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From the Land of the Scythians Ancient Treasures from the Museums of the USSR 300BC - 100BC
New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art & The Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1974 Decorative Paper Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
160 pp. B&W and extrordinary color illustrations on every page. Two pages of maps and articles on "Early Cultures of the Lands of the Scythians" and "Excavations and Discoveries in Scythian Lands." Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Cover shows reading creases on spine, a little bumping at corners.
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13.00 USD
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Banks, Edgar James Bismya, or Lost City of Adab A Story of Adventure, of Exploration, and of Excavation Among the Ruins of the Oldest of the Buried Cities of Babylonia
New York G.P. Putnam 1912 First Edition Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
455 pp. with 174 B&W illustrations and a picture of the author in Arab dress frontis. Text is clean and unmarked, text is tight but gutter is cracked in front. An account of the archeological discoveries at Bismya in the valley of Mesopotania by an expedition sponsored by the University of Chicago. With an inscription on the endpapers "..with compliments of the author and of Harwood Hamilton." Hamilton was a lawyer and scientist turned author who published "Cui Bono?", a very popular inspirational treatise in 1912. Also a book plate from the C-Bar-C Ranch on the free endpaper which is loose. Dark blue boards are bumped at corners and spine ends. Gold-stamping with ancient statue on cover is bright. Back board has a water stain along top and a cloth binding has a break along top.
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53.00 USD
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Kirkpatrick, Sidney D. Lords of Sipan A True Story of Pre-Inco Tombs, Archeology and Crime
New York William Moorrow & Co 1992 0688103960 / 9780688103965 1st Edition Hard Cover Good Very Good Ex-Library
256 pp with 8 pp of color plates. The parallel histories of the excavation of the multi-layered grave of a Moche lord in Northern Peru plus the chase of grave robbers and antiquities smugglers. Remainder mark on page edges and discard stamps on end papers. No stamps or markings on text which is clean and tight.
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6.25 USD
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Pallottino, M The Etruscans
Great Britain Penguin Pelican Book 1955 Trade Paperback Very Good No Jacket as Published
280 pp with bibliography and index. 32 B&W plates. Clean, tight, unmarked save a price on title page, pages yellowed. Cover is scuffed, spine yellowed.
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12.00 USD
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Pennington, Campbell W. The Tephuan of Chihuahua Their Material Culture
Salt Lake City University of Utah Press Cloth Good + Good + Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
413 pp with index and bibliography. Text is clean, tight and unmarked with only one library stamp. Front flyleaf has been partially cut off.The back endpapers show where a card pocket has been removed. Many B&W illustrations plus three maps, two in text and a larger folding map in pristine condition on the rear endpapers. Green cloth boards with darker green titles show light sunning along upper edge. DJ is clean and bright with light shelfwear and fading along spine. The spine has a small darker square where a library ID once was.
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28.00 USD
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Tucci, Guiseppe Archaeologia Mundi Transhimalaya
New Delhi Vikas Publishing (subsidiary of Nagel) 1973 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Published in India, appears to be identical with the Nagel edition published in Switzerland. Translated by James Hogarth. 33 illustrations in color, 177 in B&W. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, as new. DJ is slightly yellowed on spine and has a 1/2 inch tear on upper front corner. stamp on front papers.
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44.00 USD
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