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
London: Thames and Hudson (1968), 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-253, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated with eight figures and eleven tables. Professor Bickerman here lays out the available evidence needed for dating events in the ancient world. Part of..... More
London: Thames and Hudson [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-258, [2] pp. Green cloth over boards with gold lettering on the spine and light green topstain. Price of 21s. on front flap. Illustrated with 78 photographs, 50 line drawings, and 7 maps. Volume 3 in Ancient Peoples and..... 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
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
London: Thames and Hudson [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-272 pp. Navy blue cloth with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Price of 30s. on front flap. With 73 photographs, 48 line drawings, and 20 maps. Volume 13 in..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10-288, [4] pp. Quarter beige cloth over brown paper boards with brown lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. With a few black and white photographs. Near Fine book in a price-clipped dust jacket..... 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
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
New York: Scribner & Welford, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xx, [3], 2-200, (several unpaginated plates), [2] pp. Brown cloth with black rules on the boards, black lettering on the front board, gold lettering on the spine, gold decoration on the front board. Illustrated with a map of the..... More