Oxford: Trustees of the British Museum, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-li, [2], 2-190, [2] pp. Original dark brown cloth with borders in blind on both boards, twin gilt rules and lettering in gilt on the spine, dark brown endpapers and pastedowns. Erratum slip tipped in. Introduction and notes..... More
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 black and white plates. Name on the free front..... More
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Francofurti [= Frankfurt]: In Officina Broenneriana [= At the Press of Broenner], 1824. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 4-471, [3] pp. Mid 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with a red and a black morocco label lettered in gold; all edges decoratively stained. Pink endpapers 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 black and white..... More
Glasgow: R. Urie, 1753. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-x, [1], 2-144, [2] pp. Contemporary smooth calf with the spine in six compartments, a maroon morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges decoratively speckled. Completing the title page: Wherein are Proved, I. That the Oracles were not..... 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. Both volume's title pages printed in red and black. Volume one..... More
[New York]: Elisabeth Sifton Books / Viking (1986), 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-131, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A short treatise on the methods of studying and writing about ancient history..... 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
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, 1-618, [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gold and black decorations on the front board and spine, gold lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several in-text and a few full-page..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press (2004), 2004. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-xx, [1], 2-424, [4] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated with a map in the rear of the volume. Translated into English by H. St. J. Thackeray, series edited by Jeffrey..... 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. Half contemporary morocco ruled in gilt over pale blue cloth, winged bull embossed in gilt on the front board, blindstamped..... 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 half 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 black and white 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: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xii, [1], 2-388 pp. Dark orange publisher's cloth with black rules on the boards, a gilt decoration ruled in black on the front board, gold lettering and black decorations on the spine; top edge decoratively darkened. Black coated endpapers and..... More