Search Results: Ancient Art from Design Books

Firenze: Leo S.Olschki Editore, 1968. This is a very good softcover copy in the original publisher's printed wrappers with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out except for a neat small personal handstamp from the well known New York art historian previous owner. Text in Italian. Illustrated in black & white with 10 photographic plates. 10" high X 7" wide, 91 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: New York University Press, 1977. This is an about very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket. Front brown endpaper missing. The jacket is complete, rear panel sunned evenly, now an ivory color. Very clean inside and out, just a few small brown spots to the page edges. 911 illustrations in black & white. 11" high X 9" wide, 302 text pages + plates. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Istanbul, Turkey : Ege Yayinlari, 2014. This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine illustrated hardshell pictorial slipcase. The slipcase has a little wear at the corners. Heavy mylar dust wrapper, has a chip at the top of the spine. Completely clean inside and out. Massive visual compilation of 16 ancient Greek theaters in Anatolia (present day Turkey). R. R. R. Smith is perhaps the pre-eminent scholar of this part of the ancient world. He has been in charge of excavating the antiquities of Aphrodisias in the 1980's. Since 1995 he has been the Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford. Each one of the 16 ancient theaters is presented with 174 detailed color photographs, technical drawings, architectural elevations and floor plans, etc. Texts by R.R.R. Smith and Jane Messeglia. Photography by Ahmet Ertug. Oversize volume: 14" high X 18" wide, 208 pages. Weight before wrapping is 14 lbs. 6 ounces. Large very heavy book, foreign shipping will be… Read More

Mainz/Rhein, 1979-90.: Philip von Zabern Verlag This is a fine hardcover three volume set in near fine clear acetate wrappers. Completely clean inside and out. Feels unread. Text mainly in German. All volumes edited by Ernst Berger. Essays by over a dozen scholars including John Boardman, Emily Vermeule, Gunter Neumann, Ingo Pini, Margot Schmidt, Erika Simon, among many others. This is the complete documentation of the Ludwig Collection of ancient Greek and Roman art. Volume 1: Fruhe Tonsarkophage und Vasen. Katalog und Einzeldarstellungen, 5 color plates + many black & white illus. 251 pp.,1979 (acetate wrapper chipped rear panel). Volume 2: Terrakotten und Bronzen, 314 pp. 1 color plate + 214 illus.,1982. Volume 3: Skulpturen, color frontispiece + 394 black & white plates + 55 additional smaller b/w photographs + 24 illus. in the text + maps. 11" high X 9" wide, 532 pp., 1990. Large heavy books foreign shipping will be extra. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a… Read More

Osnabruck : Otto Zeller, 1965. This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Very clean inside and out. Text in German. This is a reprint of the second and third editions of 1920 and 1924. Illustrated in black & white with 18 full-page plates + 78 figures in the text. 8" high X 6" wide, 243 text pages + plates. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, 1967. This is a very good softcover copy of this journal with only light wear and cover soil. Spine not creased, binding tight. Very clean inside. Text in French. Articles by 9 scholars on African antiquities. Illustrated in black & white. 11" high X 8" wide, 144 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Denmark: Natl Museum of Denmark, 1988. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear to cover edges. Completely clean inside and out. Map is present in rear pocket. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 260 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1985. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Rear cover lower corner slight crease. Text in GERMAN. Contains three articles by Brommer: Zu den Metopen des Tempels E in Selinunt; Der Selbstmord des Aias; and Zu Einem Dionysosfest. Illustrated in black & white with some photographs. 11" high X 8" wide about 12 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1966. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear, a few short closed tears to jacket edges. Completely clean inside and out. Text and plates all completely clean, no tanning or yellowing to page edges. Text in Spanish. Stated first edition. Illustrated with several color plates + hundreds of black & white line drawings + photographs. 11" high X 8" wide, 262 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Harry N Abrams, 1968. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. The jacket is complete, no chips. Completely clean inside and out save for two very small personal names stamped to inside rear cover, and verso of endpaper. Slight yellowing to tops of page-edges. This is the 1st edition, not the later reprint. 904 illustrations including 145 color plates + 135 plans, elevations, sites, and diagrams + 15 maps and charts. 12" high X 10" wide, 600 pages. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. (This book will fit into USPS Flat Rate Priority Airmail box at $62.00 for shipping overseas). . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Barcelona: Editorial Labor, S.A., 1947. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with only light wear. The jacket is almost complete, just a piece out of the rear panel top edge. Very clean inside and out. This is a Spanish edition of Rodenwaldt's classic Hellas und Rom, first published in Germany by the Propylaen Verlag in the 1920's. The book has their typical binding: black leather spine and corners, printed in red and gilt, and green paper-covered boards. Editorial Labor brought out the whole series of Propylaen Verlag. This is their volume 3. Text in Spanish. Many tipped-in color plates + illustrations in black & white. Bibliography. 11" high X 7 1/2" wide, 900 pages. A beautiful copy in the scarce dust jacket. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Lima, Peru: Banco de Crédito del Per, 1991. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket, just a little wear around the edges. Completely clean. Text in SPANISH. Illustrated in black & white and color.Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 169 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Hildesheim New York: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1962. This is a very good hardcover copy in slightly soiled gray cloth. Completely clean inside. Text in German. This is the 1962 edition. 40 black & white photographic plates of Greek pottery and some sculpture showing details of festivals. Fold-out 'Festkalendar'. 10" high X 7" wide, 266 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with only light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out, no marks anywhere. Illustrated in black & white with photographs, architectural drawings, elevations, details, prints, etc. Bibliography. 10" high X 8" wide, 336 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Rutgers University Press,, 2006. This is a very good hardcover copy in very good dust jacket with light wear. Completely clean. Maps and charts. Glossary. Bibliography. 9" high X 6" wide, 807 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato, 1981. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out save for the ownership stamp of a prominent New York art historian on the front endpaper, otherwise free of marks. Text in Italian. This volume of the Bollettino is devoted to the famous Ancient Greek crater the 'Francois Vase' discovered in 1844 by Alessandro Francois in an Etruscan tomb near Chiusi, Italy and dates to the mid- 6th century B.C. 7 color plates + 248 black & white photographs and drawings, fold-outs. 11" high X 9" wide, 201 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: The British Museum, 1968. This is a good hardcover reference copy in an about very good dust jacket. Slight exposure to moisture makes this a reference copy. The page-edge has very faint tan spots. But no stains internally, just a little stiffness to the lower part of the pages. NO mustiness, no stains. The jacket is worn around the edges, corners, and small piece gone from base of spine. Jacket bottom edge stuck to book front and rear boards. All text and plates clean. 35 black & white plates + many drawings in the text. This is the 1968 reprint of the Marshall's classic work first published by the British Museum in 1902. 10" high X 8" wide, 258 text pages + plates. A good reference copy of this important work. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.

Paris: Caisse Nationale Des Monuments Historiques, 1965. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. Jacket spine edges rubbed. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. Introduction by Roger Heim and J. Millot. Interview with Georges-Henri Rivière by Michel Leiris. Four sections in the book which document the Musee de l'Homme's spectacular collections: 1) Prehistoric, text by Guy de Beauchêne; 2) Africa, text by Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delange; 3) Oceanic, text by Françoise Girard; and 4) Pre-Hispanic and Native American, text by Henri Lehmann. Bibliography. Illustrated in color 6 tipped-in plates + 84 black & white plates. 10" high X 9" wide, 232 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Athens, 1962. This is a very good hardcover copy in the publisher's original navy blue boards decorated in gilt. Completely clean inside and out. Text completely in Greek. Illustrated in black & white with 315 photgraphs and drawings of Christian and Byzantine antiquities. 10" high X 7" wide, 519. The title page has the letter 'A' indicating perhaps that it is one of at least 2 volumes, but World Cat shows only this volume was published. A note by the author or publisher at the end of this volume indicates that a volume 'B' was planned, but apparently never published. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Athens: Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, 1965. This is a very good softcover copy with only very faint cover soil and edge-wear. Very clean inside. Text in French. This copy belonged to classical art scholar B.S.Ridgway, and her signature is on the front cover. Essays and articles on the year's archeological discoveries. Illustrated in black & white with photographs, plans and fold-outs. 10" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.