Search results for: 'the works'
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PRINSEP, Henry Thoby. Note on the Historical Results, deducible from recent Discoveries in Afghanistan.London : 1844
First edition. Prinsep (1792-1878) was a long-time "servant of John Company" and "recognized as one of ablest men in the service" (ODNB). On his retirement in 1843 after over 30 years in the sub-continent, he and his wife Sara, sister to Julia Margaret Cameron, set up in Little Holland House where their salon was "one of the artistic and literary centres... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 127436
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BILLING, Archibald. The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals, Ancient and Modern.London : 1867
First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to sculptor John Graham Lough: "To John Graham Esq. and his amiable wife, this volume conveys the sincere regards, of the Author and his wife" (half-title). Archibald Billing (1791-1881) was a physician by trade and an amateur artist and collector of engraved gems and coins. A lecturer at the... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 109013
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(SCOTT, Sir Walter.) BOWER, John. Description of the Abbeys of Melrose, and Old Melrose, with their traditions.Edinburgh : 1822
Presentation copy from the dedicatee Sir Walter Scott to Thomas Moore, inscribed in Scott's hand on the front blank, "Thomas Moore from his affectionate friend Walter Scott, Melrose Abbey, 31 October 1825", with Moore's ownership inscription below and his bookplate to the front pastedown. The presentation was made on the occasion of Moore's "long meditated... Learn More£6,250.00Stock Code: 125496
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SCHLIEMANN, Heinrich. Five large original photographs of excavations at Troy (3), Mycenae (1) and Samothrace (1) - from the private collection of Heinrich Schliemann, with his holograph annotations.Troy, Mycenae, Samothrace (present day western Turkey and Greece) : c.1879
Fascinating, unpublished and extremely scarce archive of four original photographs from Schliemann's pioneering excavations at Troy and Mycenae, and another of Samothrace, where work was conducted by Schliemann's compatriot Alexander Conze (1831-1914). The three views taken at Troy (1871-73) show the massive outer walls of King Priam's city on the left... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 121338
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MACLAUCHLAN, Henry. The Roman Wall,1857-64
First editions. The first named with the inscription, "Presented to Henry Lawes Long Esq., by The Duke of Northumberland, Syon 27th August 1859" to the first blank and circular, sepia lithographed Long armorial bookplate to the front pastedown; the second inscribed "With the Duke of Northumberland's Compliments" verso of the first blank. In 1804 Henry... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 68827
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LAYARD, Austen H. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon;London : 1853
First edition. Layard's important second British Museum expedition "yielded further important trophies and discoveries, including the cuneiform library of Sennacherib's grandson Ashurbanipal, on which most modern knowledge of Assyrian culture is founded" (ODNB). "Apart from the archaeological value of his work in identifying Kouyunjik as the site of... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 139903
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(BEWICK, Thomas.) LINGARD, John. The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church.Newcastle : 1806
First edition of the first work of John Lingard (1771-1851), Roman Catholic priest and historian, "a work which reveals him to be a moderate upholder of the Catholic cisalpine and Gallican tradition of historical scholarship. In this work he sought to oppose the errors of a generation of protestant Anglo-Saxon scholars who argued for an English church,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 121264
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BUDGE, Sir E. A. Wallis. The Papyrus of Ani.London : 1913
First edition thus. "The Papyrus of Ani, which was acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1888, is the largest, the most perfect, and the best illuminated of all the papyri containing copies of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead." (Preface) First published in facsimile in 1890, with a second edition and accompanying translation... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 139361
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LAWRENCE, T. E., & C. Leonard Woolley. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, 1914-1915. The Wilderness of Zin.London : 1915
First edition, sole printing, in the second issue binding without the full stop after the date on the spine. During January and February of 1914 Lawrence and Leonard Woolley (the archaeologist who would later excavate Ur), together with a British Army surveying detachment, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula. The Negev was ruled by the Ottoman... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 108986
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LAWRENCE, T. E., & C. Leonard Woolley. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, 1914-1915. The Wilderness of Zin.London : 1915
First edition, sole printing, in the second issue binding without the full stop after the date on the spine. During January and February of 1914 Lawrence and Leonard Woolley (the archaeologist who would later excavate Ur), together with a British Army surveying detachment, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula. The Negev was ruled by the Ottoman... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 103359
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LAWRENCE, T. E., & C. Leonard Woolley. Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, 1914-1915. The Wilderness of Zin.London : 1915
First edition, first issue binding with the full stop after the date on the spine. During January and February 1914 Lawrence and Leonard Woolley (the archaeologist who would later excavate Ur), together with a British Army surveying detachment, mapped the Negev region of the Sinai Peninsula. The Negev was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, and the survey... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 108832
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CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace. The Tomb of Tutankhamen.London : 1923-33
First editions, first impressions, in notably attractive condition, of Carter's popular account of the most spectacular archaeological discovery of the 20th century. Volume I of this set has the publisher's "presentation copy" blindstamp on the title page, and is in the uncommon publisher's presentation binding, with a brown morocco ground to front... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 141797
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HOPE, W[illiam] H[enry] St John. The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter.Westminster : 1901
First edition in a handsome binding. Hope was a noted antiquarian born in Derby in 1854. "His increasing reputation led to his election as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1883, and two years later he was appointed assistant secretary of the society, the last to be resident in Burlington House. During the twenty-five years in which... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140529
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WINKLER, Hans A. Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt II.London : 1939
First edition. A handsomely produced survey of sites found on the west bank of the Nile from Qena to Aswan, Jebel Uweinat and the road leading from the Nile Valley to Dakhla through the Kharga Oasis; volume I related the previous season's expedition, to the Eastern desert. "The recognition of Egyptian rock art as something that could be closely linked... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 99991
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LEAKE, William Martin. The Topography of Athens with some Remarks on its Antiquities.London : 1821
First edition. "The basis for modern topographical and archaeological studies of the city. A very important work" (Blackmer). Trained at the Royal Military Academy, Leake served for three years on the garrison at Antigua before joining the British military mission to the Ottoman empire in 1799. He accompanied an Anglo-Turkish expedition overland to... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 106230
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MACPHERSON, Duncan. Antiquities of Kertch and Researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus.London : 1857
First and only edition, uncommon. "An example of the degree of technical virtuosity reached by this time in lithography, giving plates brilliant in effect, the equivalent of modern four-colour process work from photographs. It is very difficult to tell whether, or to what extent, the plates are touched by hand The inks are excellent, with some strong... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 109135
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MACPHERSON, Duncan. Antiquities of Kertch and Researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus.London : 1857
First and only edition, uncommon. "An example of the degree of technical virtuosity reached by this time in lithography, giving plates brilliant in effect, the equivalent of modern four-colour process work from photographs. It is very difficult to tell whether, or to what extent, the plates are touched by hand The inks are excellent, with some strong... Learn More£2,875.00Stock Code: 71516
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GIDDINGS, J. L. The Archaeology of Cape Denbigh.Providence, RI : 1964
First edition, first impression. James Louis Denbigh (1909-1965) was a professor anthropology at Brown University and pioneer in the application of dendrochronology (the study of tree rings) to Arctic archaeology. "Working with samples from living trees and driftwood from old Eskimo village sites on the Kobuk, he established a tree-ring chronology for... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 86686
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MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey.Oxford : 1933
First and only edition of an important study, never superseded, which in fact "remains the only authoritative work on the subject" (obituary, Rice & Hirschberg, Ars Orientalis, IV, 1961). Mayer was born in Galicia in 1895, studied in Vienna, Lausanne and Berlin, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921 where he was employed in Department of Antiquities.... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 110826
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BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake. A Topographical History of Surrey.1841
First edition. "Brayley's most important work was probably a History of Surrey (5 vols., 18418). His topographical works bear scrutiny because of his competence in a range of scientific, literary, and artistic subjects, a breadth of knowledge which few other contemporary topographers could match" (ODNB). A handsomely bound set. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 70458
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POUJADE, Jean. Documents d'Ethnographie Navale.Paris : 1946-8
First editions, all published. Uncommon. An excellent set of these important works of naval ethnography, forming a series on boat construction around the world. The series was planned as a supplement to Admiral François-Edmond Paris' famous Souvenirs de Marine Conservés , first published in 1877, the Fascicule Introductif including an index to Paris'... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 94734
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HAMILTON, Sir William. Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman AntiquitiesNaples : 1766-7 [actually 1767-76]
First edition of this magnificent and notably rare work, of which only 100 complete sets were produced, a publication which had an enormous influence on contemporary taste.
Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803), diplomatist and art collector, was appointed British envoy-extraordinary to the Spanish court at Naples in 1764, during that city's Golden... Learn More£160,000.00Stock Code: 124586
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THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell. A Dictionary of Assyrian Botany.London : 1949
First and only edition. Well-represented institutionally, and occasionally encountered on the market, but rarely without library paraphernalia, and in such sound condition. Thompson was one of the leading Assyriologists of his era, his skill in the transcription of cuneiform being such that some of "those in Thompson's handscript remain indispensable"... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 140452
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SERJEANT, R. B., & Ronald Lewcock (eds.) San'â': An Arabian Islamic City.London : 1983
First edition, number 1,911 of 2,000 copies only. The work of a team of internationally respected experts in a wide range of disciplines, this is a case-study of major scholastic importance in which the society - along with the complex religious, legal and mercantile setting - long history, crafts, arts, and religious and vernacular architecture of... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136295
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MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey.Oxford : 1933
First and only edition, with the bookplate of Comte François Chandon de Briailles, member of the famous Champagne family and gentleman scholar of numismatics and heraldry. An important study, never superseded, in fact "remains the only authoritative work on the subject" (Obituary, Rice & Hirschberg, Ars Orientalis, IV, 1961). Mayer was born in Galicia... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 127302
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MAYER, Leo Aryeh. Saracenic Heraldry. A Survey.Oxford : 1933
First and only edition. An important study, never superseded, in fact "remains the only authoritative work on the subject" (Obituary, Rice & Hirschberg, Ars Orientalis, IV, 1961). Mayer was born in Galicia in 1895, studied in Vienna, Lausanne and Berlin, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1921 where he was employed in Department of Antiquities.... Learn More£825.00Stock Code: 111051
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[AYROLLES, Bertrand d'.] Dictionnaire classique de géographie ancienne, pour l'intelligence des auteurs anciens, servant d'introduction à celui de la géographie moderne de Laurent Echard,Paris : 1768
First and sole edition; Copac cites Scotland and Wellcome only among British and Irish institutional libraries, OCLC adds another dozen worldwide. The dedicatee is François-Louis-Claude Marin, royal censor and Secretaire General de la Librairie - the editor mentioning that it was printed at Avignon where "je puis braver... la severite de votre Police"... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 121038
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LAYARD, Austin Henry. Nineveh and Its Remains:1849
First edition. Layard who "grew up a Romantic, desperate for fame and exotic experiences, and contemptuous of English professional mores", turned his back on steady employ in his uncle's solicitor's office and set of overland to join another uncle in Ceylon. Side-tracked by adventure he set aside his original itinerary and lived for some time in the... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 133106
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CESNOLA, General Louis Palma Di. Cyprus:London : 1877
First edition of this controversial work on Cypriot antiques by Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904) an Italian-American soldier, diplomat, and amateur archaeologist. He was United States consul at Larnaca in Cyprus from 1865 to 1877, a time during which he carried out extensive excavations and uncovered a large quantity of antiquities. The collection... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132949
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LABORDE, Léon de. Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée.Paris : 1830
First edition of "an important work" (Blackmer), extensively illustrated with lithographs, and including a lengthy introductory essay on different aspects of the region, including travel, pilgrim routes, and trade. In 1826 the 17-year-old de Laborde (1809-1869) travelled with his father across Asia Minor and Syria to Cairo, where he met the engineer... Learn More£19,500.00Stock Code: 107973
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MILLIN, Aubin-Louis. Introductions a l'Étude de l'Archéologie, des Pierres Gravées et des Médailles.Paris : 1826
First posthumous edition of this essay first published in 1796 as an introduction to the study of ancient monuments.
In this work, Aubin Louis Eleuthérophile Millin de Grandmaison (1759-1818) reviews the various applications of archaeology (which he divides into nine categories: monuments, paintings, sculptures, engravings, mosaics, vases, instruments,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 117619
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EBERS, G. Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque.London : c. 1880
First edition in English of this impressive work, originally published as Aegypten in Bild und Wort (1878-79), by the German Egyptologist Georg Ebers (1837-1898), who gave his name to the Ebers Papyrus, one of the world's oldest medical documents, acquired in Upper Egypt from a Coptic antiquarian during the winter of 1872-3. This English version is... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139417
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PRESUHN, Emil. Pompeji: die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881 für Kunst-und-Alterhumfreunde.Leipzig : 1881
Second edition, improved and enlarged, of this superbly illustrated and important study; first published in 1878 and again in 1882. Scarce, one copy only among British and Irish institutional libraries (V&A); OCLC adds just three more (Strasbourg, Erlangen, Sachsiche Landesbibliothek).
The German archaeologist Emil Presuhn (1844-1881), described... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 129881
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STEIN, M. Aurel. Serindia.Oxford : 1921
First edition, first impression, of this landmark work which has a strong claim to be the single most important text on Central Asia. Stein explains in his introduction: "The term Serindia, as adopted (in the form Sérinde) by valued French fellow-scholars, is excellently suited for the designation of this region, well-defined by nature as well as by... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 125986
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CARAPANOS, Constantin. Dodone et ses Ruines.Paris : 1878
First and only edition, well represented institutionally, but uncommon on the market with just a single set recorded at auction. An attractive, if mildly tenuous, association copy inscribed "Au très Honorable Lord Houghton, Hommage, Constantin Carapanos". Born at Arta in Epirus, Carapanos studied law at the University of Athens, on graduation joining... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 132854
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LAYARD, Austen Henry. Nineveh and Its Remains:London : 1849
First edition. Layard who "grew up a Romantic, desperate for fame and exotic experiences, and contemptuous of English professional mores", turned his back on steady employ in his uncle's solicitor's office and set of overland to join another uncle in Ceylon. Side-tracked by adventure he set aside his original itinerary and lived for some time in the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140572
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RHOTERT, Hans, ed. Transjordanien. Vorgeschichtliche Forschungen.Stuttgart : 1938
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Rhotert on the front free endpaper to an unnamed recipient, thanking them for their support for the Forschungsinstituts für Kulturmorphologie. The leader's account of the work of the Nordgruppe der XII. Deutschen-Innerafrikanischen Forschungsexpedition in the Transjordan and Libya includes the first scientific... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 92497
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GUISCHARDT, Karl Gottlieb. Mémoires critiques et historiques sur plusieurs points d'antiquités militairesBerlin : 1773
True first edition, predating the Paris edition by a year. Guiscahrdt was born in Magdeburg in 1724, the son of Huguenot refugees he was intended for the church, "and at Leiden actually preached a sermon as a candidate for the pastorate. But he abandoned theology for more secular studies, especially that of ancient history" (Britannica, 1911). He served... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 104149
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PARMENTIER, H. Les Sculptures Chames au Musée du Tourane.1922
First Edition. Volume IV in the "Ars Asiatica" series published under the aegis of L'École Française d'Extrème-Orient. A trained architect and one of the founding fathers of the EFEO school of archaeology, Parmentier's work on Cham culture and later at Angkor were key in the interpretation of the early civilizations of Indochina. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 39622
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CARUANA, A. A. Ancient Pagan Tombs and Christian Cemeteries,Malta : 1898
First and only edition of this study of early funerary antiquities and practices in Malta by Dr. Antonio Annetto Caruana (1830-1905), a "pioneer in the field of Heritage Management in the Maltese islands" (Romina Delia).
Caruana was an archaeologist and author, who served as Librarian and Keeper of Antiquities at the Malta Library from 1880 to 1896.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133559
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FORSTER, E. M. Alexandria: A History and A Guide.Alexandria : 1922
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Forster "AJB, from the author" on the front free endpaper, and with the ownership inscription of the recipient, A. J. Butler, on the front board. This is Oxford historian Alfred Joshua Butler (1850-1936), whose work The Arab Conquest of Egypt (1902) Forster cites as his main source for the period, and describes... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 112539
