The First Merchant Venturers,The Ancient Levant In History and Commerce (Library of the Early Civilisations)

Thames & Hudson, London, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. General Editor's Preface – Professor Stuart Piggott, introduction by author, chronology, bibliography, listed illustration and index. The text is illustrated with 109 black-and-white illustrations and 30 coloured plates. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt embossed publisher's logo to the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. Colour photographic dustwrapper with blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. All the great civilisations of the Mediterranean region, the Egyptians, Babylonians, Hurrians, Canaanites, Hittities, Minoans, Cypriots and Mycenaean Greeks had one major contact with each other and that was the Syrian and Palestinian seaboard. As civilisations waxed and waned – the merchants,the Levants, plied their trade with whoever. This book tells the story of the commercial history of the ancient Mediterranean. Library of the Early Civilisations series. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing of the top book corners and lower book edges. A few flecking marks to the lower edge of the book. Light age toning of the text block edges and pages and an erasure mark can be seen to the top right hand corner of the free front end page. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels and there is some chipping to the top and bottom back strip edges. Fading of the back strip. A brown stain can be seen along the left hand edge of the front panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (6), 7-144 pages,. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; sociology; Mediterranean; Ancient (BC); Archaeology. Inventory No: 0287975. .