Item #00008870 Prehellenic Architecture in the Aegean. Edward Bell.

Prehellenic Architecture in the Aegean

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [1], 2-213, [1], [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Teal blue cloth with lime green lettering on the spine. Price of 10/6 net on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighty black and white photographs, plans, diagrams, and maps. Part of the series, "The Origins of Architecture". Legacy Obituaries, "Bruce Bryan". This book is from the library of Bruce Bryan, a curator of archaeological artefacts for the Southwest Museum in southern California. Bryan was also an archaeologist for the Los Angeles Field Museum of Natural History (Legacy Obituaries, "Bruce Bryan"). The front pastedown contains his bookplate and the front flyleaf has his name in ink. A fascinating study of architecture in Crete and Troy, architecture completed long before the mainland Greeks would rise to power. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #00008870

A Near Fine book with the pageblock showing moderate toning; dust jacket is Very Good with a few traces of edge wear and a tape ghost to the reverse of the dust jacket.

Price: $75.00

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