Category: Archaeology

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Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Second Series - Volume VI. Meeting of May, 1900. Memoires et Comptes Rendus de la Societe royale du Canada

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Ottawa, Toronto, London, James Hope & Sons; The Copp-Clark Co.; Bernard Quaritch : 1900

Seller ID: Books005374

Condition: Good

vi, 13, xlix, ix, vi, lxxi, 182, 265, 104, 225 pp. [Sections separately paginated.] Includes 182 page section of Memoires: Literature Francaise, Histoire, Archeologie, etc. in French, Diary of Nicholas Garry, Mexican Colonies traced by language, as well as biological, geological, and economic papers. Cloth spine with paper label and stiff boards showing wear; boards loose but attached; all pages secure. Stamps of a Legislative Library and small bookplates of William Inglis Morse and Ewart G. Morse. Illustrated with plates, tables, photographs and diagrams. A hefty tome.
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Why and What at the British Museum

By: Bell, Lettice

Price: $103.36

Publisher: London, Morgan & Scott : 1910

Seller ID: Books014022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 81, [2] pages. Illustrated with line drawings. Moderate soiling to cloth; contents clean; binding sound. 7.5 x 5 inches.
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Cylinder Seals of Third-Millennium Palestine

By: Ben-Tor, Amnon

Price: $110.25

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, American Schools of Oriental Research : 1978

Seller ID: Books011265

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

121 pages. Boards bowed; top edge dusty; first few and final few leaves lightly foxed. Binding is sound.
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The Early Bronze Age Citadel and Lower City at Ai (Et-Tell), A Report of the Joint Archaeological Expedition to Ai (Et-Tell): No. 2

By: Callaway, Joseph A.

Price: $117.14

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, American Schools of Oriental Research : 1980

Seller ID: Books011119

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xiv, 295 pages. Light foxing to first few and final few leaves. Binding is sound. For overseas shipping please inquire.
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Contributions to Anthropology, 1960 Part I

By: Canadian Archaeology - Lowther, Maxwell, Forbis, Wright

Price: $34.45

Publisher: Ottawa, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources : 1962

Seller ID: Books011673

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

vi, 190 pages National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 180
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The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series Vol. 64, Part 3, 1974]

By: Clinton, Kevin

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society : 1974

Seller ID: Books010122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

143 pages. Privately bound hardcover in burgundy faux leather with titles in gilt to front and collector's name lower right front; light wear. Light foxing to endpapers and title page. No inscriptions.
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The Origins of Mycenaean Civilisation.

By: Dickinson, O.T.P.K.:

Price: $55.13

Publisher: Gteborg, Paul Astrm : 1977

Seller ID: Books008981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

134 pages, with advert leaf at rear and map tipped in at front. Privately bound hardcover in burgundy faux leather with titles in gilt to spine and collector's name lower right front; light wear. Original front card cover retained, lightly soiled. Foxing to endpapers and to map.
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Myth and Ritual. Essays on the Myth and Ritual of the Hebrews in relation to the Culture Pattern of the Ancient East

By: edited by S. H. Hooke ( by A.M. Blackman, C.J. Gadd. F.J. Hollis, S.H. Hooke, E.O. James, W.O.E Osterley, T.H. Robinson. [Signature of P. H. Nowell-Smith]

Price: $103.36

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1933

Seller ID: Books013975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xix, 204 pages. P.H. Nowell-Smith, 1946 to right first leaf. Pencil scoring and marginalia throughout - not that of Nowell-Smith. Dust jacket sunned and stained.
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The French Period in Nova Scotia, A.D. 1500 - 1758 and Present Remains. A historical, archeological and botanical survey.

By: Erskine, John S.

Price: $62.01

Publisher: Wolfville, N.S., Self published : 1975

Seller ID: Books014409

Binding: Side stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good

ii, 55 pages. A summary of the work of amateur archaeologist John Erskine, particularly in the Grand Pre and Minas Basin area of Nova Scotia. 11 x 8.5 pages.
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Image for Pompeiana. The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii. Two Volumes [1824, 1832. Marguerite Blessington's copy in Zaehnsdorf binding]

Pompeiana. The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii. Two Volumes [1824, 1832. Marguerite Blessington's copy in Zaehnsdorf binding]

By: Gell, William, and John P. Gandy

Price: $3,031.88

Publisher: London, Rodwell and Martin; Jennings and Chaplin : 1824

Seller ID: Books011113

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

Mixed set [Vol. 1: Rodwell and Martin, 1824: xxxi, 138 pages ; Vol. 2: Jennings and Chaplin, 1832: 207 pages; numerous plates in each] bound by Zaehnsdorf, with Marguerite Blessington's silk & gilt plate to front pastedown of each, and her signature to title page of volume 1. Two more recent bookplates in each. Scattered light foxing; offsetting from plates. Bindings sound; with moderate wear including a bump to top right front corner of volume 1. Please inquire for overseas shipping rates.
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Geological and Archaeological Notes on Orangia [signed]

By: Johnson, J. P.

Price: $103.36

Publisher: London, &c., Longmans, Green and Co. : 1910

Seller ID: Books008246

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

102 pages. Mild soiling to boards; lacks front free endpaper; pastedowns and rear endpaper foxed; former owner's bookplate to front pastedown. "Compliments of the Author" inscribed at head of half-title. Binding is sound and contents clean.
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The untold story of the mystery of the Oak Island treasure [Cover title: Revealed: The secret of Oak Island]

By: Johnson, Laverne

Price: $97.50

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, Self published - Benwell-Atkins Printers : 1991

Seller ID: Books015017

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

32 pages. "The definitive explanation for the mystery of the Oak Island treasure!" [front cover]. No inscriptions. 9 x 6 inches.
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Image for CRARA '77. Papers from the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Canadian Rock Art Research Associates, October 27-30, 1977, Victoria, British Columbia

CRARA '77. Papers from the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Canadian Rock Art Research Associates, October 27-30, 1977, Victoria, British Columbia

By: Lundy, Doris (ed.)

Price: $227.50

Publisher: Victoria, BC, British Columbia Provincial Museum : 1979

Seller ID: Books015018

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

[6], 380 pages. Profusely illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Light soil to rear panel; former owner's signature to title page; else unmarked, with no creasing to spine. 10.75 x 8.4 inches.
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Image for Ancient Carpenters' Tools. Illustrated and Explained Together with the Implements of the Lumberman, Joiner and Cabinet Maker, in Use in the Eighteenth Century

Ancient Carpenters' Tools. Illustrated and Explained Together with the Implements of the Lumberman, Joiner and Cabinet Maker, in Use in the Eighteenth Century

By: Mercer, Henry

Price: $617.50

Publisher: Doylestown, PA, Bucks County Historical Society : 1929

Seller ID: Books014773

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vii, [1], 328 pages. Spine darkened, and rubbed at head and foot. 1929 gift inscription to first leaf; elegant bookplate of Burl N. Osburn to front pastedown; else unmarked, in sound binding. In Woodworking Tools 1600 - 1900, Peter C. Welsh writes: "the literature of the subject, both new and old, is sparse, with interest always centering upon the object shaped by the craftsman's tool rather than upon the tool itself. Henry Mercer's Ancient Carpenters' Tools, first published in 1929, is an exception. It remains a rich source of information based primarily on the marvelous collections preserved...
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Melanson : A Large Micmac Village in Kings County, Nova Scotia

By: Nash, Ronald J.; Frances L. Stewart

Price: $172.26

Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia Museum : 1986

Seller ID: Books013668

ISBN-13: 9780660191157

Binding: Comb-back, card covers

Condition: Very Good

xii, 260 pages. Curatorial Report number 67. Clean and unmarked.
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Mi'kmaq : Economics and Evolution ; Faunal Remains from the Delorey Island Site (BjCj-9) of Nova Scotia

By: Nash, Ronald J.; Frances L. Stewart

Price: $130.92

Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia Museum : 1986

Seller ID: Books013666

ISBN-13: 9780660191157

Binding: Comb-back, card covers

Condition: Very Good

x, [1], 178 pages. Curatorial Report number 57. Former owner's name top right first leaf, else unmarked.
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Myth and Law Among the Indo-Europeans (Publications of the UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology, 1)

By: Puhvel, Jaan (edited by)

Price: $82.69

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1970

Seller ID: Books011146

ISBN-13: 9780520015876

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

x, 276pp. Dustjacket worn and damp stained to rear panel, bottom 1 1/2' lower right corner of text block has high water mark not affecting text. Previous owner's book plate to inside front cover.
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