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 about The First of Empires. "Babylon of the Bible" In the Light of latest Research
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Sm.8vo. xxxiv, 230pp. Decorated light brown cloth. Head and tail of spine bumped and worn. Corners rubbed. Minor stain to back cover. Fore-and bottom edges untrimmed. With bookplate of the revious owner Bruce Bryan, the noted author and..... More about Books on Egypt and Chaldaea; Vol. XIV. of the Series; Egypt under the Priest-Kings, Tanites, and...
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 about Éléments de Bibliographie Hittite
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 about A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity
Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Publications, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [6], 197, [5]pp. Original green paper covered boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Printer's device on title-pages. Title-pages in English and Hebrew. Captivating study on Greece in the land of Israel, and particularily its settlement and Hellenization... More about Scythopolis - a Greek City in Eretz-Israel
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. Hardcover. 4to. xxi, 322pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. The metropolis of Asia Minor, the Paris of the ancient world, Sardis was the place where the legendary Croesus ruled, where coinage was invented, and economy history revolutionized. This book provides... More about Sculpture from Sardis: The finds through 1975 (Report - Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, 2
Rawalpindi: Iran Pakistan Institute of Persian Studies, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xviii, 14, 84pp. Original blue buckram with gilt-stamped emblem and lettering on front and back cover and spine. Published on the occasion of the celebration of the birth millenary of Abu Rayhan Biruni, a Persian scholar and polymath... More about Two Twin Calendars. Two Old Years & Only One City
Jerusalem: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1990. Hardcover. Large 8vo.xvii. 770pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original, pictorial dj. . Great wpork on Biblical archeology, also marking the 75th anniversary of the Israel Exploration society. IWith opening remarks by, among others, former mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kolleg (b. 1911)... More about Biblical Archaeology Today: Proceedings of the International Congress on Biblical Archaeology...
Lancaster, PA: The New Era Printing Company, 1904. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. viii, 27pp. Original gray printed wraps. Thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. "The history of Thessaly... More about A History of Thessaly from the Earliest Historical Times to the Accession of Philip V. of Macedonia
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1950. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. (xii) 167pp. Grey printed wrappers with black lettering on the front cover and spine. The work discusses the social status and lives of the merchant class in Ancient Babylonia, through examination of original writing and evidence from the period. Includes indexes and... More about The Old-Babylonian Merchant. His Business and His Social Position (Studia et Documenta ad iura...
Mexico: Inverlat, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Lg. 4to. 238pp. Blue cloth with blind-stamped title in original dust jacket. Decorated endpapers. A beautiful book looking at ancient Mayans as well as their descendants. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of color photographs of Mayan monuments and ruins, maps, modern buildings, landscapes and people... More about El Mundo Maya
Lima, Peru: Libreria Internacional del Peru, 1947. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginatd, with 74 numbered plates. Original illustrated wrappers with black lettering to wrappers. Minor rubbing, scuffing, staining, browning and foxing to wrappers and spine. Fascinating work on the history of prehispanic period of Peru. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and some... More about Historia del Peru (Epoca Prehispanica): Templos y Ruinas
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 196pp. Brown cloth with blue lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece. "Professor Wolohojian's translation, Number LXXXII of the records of Civilization series, is based on the rare mid-nineteenth century edition of the oldest surviving Armenian manuscript of... More about The Romance of Alexander the Great by Pseudo-Callisthenes
Paris: Société d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres" 1985. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. XII, [2], 143, [3]pp. Original printed wrappers. Scholarly monograph on the Mycenaean and Hittite land tenure of the fields of Pylos and Hattusa, and of the persons and the obligations upon them to perform certain services connected with this... More about Les Listes de Champs de Pylos et Hattusa et le Régime Foncier Mycénien et Hittite [Études de...
Potomac: Capital Decisions, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 44pp. of text with additional 114pp. of Cuneiform transliterations. White cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Very minor soiling and rubbing to cover and spine. One line of notes in ink on top... More about Messenger Texts From The British Museum
Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, (1961). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxii,442pp. Light brown cloth with black lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Captivating account of what life was like under the collective regime of the Incas. The author looks at the rigidly hierarchized, static society... More about A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru
New York: Art Books Intl Ltd, 1979. Hardcover. Large 4to. 268pp. Mottled gray cloth with black lettering to spine in original, pictorial dj. Tears, rubbing, scuffin and staining to dj. Black endpapers. Red ink underlining to text. "With its 380 illustrations, this book aims primarily at providing the reader with... More about Scythian Art. Crafts of the early Earasian Nomads
Tucson: Cummings Publication Council, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii. 251pp. Dark beige cloth with lettering to cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers, maps. Frontispiece photograph. "... outline of the life and attainments of the people who occupied the great Southwest before the coming of the Spaniards into this region," (author)... More about First Inhabitants of Arizona and the Southwest
Phaidon Press, (1967). Hardcover. Lg. octavo. [6],339pp. Green cloth in original photographic dust jacket. Map illustrated rear endpapers. Fascinating publication with a selection (in English translation) of passages from ancient authors and inscriptions dealing with the growth of Rome and its monuments from the earliest times to the death of... More about Urbs Roma: A Source of Classical Texts on the City & its Monuments
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. xv. 163pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Small bookplate of previous owner to inside of front board. From the dust jacket: "The records of ancient Mesopotamia disclose a bewildering variety of contractual forms governing arrangements between debtor... More about Indenture at Nuzi: The Personal Tidennutu Contract and its Mesopotamian Analogues
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1955. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. 126, [2]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over wrappers. With "Dans les Pas des Césars," French historian, classicist and Latinist Pierre Grimal takes the reader on a pictorial journey through the land of the Roman emperors. The author's fascination for Roman civilization transpires... More about Dans les Pas des Césars
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1888. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VIII, 9-234pp. Original brick cloth with gold lettering on spine. Decorative endpapers. The ancient Egyptian civilization endured for more than 5000 years, and at its peak was one of the richest and most powerful in the world. This work presents... More about Ancient Egypt in the Light of Modern Discoveries
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1961. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. 626pp. Original photographic wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. This volume is planned as the first of several with the aim of consolidating the ground covered in "Aeschylus & Athens." It is in effect an expansion of the first five... More about Studies in Ancient Greek Society: The Prehistoric Aegean
Tel Aviv: Gateway Publishers, 1975. Unknown Binding. 4to. xi. 116 pages, followed by 63 plates. Mottled cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. Red pen mark to loose front endpaper. Fascinating work on the archaeological excavation of the ancient town of Lachish. Beautifully illustrated with 32 plates of b/w... More about Investigations at Lachish: The sanctuary and the residency (Lachish V) (Publications of the...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1993). First edition. Hardcover. Sm. quarto. xii,370pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine in original photographic dust jacket. Fascinating work on late Roman Egypt in the fourth and fifth centuries. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs and plans. Minor creasing to head and tail of..... More about Egypt in Late Antiquity