Category: Ancient Civilization

Philistines and Hebrews: An Essay on the Biblical Narratives.

By: A Philistine [pseud. of H. Martyn Kennard].

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall, 1892. First edition. ÒFor Private Circulation.Ó

Seller ID: 9176gcs

Octavo, gilt-lettered red cloth, uncut, xii, 158 pp. Very Good; spine somewhat dull.
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The Sculpture and Sculptors of Yazilikaya.

By: Alexander, Robert L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Newark: University of Delaware Press, (1986).

Seller ID: 9106gcs

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 167 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket with light rubbing to edges. From dust jacket: Just outside the capital city of Hattusa, about one hundred miles east of the modern Turkish capital, Ankara, the Hittites of the middle and late Bronze Age created their largest surviving sanctuary. Within the group of huge, outcropping rocks known as Yazilikaya, this imperial chapel provided for the worship of numerous deities who were largely apotheoses of elements and forces of nature. In the mid-thirteenth century B.C., when Hittite great kings restruc...
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The Mummy.

By: Budge, E. A. Wallis.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Causeway Books, (1974). A Fascimile of the SEcond Edition, 1894.

Seller ID: 9302gcs

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), xxii + 404 pp. Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: Museum official tell us that mummies get more attention from museum-goers than any other ancient objects. Although many Egpytian customs and practices were to be found in other parts of Africa, mummification is unique Egypt, and the scale on which it was practiced is found nowhere else in the world. Its uniqueness is only the beginning of its fascinating story. It was practiced in Egypt for the four thousand years of the Dynastic Period. ...
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The Appian Way, A Journey.

By: Hamblin, Dora Jane and Mary Jane Grunsfeld.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York: Random House, (1974). First Edition.

Seller ID: 9158gcs

Octavo, gray cloth & cream boards (hardcover), ix, 308 pp. Fine in Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Begun in 312 B.C., it ruled continuously for almost a thousand years. It domain grew from central Rome, southward; across the Alban Hills, through central Italy, and ended at the Adriatic Sea. Its followers were many: St. Paul walked on it, and Caesar's legions; the poet Horace, the historian Livy, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hannibal, Garibaldi, Mark Twain, the Brownings, Byron, and all the millions of nameless tourists who have visited Italy over the years. The Appian Way, A ...
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The Beaker Folk: Copper Age Archaeology in Western Europe. With 118 Illustrations.

By: Harrison, Richard J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., (1980). First Edition.

Seller ID: 1598gls

Octavo, olive green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & decoration to upper cover, 176 pp. Very Good, with light soiling to covers. Illustrated. Contents: Introduction; The Dutch Model, Beakers in the Lower Rhine Valley; The Beakers in the Eastern Province (Central Europe); Britain and Ireland; France, Italy and the West Mediterranean Islands; The Iberian Peninsula and North Africa; Conclusion, Bibliography, List of Illustrations, Index.
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The Two Babylons; Or, The Papal Worship Proved to be The Worship of Nimrod and his Wife. With Sixty-One Woodcut Illustrations from Nineveh, Babylon, Egypt, Pompeii, Etc.

By: Hislop, Alexander.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2010.

Seller ID: 9543gcs

Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. tan wrappers, xxii + 330 pp. Fine.
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King Herod's Dream: Caesarea on the Sea.

By: Holum, Kenneth G.; Hohlfelder, Robert L.; Bull, Robert J.; Raban, Avner.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. First Edition, stated.

Seller ID: vas763

Large, square octavo; brown cloth (hardcover); gilt letters; 244 pp + Index. Very Good+, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Caesarea iis one of the richest archaeological sites in Israel. Located on the Mediterranean coast, this urban center was a port of great vitality that survived until the thirteenth century. REcently archaeologists both on land and underwater have discovered many of the secrets of Caesarea, enabling them to reconstruct what the city was like and the manner of life therein. This profusely illustrated volume offers the results of the archaeologists' findings, de...
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Graeco-Persian Wars: Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataeae. Based on Herodotus.

By: Kontorlis, Konstantinos P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Athens: Published by the Author, 1963.

Seller ID: 2937qs

Signed by the Author. Oblong octavo, softbound (slick, stapled, illus. blue wrappers), 32 pp. Fine.
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Chronicles of the Barbarians: Firsthand Accounts of Pillage and Conquest, from the Ancient World to the Fall of Constantinople.

By: McCullough, David Willis.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York: History Book Club, (1998).

Seller ID: 9111gcs

Octavo, black cloth & blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, map illustrated endpapers, xxiv + 392 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: The very word ÒbarbariansÓ conjures up images of savage warriors, cruel conquerors, and battles marked by ruthless carnage. This compilation of primary sources presents dozens of striking accounts of the exotic customs and fierce deeds of those considered barbarians by the writers of these eyewitness reports. The authors, mostly near-contemporaries of the events they describe, range from classical histirans like Herodotus and...
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The Neolithic of the Near East. With 164 Illustrations.

By: Mellaart, James.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1975). First Edition.

Seller ID: 9171gls

Octavo, orange boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 300 pp. Very Good+, in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Neolithic peoples of the Near East laid the foundations upon which the civilization of Western Asia and Europe were built.
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March of the Scythians: From Sargon II to the Fall of Nineveh.

By: Rea, Cam.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rea Publishing, n.d.

Seller ID: vbas5362

Octavo, softbound (slick white full-color photo. illus. wrappers), 217 pp. Near Fine. From lower cover: What the Scythians and Cimmerians brought to history is still somewhat of a mystery. Herodotus, Strabo, and many other ancient HGistorians spoke of these peoples, but were limited to some degree and in some cases added a sense of bias against them or tried to compare them with their own cultures. The Scythian and Cimmerian peoples were the exact opposite of what some desired them to be or thought. But without their comments, we would still be in the dark. Thankfully we have the Assyri...
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Augustus.

By: Southern, Pat.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London: Routledge, (1998).

Seller ID: 9131gcs

Octavo, charcoal gray cloth (hardcover), silver letters, xv + 271 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Despite his talent for self-promotion, the character of the emperor Augustus is rarely revealed. Portraits of him abound, most them contemporary, but in all these portraits he is portrayed as perpetually young and vigorous, never allowed to age even when he reached his seventies. The real person was deliberately veiled, screened from public scrutiny by an orchestrated facade that was not necessarily false, but which was tailored to circumstances and adapted ...
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The Making of Byzantium, 600 - 1025.

By: Whittow, Mark.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press, (1996).

Seller ID: 9370gcs

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xxv + 477 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: This book is an excellent, up-to-date reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Wellillustrated with original maps, it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the crisis of the seventh century, and the means whereby its embattled Byzantine successor hung on in Constantinople and Asia Minor until the Abbasid Cliphate's decline opened up new perspectives for Christian power in t...
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History of the Goths. Translated by Thomas J. Dunlap. New and Completely Revised from the second German Edition.

By: Wolfram, Herwig.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press, (1988).

Seller ID: 9550gcs

Octavo, black cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, xii, 613 pp, 7 Maps. Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket slight sunning to the edges. From dust jacket: Much studied and much misunderstood, the Goths represent all the barbarian peoples whose presence inside and outside the late Roman Empire accelerated its transformation into the eastern Byzantine world and the Western Medieval kingdoms.Herwig Wolfram corrects erroneous perspectives of the past on Gothic history and places it within its proper context, that of late Roman society and institutions. Rejecting the nati...
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Category: Ancient Civilization