New York: Nelson &Phillips, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). XVI, 352pp. Original gilt-stamped full morocco, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. All paper edges gilt. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. After sketching the great topographic features of Egypt, and spurning the present beneath..... More
New York: H. S. Nicholis, 1913. Hardcover. 2 octavo volumes. xiv, 524 + vi, 600 pp. Purple cloth with lovely golden decorative Roman design on front cover and gold lettering on spines. Uneven pages. Some pages uncut. The author, Jacques Rogeras de Serviez (1679-1727) studied law at Montpellier. He was..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (13) 241pp., 11 plates. Rebound in three-quarter blue cloth over blue paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped emblem and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Decorative head piece and initial. From the series Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology. Decorative border on..... More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original printed paper covered boards. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper, and dated May 1956. The Shahnama (Book of Kings) is the Persian national epic, and is generally accepted as one of the world's literary classics. Its..... More
Potomac: Capital Decisions, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 138pp. of text followed by 45pp. of plates. Light mint green cloth with gilt lettering and green title plate on cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and two corners lightly bumped. Minor rubbing and soiling to cover. Back corner slightly..... More
Manchester: At the University Press, 1911. Hardcover. 8vo. xvii,162,xxiv,pp. Original wrappers bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine and corners rubbed. Scuffing and some staining to boards. Ex-libris of Hebrew Union College, Dr. Louis Grossmann Collection, on inside of front board. Frontisportrait of..... More
Simferopol: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2001-2002. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (I): 270pp, (II): 348pp. Blue faux-leather boards with gild lettering on front and spine. Yearly report on archaeological research in the region of Bosphorus, presently Crimea. Funded by the philanthropic fund Demetra, and the Crimean chapter of the..... More
Roma: La Libreria Dello Stato, 1942. 8vo. 144-180pp. Pamphlet stapled and bound in modern brown paper-covered binding with pasted-down original front wrapper. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA. Slight browning to outer edges of pages not affecting text. In Italian..... More
Athens: Greek National Line s. A., n/d. Hardcover. Ex-library. Sm. folio. 241pp. Gold-stamped maroon cloth in pictorial dust-jacket housed in original matching slipcase. "In this book an attempt is made to present the character and the work of the great Macedonian, during the thirteen years of his reign..." Profusely illustrated..... More
Paris: E. Leroux, 1880. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 319 pp. Original printed wrappers. Some staining to wraps, 1" tear at head of spine on rear wrap, front wrap stuck to 1/3 of front free end paper. Minor creasing to pages 64-98 at top corner, sporadic light foxing throughout. Text in..... More
Richmond: Jacob Johnson, 1806. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. iv. 338 pp. Old tree calf covered boards. Spine is cracked, with age wear to its top and bottom. Notes in pencil on front and rear endpapers. Signature of previous owner. Hinges starting, but firmly affixed. Yellowing and discoloration due to age..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 9"). xi, [1], 7, [1]pp (Text), [111]pp of plates with 117 texts in facsimile. Modern brown cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Our knowledge of man’s past can be increased by two main approaches. On the..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1874. Hardcover. 8vo. 529pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and gold vignette on spine. Informative study on the customs, religions, laws and institutions of ancient Rome and Greece. Age wear and staining on binding. Head of spine chipped, small puncture and small closed tear near top..... More
New York: Graphic Society, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. 224 pp. Olive cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Dj price clipped. Some closed tears, chipping and creasing to dj. Decorated endpapers. Fascinating book on Ancient Persia, published at the occasion of the 2,500th anniversary of the..... More
Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1996. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. [4] 49pp. [1] (+8 plates). Beige heavy stock textured paper wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. One from the large series of monographs published by University of Naples "L'Orientale", this scholarly work explores the little known 1865..... More
Wroclaw, Warsaw, Krakow: Zaklad Narodow Imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1966. Softcover. 8vo. 173 (2) pp. Original wrappers. Work on Ancient Roman History, written by renowned Polish scholar of Ancient History, Jerzy Linderski (see below). Minor age wear, some staining to wrappers, with minor browning throughout. Overall clean and..... More
Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1994. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. (xi) 104pp. [1]. Beige heavy stock textured paper wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. One from the large series of monographs published by University of Naples "L'Orientale", this scholarly paleographic work is a transcribes, translates and analyzes..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 602pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Scuffing, discoloration and some staining to boards. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Corners bumped. Ex-Libris of Ricardo De Robina to inside of front board. "A..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii. 408pp. Translated from the rom the French. Decorated light brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorated spine. Scuffing to spine. Head and tail of spine crudely repaired with modern tape. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to upper cover edge. Some..... More
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Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 195, [1]pp. Original illustrated paper covered boards. Inside of front cover inscribed and signed by Gunn Tepstad, author of the essay " Idioms in Egyptian Aramaic Legal Papyri (pp. 51-58). Collection of 16 essays on past and present cultures in the Middle..... More
Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 99pp. [1 loose leaf]. Beige heavy stock textured paper wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. One from the large series of monographs published by University of Naples "L'Orientale", this scholarly work examines early written records of monetary..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 618pp. Original photo illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on front cover, black lettering on spine. White cloth boards with photo illustrated plate pasted on front cover with gilt lettering on spine. Photo illustrated front end papers. "The story..... More
London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxix. 356pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and worn. Bottom edge bumped and worn. Scuffing to covers. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Hinges starting. With the bookplate and signature..... More
Paris: Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. VII, [1], 137, [3]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Written by French archeologist, orientalist and religious historian Georges Contenau, "Éléments de Bibliographie Hittite" is a scarce bibliography of writings on Hittite language and civilization.* Covers detached, but present. Spine partly missing. Book..... More
San Francisco: Harper Collins, (1992). First edition. Hardcover. Sm. quarto. xii,203pp. Half maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. "A Noble Death challenges the often unquestioning attitudes we have toward suicide and traces the evolution of these attitudes from the time of Socrates to this..... More