Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 2-310 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $24.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes bibliography and index. A work on the peoples that the..... More
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..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], vii-ix, [9], 3-383, [1], vii, [7] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Illustrated with several maps and plates. A history of Dilmun, a Middle Eastern ancient civilization older than Sumer, known to Assyrian..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 275, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with..... More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xvii, [3], 299, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text photographs of Ostrogoth artifacts. Traces of foxing to the textblock; jacket shows a bit of creasing and a small closed tear to..... More
London (Londini): Excudit S. Hamilton, 1816. Later edition. Hardcover. 18mo. 8 cm x 12.5 cm. [5], 2-468, [4] pp. Bound in beautiful contemporary straight-grained red morocco with decorations in gilt on the boards and spine (spine is in six compartments). All edges gilt. Biographical Portrait of the Netherlands: "Franz van..... More
Woodstock: The Overlook Press [2006], 2006. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxxvii, [1], 313, [1] pp. Quarter black paper over brown paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $30.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several maps and black and white photographs of..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin LTD (1961), 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-263, [1] pp. Black cloth with light blue lettering on the spine; light blue topstain. Price of 28s. on front flap. Illustrated with a full-page map and several duotone plates. Name on the free front endpaper and..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-237, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 55d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text figures and with sixteen plates of duotone drawings. A...... More
Amstelaedami: Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [16], 672; 590, [56] pp. Contemporary full vellum, spines in seven compartments, each spine with a maroon morocco label lettered in gilt. Fore-edge and bottom textblock decoratively speckled. Volume one illustrated with twenty-five copper-engraved plates (portraits of select philosophers)..... More
London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, Printers to the Society of Antiquaries, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4vo. [7], vi-xvi, [1], 2-486, [2]; [2], iii-iv, [1], 488-955, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Half-bound in smooth navy calf over pebbled blue cloth; two maroon morocco labels..... More
Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-224 pp. Quarter beige cloth over black paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text diagrams. A Near Fine book in a like dust jacket with a tiny spot of discoloration on the..... More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol bound in one. Large 8vo. ii-viii, [1], 4-7, [2], 10-326; [3], 2-4, [1], vi-viii, [1], 10-373, [1] pp. Each volume illustrated with a lithograph frontispiece, volume one illustrated with three folding plans, 13 woodcut figures, eleven plates (one..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster [1962], 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], xi-xiii, [3], 3-474 pp. Grey cloth with orange and black decorations on the front board, black lettering on the spine; green topstain. Price of $8.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a double-page map..... More
London: Printed by Richards and Co., 1823. Later edition. Hardcover. 6 vol. 8vo. [3], ii-xxxvi, [1], 38-403, [3]; [3], 2-426, [2]; [3], 2-396, [2]; [3], 2-422, [2]; [3], 2-394, [2]; [3], 2-402, [20] pp. Later three-quarter smooth calf over purple pebbled cloth, spine in six compartments, green morocco label lettered..... More
London: Quercus (2011), 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxx, [2], 3-416, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £25 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several color photographs. Includes an index. A tiny separation between the backstrip and the textblock, else Fine in..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (1989), 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 322, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several duotone plates and a few in-text diagrams. Includes a bibliography and an index. More
New York: Fredrick A. Praeger [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-324 pp. Light green cloth with gold lettering on the spine and brown topstain. Price of $10.00 on front flap. Illustrated with 66 photographs, 68 line drawings, and 23 maps. Volume 61 in Ancient Peoples and Places, General..... More
London: Hutchinson University Library (1971), 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 12-240 pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £2.50 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a fold-out chronology of the region, maps, and several black and white photographs and drawings..... More
London: Cassell (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-209, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. The story of four noble women who influenced the governance of Rome during the second century A.D. Oxford Classical Dictionary 777-778. A Near Fine book with faint offsetting to the..... More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company [1961], 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Quarter black cloth over brown, blue, and black patterned paper boards with gold lettering and blue decoration on the spine, light blue topstain. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black..... More
London: John Murray, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xxxvi, 504, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [4], v-xiv, 588, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Blue cloth with a gilt decoration on each front board, spines lettered in gilt. Each volume illustrated with a color frontispiece and forty-seven..... More