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M�Dchen, Frauen, G�Ttinnen Lakonische Weibliche Bronzestatuetten Und St�Tzfiguren Archaischer Zeit
by C M Stibbe
Etruscan Tomb-Groups Ancient Pottery and Bronzes In Chicago's Field Muaeum Of Natural History
by De Puma Richard Daniel
Ancient Egyptian Art In the Brooklyn Museum
by Richard a Fazzini; Robert S Bianchi; James F Romano; Donald B Spanel
Ancient & Classical Art Books & Ephemera
Scavi di Ostia. VII. I Capitelli
296 pp. text edited by Patrizio Pensabene describing over seven hundred column capitals, including discussions about the various techniques employed in their creation, materials, motifs, etc., extensive scholarly notes, indices, hundreds of photographic illustrations and line drawing recreations on 107 plates. Large 4to. Cloth. Rome (Libreria dello Stato) 1973. One of 750 copies.
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NZ$893.66
Arts Antiques de l'Asie Occidentale á Partir du IVe Millenaire avant J.C. et les Origines des Motifs de la Céramique Islamique Archaique
by Rozantal, A., et al
394 pp. scholarly study of ancient Middle Eastern artworks, incl. Sumerian, Cappadocian, Persian and Babylonian items, and their influence on later motifs in Islamic pottery, contributions by numerous noted scholars, ext. notes, bibliography, list, map, 524 plates from drawings after objects and decorative motifs, 30 plates from photographs. 4to. New cloth. Nice (Mathieu) 1948.
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NZ$1,617.09
三希堂法帖, 二 or San xi tang fa tie, Er
by Unknown
Beijing: China Bookstore Publishing House, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Volume 2 of a four volume set all sharing the ISBN 7805681899. Text in Chinese, comprised of "running script, regular script and cursive script documents from 135 artists, as well as more than 200 inscriptions and postscripts, and more than 1,600 seals." (OCLC WorldCat). Heavy oversized hardcover in dustjacket, a very good copy. This book is beautifully bound in heavy red boards with gilt spine lettering and device. The...
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NZ$76.60
Archaologischer Anzeiger
by Brommer, Frank
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.
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NZ$29.79
Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou, Recueïl des Plus Beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine Qui Existent Encore. Dessinés par Monsieur Barbault Peintre Ancien Pensionnaire du Roy a Rome, et Gravés en 128 Planches avec Leur Explication
by Barbault, Jean
VIII, 90 pp. text concerning the ruins, monuments, reliefs and sculptures of ancient Rome, including 128 engravings, several depicting architectural plans, on 73 numbered plates executed by Dominico Montagu after drawings by Barbault, a former student and later rival of Piranesi. Some extremely minor scattered soiling or toning. Large folio. Full-leather, marbled, hand-tooled and gilt binding; spine with six raised bands. Some old worm damage along spine, minor rubbing and abrasions, especially to...
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NZ$25,533.00
Ancient Andean Life
by Hewett, Edgar L
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good. First Edition stated; 8vo, navy cloth; vg- (shelfworn; bump and dent to top edge of rear board; spine ends and corners bumped, crimped, and rubbed; crease to top third of spine; spot on top edge; two faint red marks and two scratches on bottom edge; owner's name and address written on front pastedown with notation book was 'a birthday gift from Dr. Hewett'; edges, eps, and pages toned) in good dj...
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NZ$42.56
Les portraits romains. Texte & Planches (Bothmer copies)
by Poulsen, Vagn
Copenhaguen, : Ny Carlsberg Glyptotheque, 1974. This is a very good two volume softcover set with just light wear. Slight crease to bottom right corner covers, spines not creased. The plate volume page-edges are lightly spotted. Otherwise both volumes very clean. Text in FRENCH. These volumes belonged to the scholar Bernard von Bothmer, and he signed his name in ink on the front endpaper of both volumes. Otherwise clean and free of marks, (not annotated). Illustrated in black & white with...
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NZ$127.66
Das Mithra-Heiligtum von Königshofen bei Strassburg
by Forrer, Robert
133 pp. annotated scholarly report summarizing archeological excavations at the temple of Mithras near Lauda-Königshofen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with detailed maps of the site, plans and elevations of the temple, photographs of statuary, reliefs, altarpieces and other artifacts, and transcriptions of wall texts, altogether including 85 text illustrations and 28 plates. A few light pencil annotations to page margins. Small 4to. Boards with original wrpps. affixed, front cover bearing previous...
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NZ$765.99
Attische Feste
by Deubner, Ludwig
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.
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NZ$85.11
Reves Hittites: Contribution A une Histoire Et une Anthropologie Du Reve En Anatolie Ancienne
by Mouton, Alice
Leiden/Boston : Brill, 2007. This is a fine hardcover copy in as new condition. Completely clean inside and out. Binding firm. Appears unread. Text in French. This is volume 28 in the series published by Brill on 'Culture & History of the Ancient Near East'. This volume deals with the ancient Anatolian textual evidence on dreams. 10" high X 6" wide, 344 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Fine.
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NZ$246.82
Egyptian Stone Vessels. Khian Through Tuthmosis IV
by Lilyquist, Christine
New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1995. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear whatsoever. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding tight. Feels unused. This work "seeks to document shapes, materials, and inscriptions for stone vessels either from royal tombs or inscribed with royal names from Dynasty 15 to mid-Dynasty 18". Illustrated in black & white with photographs, sections and details. Various appendices. Chronology. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 123...
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NZ$29.79
Mycenaean Pottery: An Introduction
by Mountjoy, P. A
Oxford University School Of Archaeology,, 2001. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Illustrated in black & white with photographs and line drawings. Bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide, 215 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking. . Later Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good.
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NZ$161.71
The Development of Attic Black-Figure
by Beazley, J. D
Berkeley, CA,: University of California Press,, 1951. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket some edge wear. Chipping to the extremities. Completely clean, but pages uniformly toned a bit. Illustrated with 49 black & white plates. 10" high X 7" wide, 127 text pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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NZ$85.11
Collection de Figurines en Argile: Oeuvres premieres de l'Art Gaulois avec les Noms des Ceramistes qui Les ont Executees: Recueillies, Dessinées & Décrites
by Tudot, Edmond
88, (16) pp. text on the sources, use, periods and types of ancient Gallic ceramic sculpture, including extensive description of the plates, text illustrations, 75 plates of fine tinted lithographs from drawings by Tudot of the varieties of sculptures, molds and inscriptions on tablets. 4to. 1/2 leather, edges worn. Paris (C. Rollin) 1860.
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NZ$1,489.42
Arte Clasico
by Rodenwaldt,Gerhart
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...
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I. Erster Bericht über die vom Alterthumsverein Kempten (a. V.) vorgenommenen Ausgrabungen Römischer Baureste auf dem Lindenberge bie Kempten. II. Zweiter Bericht über die vom Allgäuer Alterthumsverein (a. V.) in Kempten vorgenommenen Ausgrabungen Römischer Baureste auf dem Lindenberge bei Kempten
by Ullrich, August
2 vols. bound in 1, 45, 17 pp. text discussing Roman remains excavated in Kempten, extensive scholarly notes, 31 plates, some photo lithographs (some color), 4 fold-out showing drawings of finds, floor plans and site plans. Small ink notes on title-page. Sm. 4to. 1/2 cloth and boards, edges worn. Kempten (Ulterhumsvereins) 1888.
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NZ$1,106.43
A MANUAL OF EGYPTIAN POTTERY. Volume 1: Fayum A-Lower Egyptian Culture
by Wodzinska, Anna
Boston, MA: AERA Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Softcover. Near fine. Softcover. Quarto. Spiral-bound with tabbed sections. 200pp.Text, illustrated with line drawings plus 8 color plates at rear. One bumped corner.
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NZ$59.58
Die Münzbildnisse von Maximinus bis Carinus
by Delbrueck, Richard
X, 240 pp. scholarly work concerning portraits of emperors on Roman currency, including bibliography, illustrated with images of hundreds of coins on 32 plates. 4to. Red cloth with embossed text on front board. Berlin (Gebr. Mann) 1940. (Archäologisches Institut des Deutschen Reiches: Das Römische Herrscherbild, III. Abteilungen, Band. 2). This work is focused primarily on the Gordian dynasty, from 235 to 285 AD, covering the emperors Maximinus, Gordian I, Gordian II, Pupienus, Balbinus, Gordian II,...
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NZ$2,297.97
A LOST ART REDISCOVERED
by Gerstel, Sharon E. J. and Julie A. Lauffenburger [edited by ]
Baltimore: The Walters art Museum, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Fine. First edition. Paperback. 11'' x 8 1/2''. 318pp. with index. A fully illustrated catalogue of all known tiles produced in the region of Constantinople.
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NZ$144.69
![Materialy po arkheologii khristianskago Egipta. Matériaux pour servir àl'archéologie de l'Egypte chrétienne [Materials on the archaeology of Christian Egypt]. One text volume and one volume of photographic plates, housed in printed slipcase (all published)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/706/195/1550195706.0.b.jpg)
Materialy po arkheologii khristianskago Egipta. Matériaux pour servir àl'archéologie de l'Egypte chrétienne [Materials on the archaeology of Christian Egypt]. One text volume and one volume of photographic plates, housed in printed slipcase (all published)
by Bok, V[ladimir] G[eorgievich]
St. Petersburg: self-published (Tip. E. Thiele), 1901. Oblong folios (27 × 36.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [8], 94 pp. With one hundred illustrations in the text, including plans, drawings, and mostly photographs. With thirty-three leaves of photographic plates in a separate printed slipcase. Wrappers of text volume dust-soiled; light soil to corners of first two leaves; the slipcase worn; first plate toned; else about very good. Vladimir Georgievich Bok (1850-1899) was a Russian archaeologist and...
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NZ$2,553.30
CATALOGUE OF TERRACOTTAS, Cypriote, Greek, Etrusco-Italian and Roman
by Breitenstein, Niels
Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1941. Portfolio. Very good. Portfolio. Portfolio. Soft cover book 106pp. text. 135 loose plates illustrating 972 pieces in black & white. Descriptive catalogue is toned on edges; plates are quite nice. Front panel of folding portfolio "hanging on by a thread". Covers darkened; ties present but worn. Plates fine; Book very good; Folding portfolio, poor.
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NZ$255.33
Indian Art from Mexico to Peru
by Boglar, Lajos & Tamas Kovacs
Budapest: Corvina Kiado, 1983. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st US, 4to, black cloth, vg (light bumping to spine tail and bottom corners; white marks on very top edges of boards) in vg dj (light wear and bumping to edges). 4to, 26 pp. of text (English) + 40 color & 211 b&w plates.
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NZ$59.58
THE IMAGE OF THE BLACK IN WESTERN ART
by Bindman, David; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editors)
London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. New Edition. Quarto. 11.25 x 10.25" 391pp. Incl. index. Profusely illustrated in color.
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NZ$144.69
Los Tesoros de los Senores de Malagana
Museo del Oro, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. Black pictorial wraps. Text in Spanish with beautiful color plates and b/w illustrations. Vg (covers rubbed and edgeworn; light bumping to corners and spine tail; crease to top corner of front cover, affects first few pages). 95pp. incl. bibliography.
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NZ$85.11
Lietuviu Liaudies Menas
by Grigiene, J.and A. Berman
Vilnius, 1958. This is a very good hardcover copy in gray cloth boards printed in black with only light wear. No marks to the outside, just a trace of wear to spine tips and corners. Completely clean inside. Text in Russian and Lithuanian. This is one of a series of several volumes produced by these two editors on old Russian artifacts and folk art. This volume is on old Lithuanian jewellery and ironwork. The works are from the 2nd through the 15th centuries. 601 pieces illustrated in black & white...
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NZ$255.33
