Wien Berlin Leipzig: Verlag für Kulturforschung, 1931. Hardcover. Octavo. 129 (2)pp., 176 plates. Original black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. A psychological study of the sexual milieu and its psycho-pathological types characteristic for the murder trial Lieschen Neumann. This copy was confiscated by the Vienna criminal investigation... More about Fritz Ulbrichs lebender Marmor
Oxford: Oxford Clarendon, 1961. Hardcover. Large octavo. ix, 303 + (1) pp. Vol. 2 107 plates of manuscript fragments discussed and interpreted in the other volume. Green cloth, vol. 2 is in original dj. Some marginal pencil notes, otherwise books are in Fine Condition. Volume 1: Textes Volume 2: Planches This landmark... More about Les Grottes de Murabba'at (2 Vol.) Discoveries in the Judean Desert Issue 2
Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1911. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. viii,167pp. Original wrappers, detached in two parts. Discoloration, tearing and staining to wraps. Signature of previous owner on front wrapper. "Neue, durch Nachträge stark vermehrte Ausgabe der betreffenden Kapitel der Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt." Text in Gerrman. Wraps in poor, interior..... More about Von der Klassifikation der psychischen Phänomene
London: School of Archaeology in Egypt / Bernard Quaritch, 1927. Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. (6) 27pp., 54 plates incl. frontispiece. Rebound in red library cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph. Educational archaeology text illustrated with 54 plates, including b/w photographs depicting archaeological finds and excavation sites, measured... More about British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account Twenty-Fourth Year, 1918: Gurob
London: Jer. Batley, 1725. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [14], 352pp. Original full leather with borders in gilt along covers and on spine. Raised bands. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Scarce first edition of this classic and authoritative work on the art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on... More about A New Dictionary of Heraldry, Explaining the Terms us'd in that Science, with their Etymology,...
Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 224pp. 198pp. Herausgegeben von dem Römisch Germanischen Zentralmuseum zu Mainz und der Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Orange title-plate with gilt lettering. Minor scuffing to..... More about Les Bronzes Romains De Belgique
Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, (2003). Hardcover. Folio. Dark and light brown cloth with gold lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Volume 3 of "Oriental Institute Publications." Illustrated title-page. The temple of Khonsu was built by Ramesses III. but completed and decorated by his... More about The Graffiti on the Khonsu Temple Roof at Karnak; A Manifestation of Personal Piety
京城 [Keijo] (Seoul): 朝鮮總督府博物館 (Korea Satoshitoku Office Museum), 1938. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/2 x 9"). [2]pp (Text), [12] tissue-guarded leaves (Plates). Original string bound decorative wrappers, with black lettering to front cover. Although the first half of the 20th century in Korean history is marked by the grave... More about 博物館陳列品圖鑑 Museum Exhibits Illustrated (Hakubutsukan chinretsuhin zukan) Vol. XII....
京城 [Keijo] (Seoul): 朝鮮總督府博物館 (Korea Satoshitoku Office Museum), 1943. First edition. Softcover. Folio (12 1/2 x 9"). [2] leaves (Text), [12] tissue-guarded leaves (Plates). Original string bound decorative wrappers, with black lettering to front cover. Although the first half of the 20th century in Korean history is marked by the... More about 博物館陳列品圖鑑 第十匕輯 (Museum Exhibits Illustrated - Vol. XVII. Government...
London: William & Norgate, [1892]. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 60pp.[The Preface by the aythoe is dted March 1892] Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped. Illustrated with many annotated b/w plates. With the bookplate and signature of Bruce Bryan, the noted... More about Catalogue of the Manks Crosses with the Runic Inscriptions and various readings and renderings...
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co., 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii. 324pp. of text followed by 60pp. of plates. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Minor rubbing to edges. Small bookplate of previous owner to inside of front board. Page 111 and 112 have been expertly repaired with bookbinders glue... More about Tanagrafiguren: Untersuchungen zur Hellenistischen Kunst und Geschichte
Leipzig: Otto Harrassowity, (1941). Softcover. Folio. 62pp., followed by 42 plates on 28 pages, numbered 1-28 (some sub numbered, e.g. 21a, 21b), some fold-out. Wrappers. Work on archeology. Illustrated with full-page and fold-out b/w plans, charts and maps (with plate 10 and 11 being in color). Age wear, creasing and... More about Die Entwicklung der Zikurrat: Von ihren Anfängen bis zur Zeit der III. Dynastie von Ur....
Renaix (Belgium): J. Leherte-Courtin et Fils, 1924. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 212pp. Original printed wraps. Scarce ethnographic work on the populations of the Kasai river, the Lukenie, and Lake Leopold II, in the Belgian Congo. This study is profusely illustrated with 126 in-text figures of illustrations and b/w photographic reproductions... More about Annales du Musée du Congo Belge. Nouvelle Série. Miscellanées. Vol. I. Fascicule I (Novembre...
Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 x 11"). 52pp (Text), 4pp (Photographic plates), [2], 14pp (Illustrated plates). Original brick cloth, with brown lettering to spine and front cover. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Publisher's device on title page. After the publication of "The Tomb of Nefer and... More about Old Kingdom Tombs at the Causeway of King Unas at Saqqara, Excavated by the Department of...
Berlin: Berliner Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes, 1948. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 11 (1)pp. Original newsprint. Publication dedicated to educate about resistance and to fight fascism internationally. It was published monthly from July 1948 to March 1949, with the exception of February 1949. The special September issue starts with a.... More about Aktion VVN: Berliner Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes. Sonderausgabe
New York: Horace Thayer, 1858. Hardcover. 8vo. 334pp. Embossed brown cloth with faded gilt decoration and title to spine. Age color fading and rubbing throughout. Spine edges and corners bumped. Front hinges repaired with modern tape. With the bookplate of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of... More about Traditions Of De-Coo-Dah and Antiquarian Researches: Comprising Extensive Explorations, Surveys,...
Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1908. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. 782pp. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards with title-plate. Minor rubbing to plate. Slight sunning and staining on spine. Small library stamp on top page edge. Text in German. Very good condition. More about Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung
Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1954. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (11 x 9"). VI, 176, [2]pp (Text), LXXXVIIIpp (Plates). Uncut and unopened copy. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. Illustrated with 88 striking photogravure plates, this scholarly monograph sheds a valuable light on Timurid manuscripts'... More about Les Peintures des Manuscrits Timurides [INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D'ARCHÉOLOGIE DE BEYROUTH,...
Philadelphia: Published for The University Museum by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4"). XXI, [1], 478pp. Original 3/4 black cloth over blue paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. A complete report on the excavations undertaken in Iran, and particularily at... More about Excavations at Tepe Hissar Damghan: With an Additional Chapter on the Sasanian Building at Tepe...
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 x 10 3/4"). xv, [1], 71, [3]pp (Text), 53, [1]pp (Plates). Original full brown cloth, with black lettering to spine and front cover. Splendidly produced monograph on the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II, an Egyptian king of... More about The Temple of Mentuhotep At Deir el-Bahari [Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
Berlin: Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,288pp. Rebound. Three-quarter cloth over marbled boards. Title handwritten on spine. Minor bumping and wear to edges. Scuffing to boards. Decorated page edges. Text in German. Good condition. More about Beitrage zur Vergleichenden Psychologie: Die Seele und ihre Erscheinungsweisen in der Ethnographie
Cairo: Imprimerie de L'Institut Français D'Archéologie Orientale, 1913. Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. (4) 131pp., lxxi plates. Modern gray cloth with original cover wrapper bound in and gilt lettering on spine. Title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. "This record of the Temple of Derr was made..... More about Les Temples Immergés de la Nubie: The Temple of Derr
Cairo: Imprimerie de L'Institut Français D'Archéologie Orientale, 1911. Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. (3)114pp., 121 plates, incl. frontispiece. Modern green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Color frontispiece lithograph (Interior of Pronaos). Services des Antiquités de L'Égypte. "The greater part of this work, namely the taking of photographs, copying of..... More about Temples Immergés de la Nubie: The Temple of Dendûr
Geneva: Henry Kündig, 1905-1906. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. VIII, 275, [1], [4], 70pp. Original printed wrappers. Remarkable study devoted to the rendering and translation of many cuneiform tablets shedding lights on Assyro-Babylonian divination. Previous ex-owner's stamp (Alec H. Friedmann) on half-title of first volume, and title page of Fascicule I.... More about Choix de Textes Relatifs à la Divination Assyro-Babylonienne + Choix de Textes Relatifs à la...
London: Harrison and Sons, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. lxxv (i), 391 (1)pp. Original light brown cloth, blind-stamped ruling on cover and gilt stamped lettering on spine. Cuneiform texts with translations, transliterations, etc. From original documents in the British Museum. Gilt top edge. Black endpapers. Illustrated with full page offset... More about Annals of the Kings of Assyria. Vol. I