Archaeology And Ancient History from Duck Cottage Books

Oxford: Oxford, 1934. 2nd. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 1685 4to. Mushroom-coloured dust jacket (protective wrapper), brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, "Second edition revised, enlarged and in great part rewritten", 492 pages, many plates and folding maps. Condition notes: Age-spotting to end papers and external edges of text block, dust jacket (in protective cover) unclipped, grubby, boards a… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1881. First edition. Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. 1245 4to. Title continues: A Record of Archaeological Researches in the Alignments of Kermario. A sequel to the author's earlier publication on work in the area, this was intended to be followed by others, but Miln died while this second book was bing prepared for publication. … Read more about this item

Middlesex UK: Penguin, 1951. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 285 . Red cloth-covered boards, 283 pages plus publisher's advertisements/catalogue. A scarce cased copy of this translation by S A Handford, in dust jacket. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little tired (spine darkened and edges rubbed/chipped) but sound. Book clean and tidy.

Washington, USA: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 1213 8vo. Selected papers of William Henry Holmes, edited and introduced by David J. Metzler and Robert C. Dunnell. Condition notes: Covers a little worn, external page edges grubby, internally clean and firm.

London: Macmillan, 1981. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 1811 Folio. From the Olmecs to the Maya-Toltecs. A large format, well produced book, profusely illustrated with plans, diagrams and colour photographs. First edition in English, translated by Peter Graham. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little edge worn, book clean, sound and bright.

London, 1807. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 2581 Folio. containing two hundred and forty-six engravings of topographical objects, of which one hundred and twenty-two no longer remain. This work contains copies of manuscripts which throw new and unexpected lights on the ancient history of the arts in England." This copy has tipped in to the front… Read more about this item

Book Club Associates, 1978. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. 479 8vo. Co-author Michael Weitzman. With 16 pages of photographs, notes to each chapter and including an irresistible chapter on the interpetation of cuneiform. The story of the identification and excavation of the site in northern Syria, and the deciphering of the 20,000 cuneiform tablets found there. Condition notes:… Read more about this item

Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1913. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1661 4to. With 440 illustrations in the run of the text, 6 tables, 4 maps (some fold -out) and plans. Co-authors Franz Poland and Richard Wagner. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles and decoration. Coloured frontis of two of the Fayum portraits. Condition notes: Boards a little bumped, with some… Read more about this item

London, 1918. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 563 8vo. Includes several coloured plans of churches. Much faded blue blind-stamped cloth-covered boards, gilt decoration and titles. Condition notes: Externally, boards very faded but only a little knocked and rubbed. Binding firm. Previous owenr's bookplate to front paste down.

London: G. And J. Robinson et al, 1805. Hardback. Poor/No Jacket. 491 8vo. A new edition. What remains of the binding is calf. Condition notes: Top board detached. Rear board missing. Spine intact but very rubbed. Rear free end paper detached but text block otherwise intact and firm, with age-tanned but clean pages. … Read more about this item

London: Piatkus, 1997. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 1317 4to. A series of essays, illustrated with photographs, maps and charts. Edited by David Silverman but with each chapter written by a scholar specialising in the period or topic on which they write. Condition notes: Some soiling and bumping to dust jacket (unclipped). Book clean, bright and sound… Read more about this item

Paris, 1820. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 272 12mo. With four fold-out maps, borders coloured. Leather, marbled page edges, marbled end papers. Prize inscription in ink to verso of front free end paper, dated 1824. Condition notes: Leather rubbed, otherwise binding attractive and sound. End papers faded. Maps clean, sound and bright.

Paris, 1771. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 252 12mo. Leather, 5 raised bands, marbled page edges, marbled end papers. Ownership stamp, not recent, to title page. I can find no sign of the map mentioned in the title. Condition notes: Lacks map. Leather rubbed,otherwise binding attractive and sound. End papers faded.

Paris: Alphonse Picard et Fils, 1904. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 3382 8vo. Two volumes, 1902 and 1904, I Architecture Réligieuse, II Architecture Civile et Militaire. Quarter leather, red marbled boards, marbled end papers. Many illustrations- line drawings, plans and photographs. Volume 2 has a gift note, on headed paper from the Institut de France Académie de… Read more about this item

London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1832. Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. 2189 4to. Half leather on marbled boards, gilt titles. All plates present, including two coloured; many of the illustrations referred to as vignettes by Gell are present as tipped-in mini-plates. Condition notes: Plates overall in very good condition, with blank leaves as guards (not tissue guards); there is a… Read more about this item

1994. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 607 4to. Co-editor Ruth Peled. Published by the Library of Congress, Washington, In association with the Israel Antiquities Authority. This special printing was prepared on the occasion of the exhibition of Dead Sea Scrolls at the Vatican Apostolic Library, 30th of June 2 Second of October 1994. As well as coloured photographs of… Read more about this item

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Poor. 426 8vo. Red cloth covered boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and several monochrome plates. Condition notes: Boards a little faded towards the edges, otherwise clean, sound and bright. Dust jacket tatty.

London: Hutchinson, 1958. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 372 8vo. With eight plates from photographs and plans and drawings in the run of text. 131 pages plus a section on further reading and an index. Condition notes: Dust jacket a little chipped along edges, with some spots of foxing to verso, but book clean, bright and sound.… Read more about this item

New York: Philosophical Library, 1953. First Edition. Hardback. Good/Poor. 769 4to. Includes many photographs of sites and finds. Ranging in time and space from the Stone Age in Palestine, the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, Sumer, Akkad and Egypt through to a history of ancient India and a chapter on "The Cretan Problem". Written just before Michael Ventris's publication… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1957. First Edition. Hardback. Good/Fair. 871 8vo. Many photographic illustrations. Condition notes: A clean, bright, sound copy in a tatty dust jacket. Previous owner's name to front free end paper. The short chapter on further reading at the end has a few ink asterisks in the margins, otherwise the book is clean and bright.… Read more about this item