Archaeological Report 1899-1900, 1900-1901, 1901-1902, 1902-1903, 1903-1904

London, The Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund; also by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; Bernard Quaritch; and Henry Frowde, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no copies available on-line. But for a present-but-detached front board, a still sturdy and remarkably attractive bound volume comprising several volumes of the Egypt Exploration Fund. The E.E.F. was founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole of London, and they expressed their aim to study ancient Egypt and perform archaeological surveys and excavations. Through the research wing of the E.E.F., thousands of Egyptian artifacts were legally brought back to Britain. In 1919, the E.E.F. changed its name to the Egypt Exploration Society [E.E.S.], and they continued to do and to sponsor the doing of archaeological surveys and excavations. All volumes have been collated as complete. Bound in a pretty burgundy marbled paper over boards, tips and spine bound handsomely in a creamy brown leather, with gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers front and rear. The volumes cover the five years of the reporting period, 1900-1904, and come complete with illustrations and maps. Articles by luminaries such as D. Randall-MacIver, A.C. Mace, N. de G. Davies, F. Ll. Griffith, the editor, F.G. Kenyon, W.E. Crum, W. Max Muller, Arthur J. Evans, and others. Plentiful illustrations in black-and-white and reproduced on high-gloss paper. Laid in are the bonus pamphlets from the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, Report of the Fifteenth Year, Eighteenth Year, and the Twentieth Year,Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 349783

Catalogue: Archaeology and Archaeologists

Keywords: E.E.F. Egypt Exploration Society Ancient Egypt|E.E.S.|Egypt Exploration Fund|archaeology

Hull, Edward

Memoir on the Geology and Geography of Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Adjoining Districts, with Special Reference to the Mode of Formation of the Jordan-Arabah Depression and the Dead Sea

Lond, Richard Bentle & Son for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1886. First Edition. . Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published in London by Richard Bentley & Son, for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration, 1886, Good condition overall. Brownish burgundy cloth covers, blind-stamped edges and borders, gilt-stamped lettering (saying Western Palestine) and illustrations to cover, still sharp and distinct, with heavily rubbed gilt lettering and illustration to spine, being the official logo of the Palestine Exploration Fund). Bookplate from the New-Church Theological School inside front flap, their ink-stamp at title page. Hand-colored map, four-paneled, also at frontis, one fold split, creased, outlining the Geological map of Lower Egypt, Arabia Petraea and Palestine, drawn by the author. Eight-paneled map bound in inside rear flap, titled â€oeMap of the Wady el Arabah from the surveys of Major Kitchener,â€� and then reduced by Major George Armstrong. Several other folding maps bound in at rear, only very mildly worn or soiled, though one of them shows a split and is detached in two halves. viii + 2 + [3]-145 pp., including index, with frontis illustration and a folding map, and several additional folding maps sewn in at rear. The Palestine Exploration Fund exists to this day, being a British society based in London but that founded back in 1865, shortly after the completion of a key ordnance survey of Jerusalem. A The P.E.F. is apparently the oldest known organization in the world that was founded so as to study the â€oeLevant,â€� a.k.a. Palestine.Scarcely available to the trade, there being currently no copies available on-line, and only scattered copies available in academic libraries.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345325

Catalogue: Archaeology and Archaeologists

Keywords: Edward Hull|Western Palestine|British colonialism|archaeological excavation|archaeology|ethnology

Mackenzie, Duncan

Palestine Exploration Fund, 1911, Excavations at Ain Shems, (Beth-Shemesh)

London, By order of the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; ex-library, withdrawn from the New Church Theological School, with ink-stamps and accessions to interior, but greatly unobtrusive, and none exterior. Gray paper over boards, black cloth-backed, and with sharp writing in black to covers, gilt to spine. Written by one of the leading members of the Palestine Exploration Fun, and illustrated by plans and drawings by Francis G. Newton and also by photographs in black-and-white of pottery and other objects found in the excavations. Published in London by the Offices of the Fund, 1913, Very Good condition overall, in quarto format, grainy gray paper over boards, black cloth-backed. Some moderate wear and tear to boards, tips, extremities. Eleven illustrations overall. 100 pp. + plates + (2) + 102-04 pp., including a full index, and then considerable lists of prior, related publications. The black-and-white photographs are quite remarkable, as is the full-color plate of a painted Philistine vase from the Central City area and another one, also fine, at frontis. I: The Megalithic Monuments of Rabbath Ammon at Amman. II: The Excavations at Ain Shems, 1911. III: The Khazneh at Petra. Illustrated by plans and drawings F. G. Newton. Tall quarto format, 110 pp. 17 plates, 40 text-illustrations, index. Very light rubbings to extremities, else a remarkably attractive copy of a scarce book at all, much less in this condition.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 345329

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Keywords: Duncan Mackenzie|Palestine Exploration Fund|Francis G. Newton|Palestine|Ain Shems|Beth Shemesh|British Colonialism|archaeology|archaeological excavation

Pendergast, D.M.

Excavations at Eduardo Quiroz Cave British Honduras (Belize)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Royal Ontario Museum, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Brown and tan wraps, printed, and featuring analysis of faunal material by Howard G. Savage. 17 black-and-white photographs, lists of illustrations, tables, plates, several chapters, then index, select bibliography, and notes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 348105

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Keywords: D.M. Pendergast|Belize|Central America|archaeology|British Honduras

Petrie, W.M. Flinders

Tell El Hesy (Lachish)

London, Alexander P. Watt, for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. An extremely scarce item indeed in this state (being a signed Presentation Copy) from the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Bound in the original stiff gray card stock wraps and that are chipped and sunned, but internally quite sturdy of binding and clean and unmarked of appearance; additionally, two chips are laid in. The Tell el-Hesi site comprises a 25-acre walled city in Palestine from the Early Bronze III period. It is located on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean coastal plain, 26 km northeast of Gaza in Israel. A Wikipedia article about the site says that the "Tell el-Hesi was the first Palestinian site at which the principles of ceramic chronology and of stratigraphic excavation were applied and at which the relationship between pottery and stratigraphy was shown to be significant. In 1890 W.M. Flinders Petrie excavated at Hesi and produced a general picture of its occupational history. In 1891-92, F.J. Bliss excavated stratigraphically through each successive level of the mound and identified eleven occupational levels which he grouped into eight strata or 'cities'." In 1970, The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi, sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and a consortium of educational institutions, entered the site with the objectives of investigating in greater detail and with more refined methods the stratigraphic divisions identified by Petrie and Bliss." This item is the fourth contribution to the Joint Expedition's series of final publications regarding their field experience and findings. 62 pp., including notes and bibliography. Withdrawn from the New Church Theological School.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 345672

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Keywords: signed|W.M. Flinders Petrie|Tell El Hesy|Palestine Exploration Fund|James Elaisher|Theodore J. Wright

Rowe, Alan, ed.

Cyrenaican Expeditions of the University of Manchester, 1955 - 57

Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Comprised of an account of the excavated areas of the cemeteries at Cyrene and of objects found in the field season of 1952, combined with descriptions of the coins excavated. Edited by Alan Rowe and with a contribution by John F. Healy. turdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn and soiled panels but for a short, closed tear to upper edge. xiv, 34 pp. of text, and then voluminous plates, printed on black-and-white and full color, including some fold-out illustrations. Fine frontis illustration in full color. Essay by John F. Healy, "Descriptions of the Coins.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Keywords: Alan Rowe John F. Healy Cyrenaican Expeditions University of Manchester archaeology

De Saulcy, Louis-Felicien-Joseph Caignart

Memoire Sur la Nature Et L'Age Respectif Des Divers Appareils de Maconnerie Employes Dans L'Enceinte Exterieure Du Haram-Ech-Cherif de Jerusalem, Tome XXVI, 1st Partie

Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale, 1865. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution in the French language to the magisterial collection of social sciences and humanities literatures in France, Memoires de l'Institut Imperial de France, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, this being Tome vingt-sixième. Scarce in the trade, there being currently only a single additional copy available on-line. This essay is devoted to the ancient stone-work of and at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as holy a site for Jews as for Muslims and Christians. Original marginalia at first page says that the essay was delivered first in lectures on the 25th of April, 1862, then twice in May on the 2nd and 9th, and then a second lecture was delivered in April of 1864 on the 7th, 12th, 21st, and 28th. The author, Louis Felicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (born on 19 March 1807 – 4 November 1880), a.k.a. Felicien or Felix de Saulcy, was, according to a Wikipedia entry about him, "a French numismatist, Orientalist, and archaeologist." The text-block measures 8" x 10" wide and tall, respectively, paginates to [1], 2-81 pp., disbound from a larger volume, comprised of a number of not-bound-together signatures but that fit tightly onto one another, suitable for an easy rebind. Printed on a soft rag paper, being clean, unmarked of interior and remarkably free of foxing or soiling. All 11 original folding leaves present, comprised of duotone lithophotographic plates. Original images by Auguste Salzmann. In duotone, each plate measuring 14 1/4" wide by 10" tall, with tight margins, each bearing the imprimatur of Lemercier & Cie, all quite lovely, each bottom right-hand corner saying "Procede Poitivin," denoting their production by the uber-influential French chemist-civil engineer-photographer Alphonse Louis Poitevin (1819 – 1882) who discovered, says a Wikipedia entry about him, "the light–sensitive properties of bichromated gelatin and [who] invented both the photolithography and collotype processes . . . ," thus facilitating greater if not also mass production of photographs. Each plate is titled at top "Haram Ech-Cherif," and are titled at bottom-centre as follows: 1) "Baie en Balcon au Dessus du Cedron" (Balcony Bay Above Cedron"); 2) "Angle Sud-Est du Haram" (Southeast Corner of the Haram); 3) "Moulure Judaique en Place, a la Triple-Porte" (Judaic Molding in Place, at the Triple Door); 4) "Fouilles au Pied de la Triple Porte" (Excavations at the Foot of the Triple Gate); 5) "Mur de Manasses" (Manasses Wall); 6) "Heit-El-Morharby, Sanctuaire des Juifs" (Heit-El-Morharby, Sanctuary of the Jews); 7) "Arche Ruinee du Pont du Xystus" (Ruined Arch of the Xystus Bridge); 8) "Interieur du Haram-Ech-Cherif, Base de la Tour Antonia" (Interior of Haram-Ech-Cherif, Base of the Antonia Tower); 9) Porte Doree A l'Interieur du Haram Ech-Sharif" (Golden Door Inside Haram Ech-Sharif) (title is severed horizontally); 10) Porte Doree A l'Interieur du Haram Ech-Sharif" (Golden Door Inside Haram Ech-Sharif); 11) "Porte Sous El-Aksa" (Door Under El-Aksa). Overall, a lovely item in scarce supply, with original and quite striking illustrations. No O.C.L.C. libraries currently hold copies.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Keywords: Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart De Saulcy|Jerusalem|Haram-Ech|Cherif de Jerusalem|French language|archaeology

De Saulcy, Louis-Felicien-Joseph Caignart

Memoire Sur Les Monuments D'Aaraq-El-Emyr

Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale, 1867. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution in the French language to the magisterial collection of social sciences and humanities literatures in France, Memoires de l'Institut Imperial de France, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. No copies available currently on-line, an essay devoted to Iraqi monumental architecture following the pioneering work there of an expedition led by M.M. Charles-Leonard Irby and James Mangles of the Royal Britannical Navy in 1817 and 1818. The author, Louis Felicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (born on 19 March 1807 – 4 November 1880), a.k.a. Felicien or Felix de Saulcy, was, according to a Wikipedia entry about him, "a French numismatist, Orientalist, and archaeologist." The text-block measures 8" x 10" wide and tall, respectively, paginates to [1], 83-117 pp., with lots of lovely black-and-white illustrations and letterings, disbound from a larger volume, comprised of a number of not-bound-together signatures but that fit tightly onto one another, suitable for an easy rebind. Printed on a soft rag paper, being clean, unmarked of interior and remarkably free of foxing or soiling.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 347863

Catalogue: Archaeology and Archaeologists

Keywords: Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart De Saulcy|Jerusalem|Iraq|Iraqi monuments|French language|archaeology

Spear, Nathaniel, Jr.

A Treasury of Archaeological Bells

New York, Hastings House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and gorgeously illustrated compendium of the archaeological discoveries of bells in ancient cultures such as the Lurs, Assyrians, Babylonians, Urarteans, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Irish, among others. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 309 pp., with bibliography and lavishly illustrated in full color and black-and-white.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 349219

Catalogue: Archaeology and Archaeologists

Keywords: Nathaniel Speark, Jr.|archaeology|bells|art history|ancient art history

Toy, Sidney

A History of Fortification from 3000 B.C. To A.D. 1700

London, England, Heinemann, 1966. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Massively well illustrated in black-and-white, both drawings and photographic reproductions, printed on high-gloss paper, quite fine. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Black cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, price-clipped. Purple-stained top-edge. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations throughout. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxiv, 1-280 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Book number: 353009

Catalogue: Archaeology and Archaeologists

Keywords: architecture fortification Sidney Toy European history