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Badawy, Alexander. ARCHITECTURE IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE NEAR EAST. Cambridge, Mass. The M.I.T. Press, 1966. Hard Cover. First Edition. 246 pp. Covers have very slight rubbing to edges and corners. Spine, w/stamped gilt lettering, is very slightly worn and/or crumpled at top and bottom. Top edge lightly soiled. Illus. DJ, in protective book cover, is slightly aged, soiled and worn. Text is as new. Hundreds of line drawings, maps, charts and diagrams. An exciting reference work. Fine / Very Good.
[Book #1133] Price: $25.00 Ask a Question

Bancroft, Hubert. THE WORKS OF HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT. VOL. IV. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Co. 1883. Leather. First. 807 pp. B/w ills. & maps. Subtitle: "The Native Races. Vol. IV, Antiquities."Smooth tan covers have a sunned spine with black title blocks, bright gilt lettering. Corners bumped. Hinges are tender. Spine chipped at both ends. Edges of this volume are a lovely feathered marble pattern, somewhat sunned on upper edges. Upper edges stamped with small stamp of Whitworth College Library, which appears elsewhere in the book. A large fold-out map of Native Races of the Pacific States showing the location of Ancient Monuments precedes the text. Lavishly illustrated, tight in binding, the book belies its 120 years. Very Good.
[Book #9512] Price: $35.00 Ask a Question

Guirand, Feliz (Editor). Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. New York: Prometheus Press, 1959. Hard Cover. First Edition. First American Edition. First Printing. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington and Delano Ames. Price clipped. Clean within. Very Good / Very Good.
[Book #22053] Price: $20.00 Ask a Question

PERUVIAN TALES RELATED IN ONE THOUSAND AND ONE HOURS, BY ONE OF THE SELECT VIRGINS OF CUSCO TO THE YNCA OF PERU TO DISSUADE HIM FOR A RESOLUTION HE HAD TAKEN TO DESTROY HIMSELF BY POISON

Humphreys, Samuel, Translator. PERUVIAN TALES RELATED IN ONE THOUSAND AND ONE HOURS, BY ONE OF THE SELECT VIRGINS OF CUSCO TO THE YNCA OF PERU TO DISSUADE HIM FOR A RESOLUTION HE HAD TAKEN TO DESTROY HIMSELF BY POISON. Leather. 288 pp. Hours 49-92. Original dark brown calf is scratched and scuffed. Corners bumped and rubbed. Rear board hanging by a few threads. Spine cracked and title obscured. The book is missing all prelims and blanks, including t.p. On fpd is armorial bookplate of T. Brougham. There is also some very old handwriting, but it is indecipherable. The first page of the book is torn in half, with most text missing. There are scattered marks within, but the text block is basically clean and tight. Printed on nice rag paper. One volume of a famous old tale reprinted at various times; this appears to be from the early 1800's. Near Good.
[Book #10847] Price: $50.00 Ask a Question

Le Plongeon, Augustus. SACRED MYSTERIES. New York: Robert Macoy, 1886. Hard Cover. First Edition. 163 pp. "The Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 Years Ago. Their Relation to the Sacred Mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea and India. Free Masonry In Times Anterior to the Temple of Solomon. Illustrated." Binding is brown cloth with blind-stamped decorative rules and title on front cover. Spine has slighlty faded, blind-stamped gilt lettering. Binding is slightly aged, soiled and worn. Spine has a small tear. Spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed. Page edges are age-darkened and chipped. Floral eps. Ffep has a short closed tear at bottom edge. Brief ink inscription on front fly leaf. B/w frontis photo of author, with protective tissue. Text has numerous illustrations throughout as well as plates with protective tissues. Interior is somewhat age-darkend. Very Good.
[Book #7524] Price: $225.00 Ask a Question

Lehmann, Phyllis WIlliams. THE PEDIMENTAL SCULPTURES OF THE HIERON IN SAMOTHRACE. Locust Valley, N.Y. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Ivory Cloth. Presumed First. 30 pp. + 60 b/w photo plates. An abridgement of the "Second Annual Walter W.S. Cook Alumni Lecture at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts." Titled in bright gilt on front and spine. ND; preface dated early 1962. Clean, crisp, and tight, this is a scholarly discourse on the study of Hellenistic religious architecture, particularly "The New Temple," ca. 4th C. B.C. Very Good Plus.
[Book #9361] Price: $65.00 Ask a Question

Poindexter, Miles. The Ayar-Incas (2 Volumes). New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. Hardcover. First Edition. "A history and evaluation of a vanished and magnificent civilization." The writer's goal is to show that the ancient Inca civilization had Asian origins. Contains much history. 274, 359 pp. B/w photo ills, occasional maps, one color frontis. Vol. 1 Subtitle: "Monuments, Culture, and American Relationships." Vol. 2: "Aryan Asiatic Origins." Handsome dark red books are ruled front and spine in black. Gilt lettering on spine. Spines lightly sunned; V.1 has a few light spots. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper. Fore-and bottom edges untrimmed. Peach colored dust jackets are lettered in navy, trimmed with red. Dust Jackets are price-clipped. Spines soiled. Each dust jacket has a few edge chips. Contents clean and tight. Very Good / Very Good.
[Book #12254] Price: $55.00 Ask a Question

Redding, M. Wolcott. ANTIQUITIES OF THE ORIENT UNVEILED. New York: Redding & Co. 1873. Hardcover. First Edition. 421 pp. + 2 pp. pub ads. Subtitle: "Containing a concise description of the ruins of King Solomon's Cities, together with those of forty of the most ancient and renowned cities of the east, including Babylon, Ninevah, Damascus, and Shushan." Embellished with three beautiful lithographs and seventy full-page engravings. Dark green covers stamped w/ rules, gilt title block on front and on spine. Spine is worn at both ends, has a vertical white mark for most of its length, and appears to have been nibbled at front edge of spine. Corners bumped. All edges tinted red. Dark brown eps. P.o. on first fly. Two fold-out maps precede frontis, a color scene of the site of King Solomon's temple. Tissue protector is foxed, but there is very little foxing to margins of picture, and none to surface. A small closed tear to t.p. apparently occured when first signature came loose. This first joint is precarious. A nicely produced book, with decorative frames in the margin of each page. Clean and tight within. Very Good.
[Book #11794] Price: $125.00 Ask a Question

Schefold, Karl. DIE BILDNISSE DER ANTIKEN DICHTER REDNER UND DENKER. Basel: Benno Schwabe & Co. 1943. Linen. Presumed First. 228 pp. Front cover has a blind-stamped medallion of a boy on a dolphin, highlighted in bright gilt. Blind-stamped, bright gilt lettering on spine. Cream-colored covers and spine are very slightly yellowed with age along the edges. Spine ends and corners are very slightly bumped. Illustrated DJ, in protective cover, is somewhat aged and soiled. DJ has occasional small chips, tears and closed tears along the edges. DJ spine ends are chipped. Text, in German, is augmented by numerous, mostly full-page, b/w photos and drawings. Interior is very slightly aged, but clean, crisp and tight. Very Good Plus / Good.
[Book #5291] Price: $75.00 Ask a Question

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Schuchhardt, Walter-Herwig and Werner Technau. GESCHICHTE DER KUNST ALTERTUM. (2 Volumes). Berlin: Rembrandt, 1940. Hard Cover. First Edition. 477,322 pp. Color & b/w photos and ills. Vol. I: "Die Kunst der Griechen" by Schuchhardt; Vol. II: "Die Kunst der Romer." Vol. 1 VG with only slight wear to one corner, a few marks on spine. Vo. 2 is warped, edgeworn, and has discolored spine. Both books have ink p.o. on ffep, presentation plate on front paste-down to a museum library. There are a few insignificant library marks. Lovely illustrations, many in color. Text in German. Very Good.
[Book #10165] Price: $40.00 Ask a Question

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Simcox, E.J. PRIMITIVE CIVILIZATIONS, OR OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF OWNERSHIP IN ARCHAIC COMMUNITIES, VOL. I & 2. London/New York: Swan Sonnenschein & Co/Macmillan & Co. 1894. Black Cloth. Presumed First. 576, 554 pp. Black covers have stamped rules top & bottom, gilt rules & title info on spine. Upper corners bumped. Coated navy blue eps. Light signature on half title pages. A laid-in notice from the New York Publishers indicates that these are review copies. Detailed, scholarly works with abundant appendices. Very Good.
[Book #3816] Price: $120.00 Ask a Question

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Smith, W. Stevenson. THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT EGYPT. London: Penguin Books, 1958. Red Cloth. First Edition. 290 pp text, 192 pp photo ills plus 77 text drawings and a map; index. From the Pelican History of Art series. Embossed gilt design on red cover with gilt bands and lettering on black leather on red spine. Previous owner's name in ink on ffep. DJ has two chips and a 1" tear at bottom of front, else VG. In protective book cover. Covers the period from the fourth millennium B.C. through the third century A.D. Very Good / Very Good.
[Book #1071] Price: $50.00 Ask a Question

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