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[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

[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

[015364] Broderick, Alan Houghton. Lascaux: A Commentary. London: Lindsay Drummond Ltd, 1949. Small 4to. Cloth. Good / Fair D/w. With colour frontispiece and 44 b/w plates; jacket designed by John Heartfield. Several holes to jacket at spine and at top edge affect titling.  £15.00

[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.  £49.95

[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

[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

[017199] Giddings, J Louis . Ancient Men of the Arctic. London: Secker & Warburg, 1968. 8vo. Cloth. Good and Sound / Good + D/w. With b/w illustrations & maps in text.  £25.00

[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

[017740] Hawkes, Jacquetta. Dawn of the Gods. London: The Arcadia Press, 1969. 4to. Full-Leather. Good and Sound This Edition is limited to 265 copies of which numbers 251-265 are not for sale. This Edition has been expressly designed and bound by Zaehnsdorf of London. This copy is 201. Signed by the author. Full leather, gilt. With many b/w & colour illustrations.  £150.00

[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

[012815] Robicsek, Francis. The Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. Folio. Cloth. Good / Fair D/w. with over 500 illustrations including 265 in colour. Jacket a little frayed, nicked, creased and torn.  £70.00

[006556] Szentleleky, Tihamer. Ancient Lamps. Chicago: Argonaut, 1969. Small 4to. Cloth. Good With numerous b/w plates and line drawning in the text. spine a little faded.  £30.00

[020772] Tatton-Brown, Veronica (Ed.). Cyprus in the Nineteenth Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction.. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2001. 4to. Pictorial Boards. ISBN: 1842170333. Papers of the 22nd Classical Colloquium, London, 1998, dedicated to the memory of Professor Olivier Masson. Views of Cyprus in the 19th century; Sites in the 19th century; Museums and their 19th century collections; Early travellers and excavators; The law. 278 pages, illustrated in b&w throughout. Pictorial boards, near fine,  £15.00