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Archaeology

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Item #9767 Archaeozoological Studies: Papers of the Archaeozoological Conference 1974, Held at...

A.T. Clason [ed.]

Archaeozoological Studies: Papers of the Archaeozoological Conference 1974, Held at the Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut of the State University of Groningen [Festschrift for Dr. J. Lepiksaar]

Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. Octavo; xv, 477pp. Charts and illustrations throughout. Essays in English, German, and French. Ocean leatherette boards with white lettering. Boards are sturdy and square with a bit of nudging to spine ends. Previous owner's name stamped on front pastedown and top edge..... More

Price: $60.00

Item #12021 American Art Review: A Journal Devoted to the Practice, Theory, History, and...

[Art History]

American Art Review: A Journal Devoted to the Practice, Theory, History, and Archæology of Art [Vols. I-II]

Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, 1880-1881. First Edition. Two volumes; large, thick quartos; publisher's half brown morocco over textured gilt-lettered cloth, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],556; ix,[1],269pp.; original engraved frontispieces, Vol. I contains sixty plates, including original engravings (collated and complete); Vol..... More

Price: $750.00

Item #9801 Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies: A Gulf of Maine...

Bruce J. Bourque

Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies: A Gulf of Maine Perspective [Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology]

New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1995. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; xvi, 411pp. Photos and illustrations throughout. Illustrated paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Boards sturdy and square with no significant signs of shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More

Price: $75.00

Item #11560 Origin of the Far Eastern Civilizations: A Brief Handbook (Smithsonian Institution...

Carl Whiting Bishop

Origin of the Far Eastern Civilizations: A Brief Handbook (Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies Number One, Publication 3681)

Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1942. First Edition. Small Octavo (23x15.5cm); 53pp, augmented with 12 additional unpaginated plates; includes bibliography. In addition to the 12 plates, illustrated throughout with 21 documentary figures embedded in the text. Flecked gray governmental card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers toned along spine with a...... More

Price: $25.00

Item #9799 Spatial Archaeology. David L. Clarke, ed

David L. Clarke [ed.]

Spatial Archaeology

London: Academic Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; xi, 286pp. Illustrations and graphs throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards with blindstamped logo and rules and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shelfworn with a few shallow, closed tears along edges and a bit of general toning and smudging. Boards are..... More

Price: $45.00

Item #12561 Tangled Machinery and Charred Relics: The Historical and Archaeological Investigation...

Franklin N. Chance; Paul C. Chance; David L. Topper

Tangled Machinery and Charred Relics: The Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the C.S.S. Nashville [Limited Edition]

Orangeburg, SC: Sun Printing, 1985. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 834. Quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; viii,267pp.; illus. throughout, including folding plates. Shelf wear along spine edges and spine creased, else Very Good or better. More

Price: $65.00

Item #13400 Windover: Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early Archaic Florida Cemetery. Glen...

Glen H. Doran [ed.]; Jerald T. Milanich [fwd.]

Windover: Multidisciplinary Investigations of an Early Archaic Florida Cemetery

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida / UPF, 2002. First Edition. Quarto. 392 pp. Black and white charts, graphs, photos, and illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Sky blue and speckled beige boards stamped in gilt. Light rubbing and creasing to edges of dust jacket. Boards gently rubbed at extremities..... More

Price: $75.00

Item #11124 A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw. Hans Konrad Van...

Hans Konrad Van Tilburg; James C. Bradford [fwd.]; Gene Allen Smith [fwd.]

A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board USS Saginaw

Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial boards, no jacket as issued; xiv,361pp.; illus. throughout, including facsimiles and satellite views. Just About Fine. Historical reconstruction of the Civil War gunboat the USS Saginaw and its shipwreck in 1870, not discovered until a research dive..... More

Price: $65.00

Item #13581 Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern...

James Lawrence Powell

Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology [Signed to Stephen Jay Gould]

New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998. First Printing, stated. Signed by the author to paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on front free endpaper with inscription "To Steve Gould, with best regards. Jim Powell." Octavo; xvi, 250pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $22.95 price intact; bound in blue-gray..... More

Price: $50.00

Item #9000 Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan [ 响堂山石窟项目...

Katherine R. Tsiang

Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan [ 响堂山石窟项目 ]

Chicago and Washington, D.C.: Smart Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2010. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x23x2cm); 271pp, including map, chronology, glossary, and bibliography. Color photographs, B&W historical images, and computer recreations on nearly every page. Photographic card wrappers with generous French flaps. Entirely in English. Volume..... More

Price: $65.00

Item #13569 The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the...

Kenneth D. Rose

The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary [Signed to Stephen Jay Gould]

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, 1981. First Edition. Signed to paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould at top of half title with inscription "To Steve with best wishes, Ken." Tipped in posthumous bookplate by Eureka Books inside front cover noting provenance. Quarto (11" x 8.5");..... More

Price: $50.00

Item #9837 Sharks and Shark Products in Prehistoric South Florida [Monograph 2 - University of...

Laura Kozuch

Sharks and Shark Products in Prehistoric South Florida [Monograph 2 - University of Florida Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies]

Gainesville, FL: University of Florida / Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, 1993. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's staplebound card wrappers; vii,[1],52pp.; illus. throughout. Some toning to wrapper extremities, ownership rubberstamp and signature to front cover, manuscript title and author added along spine edge; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound..... More

Price: $50.00

Item #9768 Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology [Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology]. Marie...

Marie Agnes Courty; Paul Goldberg; Richard Macphail

Soils and Micromorphology in Archaeology [Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. First Edition. Small quarto (10" x 7"); xx, 344pp. Illustrated throughout, with 8pp full color photo plates at center. Errata slip laid in. Illustrated ivory leatherette. No dust jacket as issued. Boards are sturdy and square with no significant signs of shelfwear. Prior owner's name..... More

Price: $80.00

Item #8807 Science and Civilisation in China, Volume V, Part 12. Rose Kerr, Nigel Wood, Ts'ai...

Rose Kerr; Nigel Wood; Ts'ai Mei-Fen; Zhang Fukang; Joseph Needham [series ed.]

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume V, Part 12

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (25.5x20x6.5cm); xlix + 918pp, including three bibliographies; index; romanization table; and chronology. Illustrated with 172 photographs (largely in color), maps, and reproductions of scroll- and line-drawings; 158 scientific charts and tables. Very Good. Dust jacket reproduces Taoist genii from a painted temple..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #12071 Pisekin Noomw Noon Tonaachaw: Archaeology in the Tonaachaw Historic District, Moen...

Thomas F. King; Patricia L. Parker

Pisekin Noomw Noon Tonaachaw: Archaeology in the Tonaachaw Historic District, Moen Island [Micronesian Archaeological Survey Report No. 18]

Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations, 1984. First Edition. Quarto; xxxii, 541pp. Orange paper wraps. Photos, maps, and diagrams throughout. Covers a bit bumped and smudged near head and tail of spine, with a bit of fading along bottom edge. Appears signed with inscription by co-author King on title page, though..... More

Price: $75.00

Item #8939 Auspicious Ju-i Scepters of China 吉祥如意文物特展圖錄. Xiasheng Chen...

Xiasheng Chen 陳夏生

Auspicious Ju-i Scepters of China 吉祥如意文物特展圖錄

Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1995. First Edition. Octavo in slipcase (volume 29x22x2.5cm; slipcase 30.5x22.5x3cm); 287pp. Full-color full-page plates for each of 130 catalogued items; images repeated as B&W thumbnails for final index of specifications. About 90 additional color and B&W photographs and documentary images in introduction. Principally in Chinese; augmented..... More

Price: $165.00

Item #6884 Yale College in 1875: Some Statements Respecting the Late Progress and Present...

[Yale College] Executive Committee of the Society of the Alumni

Yale College in 1875: Some Statements Respecting the Late Progress and Present Condition of the Various Departments of the University, for the information of its graduates, friends, and benefactors...June 1, 1875

[New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor], 1875. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 28pp. Slightly ex-New York State Library with their contemporary rubber-stamp to title page, light soil, else Very Good. Includes the University's budget and a list of donations to the library and museums over the course..... More

Price: $50.00

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