African / Egyptian Art from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Random House, 2023. xx, 426 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time--an international campaign to save over a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 2022. 349 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Maps on lining papers. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirring story of one of the great feats of exploration… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Cloth, vi, 202 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tips lightly bumped. Fine DJ. "In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek culture had been stolen from Africa and that Jews were responsible for the… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 2007. xiii, 462 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful,… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Cloth, 199 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. Wonders of the World Series. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The Rosetta Stone is one of the world's great wonders, attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year. This book tells the Stone's story, from its discovery by Napoleon's expedition to… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. Cloth, 322 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "In this fascinating work, H. W. F. Saggs presents a wide-ranging survey of the greatest achievements of the ancient civilizations of the Near and Middle East - from the… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 447 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "No museum in the world is like the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and no man has ever run it, or revolutionized it, quite like Thomas Hoving. In a decade, Hoving… Read more about this item

Berlin: Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Michael Imhof Verlag, 2012. Pictorial boards, 495 pages, illustrations (colour); 28 cm. Accompanies the Exhibition "In the Light of Amarna - 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery" from December 7, 2012 to April 13, 2013. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly… Read more about this item

Gizeh; Giza: Abydos Publications, 2010. 1 volume [96 pages], colour illustrations; 22 x 22 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First edition. Profusely illustrated. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. xv, 234 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Reprint of the 1901 edition, issued as volume 2 of Books on Egypt and Chaldaea. Tight, clean copy. "Sums up all that is known about magic Ancient Egypt: the role of magic in controlling the gods, powerful amulets that warded off evil spirits, scarabs of immortality, use of… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City, UT: Simpkins Souvenirs, 1982. 24 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, map; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Salt Lake City, UT: Simpkins Souvenirs, 1982. 24 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, map; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Includes Roman fortress Babylon, Al Moallaka, Abu-Serge, Coptic Museum.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Salt Lake City, UT: Simpkins Souvenirs, 1982. 24 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, map; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Includes Roman fortress Babylon, Al Moallaka, Abu-Serge, Coptic Museum.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Salt Lake City, UT: Simpkins Souvenirs, 1982. 24 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, map; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Includes views of Gayer Anderson Museum.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Salt Lake City, UT: Simpkins Souvenirs, 1982. 24 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, map; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. vi, 275 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), map; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A survey of how, over the past 4000 years, religious leaders, poets, painters and others have visualized… Read more about this item

New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1981. Cloth, 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Introduction; PART ONE: THE PHYSICAL BACKGROUND; The geography of Africa; PART TWO: THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND; Languages and peoples; Religions; Yoruba… Read more about this item

Florence: Bonechi, 1996. 191 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. English Edition. Translated from the Italian. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small corner crease/back cover. Another copy available. Profusely illustrated. . Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Berkeley, CA: Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, 2011. 100 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977. xlv, 231 pages, [54] leaves of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. An unabridged republication of volume 1 of the work The tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, originally published by Cassell and Company, Ltd., London, 1923. Tight, clean copy. Browning. With 105 Illustrations. "This book captures the painstaking,… Read more about this item