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Belzoni The Giant Archaeaologists Love to Hate;Supplement Michigan's White Pine Era 1840-1900

By: Ivor Noel Hume; Rolland H. Maybee

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lansing, Michigan, University of Virginia Press; Michigan Department of State: 1973

Seller ID: 4772

ISBN: 0813931401

Binding: Hard cover bpook, and card cover in booklet

Condition: Fine book and Near fine booklet

Michigan's White Pine Era 1840-1900, a supplement to "Benzoni The Giant Benzoni The Archgaeologists Love to Hate." The booklet is a supplement to the large hard cover book. The book measures 7-1/4" x 9-3/4"nd has 303 pages with beautiful illustrations in both color and black and white. The book is clean and bright -- beautiful -- and will arrive in a brand new mylar cover. The booklet is important and has 55 pages which bring to the life of the Michigan White Pine Era. The books would make a great gift.
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Marguerite Humeau FOXP2

By: Marguerite Humeau

Price: $32.00

Publisher: France, les presses du reel: 2016

Seller ID: 4688

ISBN: 2840668963

Binding: Card cover

Condition: Fine conditiuon

This is a very creative topic as well as the art, all of which shows its unusual items.The art catalog measures 6-14" x 9/-1/2" and has 96 pages. There are many photos in both color and black and white. There is also another piece of ephemera placed inside. It goes with the catalog and shows a large folded photo on one side, plus a large text on the reverse side. Both items are clean and bright with no defects of note. The text is written in both French and English.
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Portals to Eternity; The Necropolis at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt -- 1987

By: McCleary, Roger V.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Museum of Archaeology University of Michigan: 1987

Seller ID: 4076

Binding: Card cover

Condition: Fine, As New

This is a crisp, beautiful booklet which was published using the informationgarnered by the Michigan University's Reconnaissance Expedition Kom Abou Billou, the Nicopolis of Ancient Terenouthis from March to April, 1935. There are no defects of note. the beoklet measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 15 pages with many photographs throughout.I have photographed the Contents page so you cna see it (I hope).
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"It's A Kind of Memorabilia" A Letter About the Trojan Horse (Christopher Morley 1937)

By: Morley, Christopher

Price: $16.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Privately printed: 1937

Seller ID: 2268

Binding: Card cover

Condition: Very good condition

This is one of those items collectors seek to augment a collection of a favorite author's books. Christopher Morley, best known for Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop, penned this letter to F.P. Frazier of J.B. Lippincott about another book he wrote -- "The Trojan Horse". The booklet is a contemplation on the process of writing and the thoughts that drove the book forward. Morley unabashedly loved writing and admitted in these 16 pages that writimg the letter was fun. The booklet is very clean and nice and measures 5"x7-1/2".
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Restoration of Ancient Bronzes and Cure of Malignant Patina (1930)

By: Nichols, Henry W.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History: 1930

Seller ID: 2360

Binding: soft cover

Condition: Very Good condition

Very clean and tightly bound booklet which was No.3 of the Field Museum of Natural History's Museum Technique Series. The booklet measures 6-1/2" x 9-1/2" with 50 pages plus index. Contents include a foreword by Berthold Laufer, then curator of the Department of Anthropology for the Field Museum, restoration of ancient bronzes and cure of malignant patina, apparatus used at the Field Museum, cleaning treated specimens and preparing them for exhibition, and malignant patina itself.
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Ancient Chinese Tomb Sculpture March 22 to April 10, 2004

By: No author

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York City, J.J. Lally and Company, Oriental Art: 2004

Seller ID: 3157

Binding: Card cover

Condition: Very good condition

Beautiful exhibit catalog in clean tightly bound condition with no names or writing. The cover is fashioned of cardstock which serves as both cover and dustjacket with deep "endpapers." Twenty specimens were on exhibit and each has a full page, full color presentation with lengthy descriptions for all. The first work seen in the catalog is spectacular (see photo) of the painted pottery orchestral group of three musicians playing bells, chimes and drum. It dates from the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. -- A.D. 8). Catalog measures 8-1/2" x 11". Only fault is three page corner creases which I...
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Four Booklets; The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1959-1963)

By: No authors atated

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Jersey, Princeton University: 1959-1963

Seller ID: 1778

Binding: soft cover

Condition: Near fine condition

Four very nice, clean, tightly bound booklets, each on a different topic relating to classical Greek studies. The titles are: The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens, second printing 1962; Miniature Sculpture From the Athenian Agora, 1959; Lamps From the Athenian Agora, 1963; and Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade, 1961. All are illustrated with black and white photographs and measure 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Collectively they have 129 counted pages. (CC)
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American Journal of Archaeology April, 2009 (Etruscan Heaven,Pottery at Pompeii, Triconch House)

By: Norman, Naomi J. (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Arhaeological Institute of America April, 2009: 2009

Seller ID: 1946

Binding: soft cover

Condition: Near fine condition

Crisp and clean with just a small bit of wear to upper front corner. No names or writing and pristine inside and out. Magazine is scholarly, but also accessible and is illustrated throughout with drawings and black and white photographs. The main articles are these: A New Reconstruction to Etruscan Heaven; The Production and Distribution of Pottery at Pompeii(Part II The Material Basis); The Triconch House and the Predecessors of the Bishop's Palace at Aphrodisias. There's also field reports and reviews of exhibits. Magazine measures 8-1/2" x 11". I have a few other issues available.
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Treasures of Early Irish Art 1500-B.C. to 1500 A.D. Plus Commentary Booklet (1978)

By: Professor Franch Mitchell

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Washington D.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1978

Seller ID: 3936

ISBN: 0870991647

Binding: Car cover

Condition: Vary Good condition

The main exhibition book is lacking in nothing. Gorgeous works of art make every page an immersion in color and design.There is much text on the pages but inside this catalog there's a separate commentary on it too.The exhibition was taken "across the pond" to the United States, though none of these major treasures ever made the trip before -- for good reason. Imagine sending the the Book of Kells, the Ardagh Chalice and the great stone cross from Dysert O'Dea. But traveled they did and returned safely to Ireland. The exhibition catalog measures 8-1/2" x 11" and has 221 pages, pus the extra b...
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Fun with Hieroglyphs Book, 24 Rubber Stamps, Stamp Pad, Alphabet Chart (1990 Like New)

By: Roehrig, Catherine

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1990

Seller ID: 1550

Binding: Soft cover book in hard case

Condition: As new

I do love a book in a box, but this one comes with more than a box, though excellent box that it is with a magnetic closure along the right hand side. Open it and you see the Alphabet chart on your left and then on the right 14 small stamps and a guide book. Pick up the book and -- voila! -- a stamp pad is underneath. Closed the whole thing measures 7-1/4" x 11-1/4". The booklet measures 5-1/4" x 6" and has 65 illustrated pages. Lots of pieces parts here make it VERY ephemeral! OVERSEAS ORDER WELCOME, but due to weight shipping will exceed amount quoted. Contact me with destination and I wil...
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Expedition Magazine: The World of Ur, 1998

By: Schenk, Helen -- Editor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Phildelphia, University of Pennsylvania: 1998

Seller ID: 3986

Binding: Card cover

Condition: V4ey good condition

This is a handsome magazine, the first and only issue of it I've ever had. As you can see from the cover, the main topic is the World of Ur. The articles are these: Ur and Its Treasures: the Royal Tomb; The Musical Instruments from Ur and Ancient Mesopotamian Music; The "Boat-Shaped Lyre and Restudy of a Unique Musical Instrument From Ur; Life on the Edge of the Marshes; Texts, Tablets and Teaching, Scribal Education in Nippur and Ur; and Rescue and Restoration -- A History of the Philadelphia "Ram Caught in a Thicket." The articles are all illustrated with photographs, mostly color, but s...
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Pots and Pans of Classical Athens. Miniature Sculpture From the Athenian Agora. Lamps From the Athenian Agora.

By: Sparkes, Brian A.; Thompson, Dorothy Burr; Perlzweig, Judith

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, American Shool of Classical Studies at Athens: 1961, 1962,1963

Seller ID: 4026

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Fine condition

These three booklets about ancient Athens are accompanied by another four in a separate lot here. It's amazing how clean, bright, and crisp they are with no defects of note. They all show black and white photographs and some drawings and all measure 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". All together they contain 89 pages.
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Category: Ancient Civilizations