Search Results: Archeology from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, black cloth spine with bronze titles, black titles on front board, pictorial endpapers, xx, 343, [2] pp, 147 figures in text, notes, bibliography, index. Slight fading to edges. DJ has small tear & slight edge wear. Hume describes in detail the excavation of Martin's Hundred, a short-lived colony established in 1618, just a few years after Jamestown. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG+. 24½ X 17 cm.

Heraclion: Spyros Alexiou Sons, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Cressida Ridley. Sewn in plain white card covers, titles in black & red, 144 pp, 59 figures in text, 14 ff b & w photo plates, map, bibliography. Front cover foxed along bottom edge, scattered notes & underlining, else fine. DJ very lightly rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. The author was director of the Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Contents: the neolithic & the pre-palatial period; the period of the old palaces; the period of the new palaces; the post-palatial or Mycenaean period; Minoan religion; Minoan writing; economy & trade. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd revised ed.. Wraps. VG/Near Fine. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Joint publisher -- Thomas Yoseloff Ltd., London. Light grey cloth, red titles, 312 pp, b & w photos, index. The authors were both English professors rather than archaeologists, so lively writing probably outweighs scientific rigor in this book. From the DJ: "...judging from artifacts recovered in and around the foot of the mounds, the Pinson [Tennessee] mound builders had developed a very high order of stone-age culture, a culture superior in many respects to that of the Indians. Their pottery is unusually well formed and decorated; the delicacy of recovered tools and a variety of intricate fishhooks indicate an advanced artisanship, their many-stranded pearl necklaces show a careful craft and love of beauty." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 15 cm.

Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, black titles on spine, x, 373 pp, footnotes, figures, index. Extremities lightly rubbed. DJ extremities rubbed, sticker scar near top fore-edge of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Contains 16 papers, most of which were presented at a symposium on "The Social Organization of Prehistoric Communities" held in 1965. Authors: the editors, Albert C. Spaulding, James Deetz, James R. Sackett, William A. Longacre, James N. Hill, George L. Cowgill, James E. Ayres, Bobby Jo Williams, Howard D. Winters, Robert Whallon, Jr., Frank Hole, Kent V. Flannery, Michael D. Coe, Stuart Struever, with discussion by Richard B. Lee, Irven DeVore, Morton Fried, Edward P. Dozier, David F. Aberle, and Marvin Harris. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

Florence: Bonechi Edizione, 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in mostly blue pictorial coers with white titles, 127 pp, color photos throughout, index. Slight shelf wear, else fine. Glossy tour guide and memento for tourists contains color photos of the exceptionally well-preserved ruins of Pompeii along with explanatory text and many artists' conceptions of how the site appeared before it was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd Ed. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 27 X 20 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full maroon cloth with gilt & black titles, 356, [2] pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates, 4 maps, 95 illustrations in text, bibliography, index. Two condition issues cause downgrade to Fair: damp stain along bottom edge of rear board with some bleeding to rear endpapers and bottom edge near spine, what should be front free endpaper is pasted to front board. Otherwise good, corners bumped, extremities rubbed, titles partly rubbed off, internally clean except for a few pages with pencil underlining. Discusses what was known of pre-literate human culture from the earliest tool-makers up to early historic times. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 7th ptg. . Fair/No dj. 22 X 15 cm.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, gilt titles on spine, x, 275 pp, 13 color photos, 107 b & w photos, notes, bibliography, index. Bottom corners lightly bumped. DJ has 1" tear despite being covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. According to John Aubrey, the Avebury stone circles "as much excell Stonehenge as a Cathedral does a parish church." Burl presents here "a comprehensive and convicing picture of the life of the primitive communities who erected these massive structures nearly 5000 years ago," as well as the archeological excavations that make such a picture possible. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Very Good. 26 X 20 cm.

New York & London: Thames & Hudson, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Full green cloth, gilt titles on spine & device on front board, finely reproduced b & w photos throughout, notes, index. Remainder mark on bottom edge & fore-edge, else fine. DJ has a slit running about two thirds of the way up from bottom edge which is nearly invisible through the adhesive plastic covering. From the DJ: "Ever since the eighteenth century antiquarians and archaeologists have argued about the meaning of the enigmatic rock carvings of ancient Europe. ... [McCann] discusses the history of antiquarian thought about the carvings and current archaeological explanations--as well as the fantasies of the astro-mystics." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/G+. 24 X 17½ cm.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange cloth, gilt-on-black titles & decorations, blind title on front board, xv, 238 pp, 18 b & w photos, 5 maps including map on endpapers, notes, index. Owner's name on ffep, corner of ffep dog-eared. DJ has slight rubbing to top edge, original price crossed out with red ink; in Brodart archival cover. Mr. Bullitt describes the eight-year search for the site of the ancient Greek colony of Sybaris in southern Italy. This is the story of the challenges faced by the archeologists rather than a technical site description, and includes some historical background on Sybaris. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Full green cloth, blind decoration on front board, bronze ink titles on spine, xxii, 281, x pp, 24 ff b & w photo plates, many line drawings in text, bibliography, index. Small stain to rear board & rear panel of DJ, owner's name & notes on ffep, a History Book Club bonus book certificate taped to fpd. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Summary of what was known of the history of the Hittites and of the archeological expeditions that recovered the information. At the time this book was first published in German, the Hittite heiroglyphic writing had just been deciphered for the first time. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BCE. . VG/VG+. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York, St. Louis & San Francisco: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Series title is given as New Aspects of Archeology on dust jacket, but as New Aspects of Antiquity in book. Series edited by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Mustard cloth, gilt titles on spine, 267 pp, 2 ff color plates, 32 ff b & w photo plates, 41 plans & drawings, notes, bibliography, index. DJ covered with adhesive plastic, else fine. The author presents findings of nearly twenty years of excavations of pre-Islamic sites undertaken when he was Government Architect in Aden, and later as Director of Antiquities. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First US Edition. . Fine/VG. 25½ X 19 cm.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Caramel-colored cloth-textured paper-covered boards, xvi, 201 pp, maps, drawings, photos, chapter & general bibliographies, index. Spine ends slightly rumpled, top edge slightly dusty, else as new. DJ slightly edge-worn, with adhesive plastic cover. This book contains six articles on various underground industrial sites, from the stone age to about the 19th Century. Contents: Grimes's Graves and prehistoric European flint mining, by G. de G. Sieveking; the first metal workings and their geological setting, by J. W. Barnes; the Roman evidence, by G. D. B. Jones; the Irish souterrains and their background, by Richard Warner; the early industrial era, by Kenneth Hudson; some medieval and eighteenth centruy curiosities and utilities, by Barbara Jones. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 24 X 16 cm.

Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, yellow titles on spine & decoration on front board, 258, [2] pp, 53 color photos, many more b & w photos, maps, & plans, bibliography, index. Notes & underlining in ink, otherwise very good, owner's name on ffep. Text in German. The author summarizes the results of three decades of archeological digs at ancient villages & cities in the Negev desert, including Beerscheba, Arad, Oboda, Mampsis, Nessana, and Sobata. Sites dated from the early Bronze Age to Byzantine times. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Cleveland, OH & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full pale blue-green cloth, gilt titles & black decoration, endpaper maps, 318, [2] pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, index. Previous owner's name written neatly on ffep, tiny bump to top of front board, else fine. DJ has 1-cm chips and tears to top & bottom edges; in Brodart archival cover. Anthology of short selections from the writings of 22 archeologists from the 18th through 20th centuries. Deuel's introductions place these selections in context and form a history of Near Eastern archeology in themselves. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG-. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Anthony Werner. White boards, gilt titles on spine, pictorial endpapers, 144 pp including 12 pp color photos and many b & w photos in text. Slight shelf wear. DJ shows a bit of wear to corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 19½ cm.