Archaeology from Diversity Books, IOBA

Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: The Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, 1979. (iv), + 123pp. Intext, b/white halftone plates and line-drawings throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper mildly soiled, bumped and creased. Textblock lightly age-toned, else unmarked. This copy is from a first edition printing of 1,000 copies, and is a guide to archaeological discoveries around the… Ler mais sobre este item

PAlo Alto, California, U.S.A.: Peek Publications, 1973. x, + 291pp. Intext, b/white halftone plates, and line-drawings throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm, nominally bumped on head and heel. Monochrome, illustrated card wrapper minimally bumped on foredge corners. Textblock ditto. This sourcebook consists of a series of articles about anthropology and archaeology featuring numerous contributors. Contents include: Prelims., Preface.… Ler mais sobre este item

United Kingdom: Thames and Hudson, 1970. 256pp. Monochrome, halftone plate illustrated section (all called-for plates extant and attached), plus numerous intext line-drawings and maps throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine, ditto publisher's logo over undamaged original cloth boards. A former owner's stamp on front pastedown, tinted top edge, else textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2007. xxviii, + 258pp., plus 3 x 8 page, colour and b/white illustrated sections. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain red boards undamaged. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edge-creased only. From the rear panel: "When Grenfell and Hunt began digging near the Nile in 1807 they made what has turned out… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1997. 240pp., colour photographic illustrations and b/white line-drawings throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Plain burgundy boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edge-rubbed only. "Authoritative and wide-ranging, and using the most advanced analytical techniques in archaeology, 'Journey Through the Ice Age' describes the varied background of the sites and discusses their enigmas… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1985. 393pp., colour frontis plate, plus colour and b/white plates throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on, mild bump to head. Black boards nominally bumped on a lower foredge corner, otherwise undamaged. Map illustrated endpapers. Leaves clean and unmarked, with a hint of tanning to textblock edges. Illustrated dustjacket price-clipped, corresponding soft creases… Ler mais sobre este item

United States: Oxford Univ Press, 1994. 315pp., over 80 b/white photographic illustrations, including maps, throughout. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves unmarked, soft corner crease to several pages. Illustrated (David Tran) card wrapper negligibly splayed. " . . . an absorbing, non-technical history of archaeology, tracing the study of ancient material culture from its beginnings in the Renaissance through its development… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Souvenir Press, 1969. 320pp., unpaginated, b/white halftone plate sections, plus numerous intext line-drawn illustrations and maps. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Plain boards undamaged. Leaves unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket lightly edgeworn. For 2,000 years Atlantis has tantalized the mind of man; was it a myth? - Did it exist? - If so, where? In… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2004. 160pp., colour frontis, plus colour photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Matt-illustrated boards negligibly scuffed only. Like-illustrated dustjacket nominally edgeworn, small, soft crease to head. " . . . offers a worldwide survey of some of the most intriguing enigmas posed to us across many centuries by death and the afterlife… Ler mais sobre este item

Edinburgh, Scotland: Saint Andrew Press, 1992. (xiv) + 162pp., colour plates, supported by b/white halftone plates, throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Boards undamaged. Leaves clean. Pictorially-illustrated dustjacket minimally edgeworn only. Photographic images throughout, by Paul Turner, enhance this documented exploration of some of the very remarkable monuments to Scotland's intriguing heritage . .… Ler mais sobre este item