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London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Very good. 189 pages. Fifty-one plates, many are gate-folds. Contents include: "Christian Antiquities of Tripolitania." "The Temple of the Imperial City of Luxor," "Roof-bosses in St. George's Chapel, Windsor," Some Seventeenth-century Houses in Great Yarmouth." Index. Volume 95 (Second Series, Vol. 45).

North Sydney: The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1972. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 118 pages. 25 x 24.5 cm. Illustrated mostly with color plates. Chronological Table. Maps. General Bibliography. Index.

Cape Town: Univ. of Cape Town Libraries, 1969. Second edition. Paperback. A list ofpublished material on the Earlier Stone Age of South Africa, including South Africa, South West Africa, the Protectorates, Southern and Northern Rhodesia."All material prior to 1900 has been omitted. Orig. green wrappers. Fine.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 253 pp. 132 text figures and forty-five plates with many of the former large fold-outs. Bibliographies. Index. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XXXIV. The author describes the defences and buildings of the outer bailey of the Norman castle erected by William Mauduit for William the Conqueror around 1086.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in fine pictorial dust wrapper. 584 pages. 31 x 25 cm. 175 artifacts are illustrated and described in detail. Essays. Concordance. Index.

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth decorated and lettered in silver. Near fine. 518 pages. 412 color photographs. List of Authors. Bibliography and Index.

Bangkok: Princess Chumbhotof Nagara Svarga, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth rubbed. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 24 pages in text. Thirty-three plates, some in color, and a plan to scale of the Lacquer Pavilion at Suan Pakkad Palace. The story of the restoration of the Lacquer Pavillion which may date from the reign of King Narai [1656-1688], and its removal to the Suan Pakkad Palace. Backstrip foot worn.

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth embossed in gilt and blind. Very good. 2 vols. 326 & 373 pages. 24 x 15 cm, two tinted lithographed frontispieces, five folding maps and plans, and a host of plates and woodcuts in the text. Index. BLACKMER 968. The author, English archaeologist whose excavations greatly increased knowledge of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, and also made him quite wealthy. Binding firm and fresh with gilt front cover decoration bright. Text and maps generally clean, a few plates with toning at margins, rubbing to backstrip extremities. Host of publisher adverts end of Vol. I.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good. 328 pages. 28 1/2 x 22 cm. Thirty-three color plates and a multitude of photographs, drawings, and plans to scale. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. One of the greatest cities in medieval Iran was Nishapur. It reached the height of its prosperity under the Samanids in the tenth century.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. First edition. Orig. crimson cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 206 pages. 34 x 26 cm. 286 illustrations printed on high gloss stock and 226 in full color and one map. Chronology. Index.

University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Published without a dust wrapper. Orig. brown cloth. Fine. 81 pages in text. 28 x 22 cm, Eighty-eight illustrations. Bibliography. Index. The research attempts to determinethe position of the Sarvistan monuments in the history of Persian architecture, and the author raises some doubts as to the Sasanian origin of the buildings.

Cleveland: J.H. Jansen, 1925. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated brown boards and cloth spine with cloth ties. Very good. 12 pages in text. 29 x 23 cm. Full-page plates drawn on stone by B. Ferrey with descriptive letter-press, by E.J. Willson. This was the last work he published. Pugin was draughtsman and drawing-master rather than an architect. He was the first to provide accurate drawings for medieval architecture. Limited edition copy 78 of 700. Ex-library, no exterior marking, plates carry stamps.

New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1976. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth chipped at spine foot. Very good. 410 pages. Thirty-six black and white plates and fifty text figures, many are drawings to scale. Bibliography. Index. An in depth study of stone circles which flourished betweenthe middle of the Neolithic and Late Bronze Age from approximately 2500 to 1000 BC.

Ljubljana: Narodni Muzej Slovenije, 2002. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers, and wrapper portfolio housing plates. Fine. 3 vols. 303, 139 pages and 76 folio Grave plans. 33 x 24 cm. 101 plates (Cat. I), and a host of illustrations, some in color: charts, plans, drawings, maps (Cat.II). Plan of the Graves presents 75 sheets representing the 75 quadrants of the site and a fold-out plan of the entire site. Archaeological investigation of Iron Age grave site in Slovenia, in the Tolman basin region at the confluence of the Soca and Tolminka Rivers. Text in English and Croatian.

Geneva: Skira, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vermillion cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper lacking small portion at front cover head. 229 pages. Small folio, 145 illustrations, eighty-five tipped-in color plates. Index of Names and Places.