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Archaeology :
[024467] Adams, William J. Qasr Ibrim Late Mediaeval Period . London: Egyptian Exploration Society, 1996. Folio. Cloth. Good & Sound ISBN: 0856981346. Detailed and scholarly look at this excavation, with plenty of b/w plates and some maps.Perfect quality. £15.00
[015424] Anton, Ferdinand. Art of the Maya. London: Thames & Hudson, 1978. 4to. Cloth. Good + / Good. With 365 illustrations, including 37 in colour. Inscribed in pen by owner (not by author); price-clipped jacket is also a little nicked. £50.00
[025810] Ashmore, Bernard & Nicholas Yalouris. Olympia: The Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus. London: Phaidon, 1967. 4to. Cloth. Good / Good D/w. With 212 b/w plates from photographs by Alison Frantz. Jacket a little chipped. Previous owner inscription to the FEP. £20.00
[013000] Bernard, Andre. The Road to Olympia: Origins of the Olympic Games. London: Periplus, 2003. Folio. Cloth. As New / As New D/w. with numerous colour plates. £19.95
[019459] Bruce-Mitford, Rupert. The Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 4to. Cloth. As New / As New d/w. As new. With an account of the bowls found in Scandinavia by Sheila Raven. With many b/w illustrations. £60.00
[025369] Carillo, Charles. A Century of Retablos: The Janis and Dennis Lyon Collection of New Mexican Santos 1780-1880. Phoenix : Phoenix Art Museum, 2007. 4to. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good d/w. ISBN: . With many illustrations. £20.00
[025721] Deimel, Claus & Elke Ruhnau. Jagura and Serpents. Hannover: Ethnologisches Museum, 2000. 8vo. Paperback. Good & Sound With colour & b/w illus £15.00
[024761] El-Baz, Farouk. Wadis of Oman Satellite Image Atlas. London: Stacey International, 2002. Folio. Cloth. Mint / Mint. ISBN: 9781900988568. 222 pages. Originally published price is £245.00. Lavishly detailed atlas that provides information on the wadis of Oman, based on the study and analysis of satellite images. £45.00
[020080] Faccenna, Domenico & Giorgio Gullini (ed). Reports on the Campaigns 1956-1958 in Swat (Pakistan) / Sculptures from the Sacred Area of Butkara I; Volumes I, II.2, II.3. Rome: Instituto Poligrafico Dello Stato, . Folio. Cloth. Good / No Jacket. 1962-1964. 3 volumes in original red cloth. Volume I: Reports and Memoirs; Plates I-CCCXXXV: Volume II.2; Plates CCCXXXVI-DCLXXV: Volume II.3. With numerous b/w plates, and with maps in pocket at rear. Photographs, text and maps are in fine condition.Text in English. £120.00
[024465] Fejfer, Jane. Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture Volume 2 Roman Male Portraits . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997. Folio. Cloth. Good & Sound / Good & Sound. ISBN: 0853238324. Second part in a five volume work, this is a priceless collection to art historians.Good b/w reproductions and superb text on each piece.Perfect condition. £20.00
[015388] Frazer, Alfred. Samothrace 10: The Propylon of Ptolemy II. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980. 4to. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good D/w. Complete in 2 vols, with numerous b/w plates and illustrations. £35.00
[012999] Goddio, Franck, et al. Alexandria: The Submerged Royal Quarters. London: Periplus, 1998. Folio. Cloth. Fine / Fine D/w. in slipcase, with numerous colour plates and b/w illustrations. £29.95
[025814] Grabar, André & Carl Nordenfalk. Romanesque Painting from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries. Geneva: Skira, 1958. 4to. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good d/w. in slipcase, 99 colour plates; covers mural painting & book illumination £30.00
[025104] Karageorghis, Vassos . Early Cyprus Crossroads of the Mediterranean . Los Angeles: Getty Publications , 2002. 4to. Cloth. Mint / Mint. ISBN: 9780892366798. 228 pages. Well written and researched book with lavish illustrations.200 colour illustrations, 100 b/w. £24.95
[021548] Karageorgihis, Vassos. Ancient Art From Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in the Metropolitam Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. 4to. Cloth. As New / As New d/w. With many colour illus. £30.00
[022090] Megaw, J.V.S.. Art of the European Iron Age: A Study of The Elusive Image. Bath: Adams & Dart, 1970. ISBN: 0239000196. A varied range of art, from pottery, tools, folk-craft and weapons to the great cult statues and the panoply of ornaments in precious metals. 195 pages text followed by 306 plates in colour and b&w. Light green cloth, near fine, in lightly rubbed dustjacket. £25.00
[024466] Smith, H.S., Tait, W.J.,. Saqqara Demotic Papyri 1. London: Egyptian Exploration Society, 1983. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Cloth. Good & Sound / Good & Sound. ISBN: 0856980846. This is a books of texts on the earliest manuscripts of demotic literary texts preserved to us.No illustrations , but a very detailed and scholarly look at the excavation.Perfect condition except for some small scuffs on the back of jacket. £30.00
[023529] Taylor, H.M.; Taylor, Joan. Anglo-Saxon Architecture (3 volumes). Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0521216931. 1118 pages across three volumes, Volumes I and II, 1965; Volume III: 1978. Decorated green cloth, lightly rubbed at extremities. Letter laid in from Harold Taylor to the previous owner, thanking him for sending him a bibliography, dated 1964. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of first volume. £195.00
[025508] Te K'un, Cheng . Archaeology in China Two Volume Set Prehistoric China (v1) Shang China (v2). Toronto: W. Heffer and Sons Ltd , 1966. 8vo. Cloth. Good / Fair. Two volume set of four volume series. Dust jackets have some scuffs and tears and both books have b/w plates and line drawings. Volume one has 250 pages, and volume two has 368 pages. £30.00