Category: Archaeology

Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape

By: Aalen, F.H.A. & Kevin Whelan & Matthew Stout (editors

Price: £18.50

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1997

Seller ID: 019655

ISBN-13: 9780802042941

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (12), 352, very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and slightly wrinkled round the edges. [A heavy book - extra postage may be needed]
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Transactions of the Symposium on Photo Interpretation, Delft, 1962

By: Archives Internationales de Photogrammetrie

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Delft, Uitgeverij Waltman : 1963

Seller ID: 007833

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large quarto, pp 532 (+ adverts), fore-edge quite foxed but otherwise clean internally, cloth slightly marked and worn, in a rubbed and frayed dustwrapper. [Very heavy - extra postage may be needed.]
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Die Geschichte der Kulturlandschaft und des Ackerbaus in der Siedlungskammer Flogeln, Niedersachsen, seit der Jungsteinzeit :Probleme der Kustenforschung Im Sudlichen Nordseegebiet, Band 21

By: Behre, Karl-Ernst & Kucan, Dusanka

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Isensee, Oldenburg : 1994

Seller ID: 010765

ISBN-13: 9783895982545

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

German text. Illustrated, many folding charts, small folio, pp 227, green cloth, a slight blemish on the upper cover, otherwise a very good copy throughout. Presenation copy to Dr Peter Moore, signed by both authors. [The history of the cultural landscape and agriculture in Flogeln, Lower Saxony, since the Neolithic period.] A heavy book - extra postage may be required.
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Das Niedersächsische Institut für historische Küstenforschung. 60 Jahre Forschungstätigkeit im Küstengebiet.

By: Behre, Karl-Ernst & Schmid, Peter

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Wilhelmshaven : 1998

Seller ID: 010965

ISBN-13: 9783930510689

Binding: Pictorial Cloth

Condition: As New

Illustrated, pp vi, 106, pictorial cloth, an extremely good copy.
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The Town of Maiden Castle

By: Benfield, Eric

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hale Ltd : 1947

Seller ID: 014157

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 70, fore-edge slightly bruised, the upper corner of two pages and one plate creased, a neat inscription on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but just a little worn and slightly age-toned.
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The Horses of Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance, from the earliest monuments down to the XVIth century

By: Berjeau, Ph. Charles

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Dulau & Co : 1864

Seller ID: 019589

Binding: Soft Cloth

Condition: Good

Quarto, pp 20 + 60 plates (of which one is coloured), clean internally, original printed soft cloth, bruised wrinkled and marked, the spine fraying and lacking a portion at the base, with a small hand-written totle label. The Hartland Library copy, with labels and manuscript notes attached to the front endpapers, and stamp on the verso ot the title page. RARE, and equally rare to be found in any better condition than this. [The Library was formed by Edwin Sydney Hartland, and was a diverse, but major, collection of herbals, archaeology and anthropology. It was donated to Gloucestershire Count...
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Cornwall Illustrated in a series of Views of Castles, Seats of Nobility, Mines, Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Public Buildings, Churches, Antiquities etc

By: Betjeman, John

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber Limited

Seller ID: 018224

Binding: Ringbound cloth

Condition: Fair

Second edition revised [not dated - 1939 ?]. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 63, ringbound, a light stain to the bottom inner gutter corner margins of the pages, becoming slightly detached at the top of the ring binding (see illustration) but still sound, the metal ring rusty, slightly used internally, cloth a bit worn, stained along the lower edge, rather warped, the dustwrapper not price-clipped but very worn frayed and stretched. Signature of M.C. Gillett on the first blank. [ The second edition of the first ever Shell Guide.]
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Science in Archaeology: a survey of progress and research (Jack Hawkes' copy)

By: Brothwell, Don & Higgs, Eric (editors)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson : 1969

Seller ID: 013959

ISBN-13: 9780500270103

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Second edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated, large thick octavo, pp 720, very clean and sound internally, paperback, upper cover a little scuffed, spine creased. Professor Jack Hawkes copy, with his signature on the front endpaper. Very heavy - extra postage may be needed. [A stimulating collection of papers.]
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Sir Thomas Browne's Norfolk: Extracts from the Writings of Sir Thomas Browne relating to the Natural History and Archaeology of Norfolk in the Seventeenth Century

By: Browne, Sir Thomas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Dereham, The Larks Press : 1989

Seller ID: 017940

ISBN-13: 9780948400100

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Slim 12mo, pp 34, (i), upper corner slightly bumped throughout, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, covers with very slight signs of use. [Limited edition of 400 copies]. Postage will be reduced.
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Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual

By: Burl, Aubrey

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Princes Risborough, Shire : 2005

Seller ID: 013546

ISBN-13: 9780747806141

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Second edition. Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 72, paperback, a very good new copy. [Stonehenge was not an observatory used by druidical astronomer-priests. It was, instead, a monument in which the moon and the sun and the dead were joined together. In this book the author explains how people in the British Isles, four thousand or more years ago, identified life and death with the cycle of midwinter and midsummer and with the risings and settings of the sun and moon. This is why so many megalithic monuments have astronomical sightlines built into them. This book describes how astronomical...
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Environment and Archaeology - an introduction to pleistocene geography

By: Butzer, Karl W.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co Ltd : 1964

Seller ID: 014160

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition, illustrated with text line drawings and maps, large octavo, pp xviii, 524, for-edge slightly foxed, otherwise exceptionally clean internally, brown cloth in very bright condition, the dustwrapper is slightly frayed, and rather badly foxed on its lower cover. Overall, though, a rather good copy.
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The Geology, Archaeology and Fossil Mammals of the Cornelia Beds, O.F.S.

By: Butzer, Karl W.; Clark, J. Desmond & Cooke, H.B.S.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Die Naskionale Museum, Bloemfintain, : 1974

Seller ID: 015263

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

[Memoir Number 9]. Illustrated, small quarto, pp 84, erratum slip tipped in, very clean internally, blue cloth with very slight signs of use. SCARCE. (edition of 1000 copies only]
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Epping Forest. With chapters on forest management, geology of the district, prehistoric man and the ancient fauna, entomology, pond life and fungi of the forest.

By: Buxton, Edward North

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Edward Stanford : 1911

Seller ID: 019537

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Eighth edition. Tall small octavo, illustrated with small engravings in the text, 6 maps (of which four are folding and coloured), pp xvi,179, light foxing and marking, slightly weak internally, green cloth slightly worn. SCARCE.
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The Decipherment of Linear B

By: Chadwick, John

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press : 1959

Seller ID: 019311

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

First reprint. Illustrated with two plates plus several text figures, octavo, pp x, 147, a folding chart at the rear, an inscription on the front endpaper and also a bookplate of Feldmann, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth very lightly rubbed.
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Thailand (Archaeologia Mundi series)

By: Charoenwongsa, Pisit; Diskul, M.C.Subhadradis

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Geneva, Paris, Munich, Nagel : 1978

Seller ID: 018741

ISBN-13: 9782826306993

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated, octavo, pp 256, extremely clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, in a dustwrapper showing only very slight signs of use. A very attractive copy.
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Mesolithic Prelude - the palaeolithic-neolithic transition in old world history

By: Clark, Grahame

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press : 1980

Seller ID: 011535

ISBN-13: 9780852243657

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Small 8vo, illustrated, pp viii, 122, contents and binding in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at the corners and margins, it has a tiny tear at the top of the upper and lower cover.
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World Prehistory - a new outline

By: Clarke, Grahame

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1969

Seller ID: 015279

ISBN-13: 9780521073349

Binding: Cloth

Second edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 331, a neat owner's name on the half-title, otherwise extremely clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, in an attractive period dustwrapper which is just a little worn around the margins.
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The Realm of the Great Goddess: The Story of the Megalith Builders [Vicki Matthews' copy]

By: Cles-Reden, Sibylle von

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson : 1961

Seller ID: 018969

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 328, very clean internally, pale green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly faded on the spine and price-clipped by the publisher, it has slight sellotape residues on the foldover flaps and inside the cover, but otherwise is very good. [From the library of the Kew botanist Vicki Matthews, with her bookplate on the front endpaper.]
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Domesticated Animals From Early Times

By: Clutton-Brock, Juliet

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann & British Museum (Natural History) : 1981

Seller ID: 018098

ISBN-13: 9780434139507

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 208, very clean internally, brown cloth, several dimples impressed on the rear cover, otherwise in excellent condition, a very good copy in a dustwrapper with only very slight signs of use and with similar dimples. [Examines archaeological, historical, and zoological discoveries to trace the history of animal domestication, and describes the effect of that process on animal breeds and behavior.]
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The Art of Death in Graeco-Roman Egypt

By: Corbelli, Judith A.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Princes Risborough, Shire : 2006

Seller ID: 013366

ISBN-13: 9780747806479

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Illustrated, small slim octavo, pp 80, a very good new copy. Postage will be reduced. [Some of the most spectacular discoveries made in Egypt during the twentieth century were in the field of Graeco-Roman funerary archaeology - the poignant mummy portraits and grave stelae, the extensive cemeteries of Alexandria and marina el-alamein, the magnificent Golden Mummies of Bahariya - and this work brings together in one volume an introduction all the categories of funerary art of the period. A wide range of material is presented - tomb decoration stelae, sarcophagi, coffins, mummy cases, funerary ...
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