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1600 Years Under the Sea. in dj.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: David McKay Company, Inc., New York, 1960,:

Seller ID: 64756

FALCON-BARKER, Ted, Captain. 1600 Years Under the Sea . NY: David McKay Company, Inc., (1960). Pp. [10],(1)-225,[3], frontis., + 16 p. of plates. 8vo,blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Anderson 387. An account of the j oint Dutch-Yugoslavia-Cambridge University expedition to examine the remains of the ancient Illyrian city of Epidauros, now submerged off the (former)Yugoslavian port of Cavtat. Stain verso ffep, else vg in chipped, closed-t orn, price-clipped dj. 20.00
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5 Reports by the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in Cyprus; [3[ Provisional Verbatim Records; - and [1] Resolution.

By: United Nations Security Council

Price: $150.00

Publisher: United Nations Security Council, New York , 1968,:

Seller ID: 81486

(United Nations Security Council). [5] Report[s] by the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in Cyprus; [3[ Provisional Verbatim Record[s]; - and – [1] Resolution. New York : United Nations Security Council, 1968-1970. Various paginations. 4to, white stapled self wraps. Report S/8622, 11 June 1968 (For the period 9 March to 7 June 1968), pp. [1]-33,(1),+ folding map. Report S/8914, 4 December 1968 (For the period 8 June to 2 December1968), pp. [1]-32,+ folding map. Report S/9233, 3 June 1969 (For the perio d 3 December 1968 to 2 June 1969), pp. [1]-34,(2),+ folding map. Report S...
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A Athenes Pendant La Guerre : Journal d'un témoin (octobre 1940 - avril 1941)

By: MARCANTONATOS, L. G.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1976,:

Seller ID: 44670

MARCANTONATOS, L. G. A Athenes Pendant La Guerre : Journal d'un témoin (octobre 1940 - avril 1941). Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1976. Pp. 234. Text in French. 8vo, tan card covers. Discard stamps to title page, top and fore edge, some creasing to corners, several dampspots to rear cover, rubbed, else vg. 40.00
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A Bottle in the Shade : A Journey in the Western Peleponnese. First Edition in dustjacket.

By: LEVI, Peter.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1996, ISBN:1856195880: 1996

Seller ID: 104662

ISBN: 1856195880

LEVI, Peter. A Bottle in the Shade : A Journey in the Western Peleponnese. (London) : Sinclair-Stevenson, (1996). First Printing. Pp. (8),1-[277],(3). Decorated endpapers. 8vo, navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine.

Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL (b. May 16, 1931, Ruislip, London - d. February 1, 2000, Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire).

"Peter Levi has been obsessed by what he calls the 'captivating problems' of archaeology ever since he discovered them in childhood. His passion for antiquity goes back to his days as an undergraduate at Oxford when he haunt...
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A Don at War. Revised Edition in dustjacket

By: HUNT, David. Earl Alexander of Tunis (foreword).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Frank Cass, London, 1990, ISBN:0714633836: 1990

Seller ID: 113778

ISBN: 0714633836

HUNT, Sir David. A Don at War. With a Foreword by Field Marshall the Earl Alexander of Tunis. (London) : Frank Cass, (1990). Second Revised Edition with additional material. Pp (8),ix-xxvi,(2),11-288,(2), frontispiece portrait. Map. 8vo, grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine.

Sir David Wathen Stather Hunt KCMG, OBE (b. September 25, 1913, Durham – d. July 30, 1998, London).

An account of the author's military career during the Second World War, serving in the Mediterranean as an Intelligence Staff Officer in the field.

"When A Don at War was published i...
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Aegean : A Sea-Guide to Its Coasts and Islands. in dj.

By: DENHAM, H.M.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1970,:

Seller ID: 85598

DENHAM, H.M. The Aegean : A Sea-Guide to Its Coasts and Islands. New York :Charles Scribner's Sons, (1970). Pp. (10),xi-xxiii,(1),[1]-247,(1), + 12 p . of plates. Illustrated. 8vo, light brown cloth. Henry Mangles Denham, (b.September 9, 1897, Harrow, London - d. July 15, 1993, London) naval office r, yachtsman, writer. Toy 2851. Gift inscriptions to flyleaf, name stamp, else very good in chipped, unclipped dustjacket. 14.00
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Aegean Civilizations. no dj.

By: LUNN, Henry, Sir, ed GREENHILL, George, Sir. SANDAY, The Rev. Professor. CATON, Dr.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Epworth Press, 1929,:

Seller ID: 32884

LUNN, Henry, Sir, ed. Ægean Civilizations : Lectures by Dr. Caton; L.R. Furneaux; The late Reverend J. Gow, D.D.; Sir George Greenhill; Dr. Grundy; The Venerable S.R. James, Archdeacon of Dudley; W. Allen Jamieson, M.D.; Walter Leaf, Litt.D.; The late Professor Sanday, and others. L: The Epworth Press, 1929. Pp 257. 8vo, green cloth. From the Proceedings of the Hellenic Travellers' Club. See especially Greenhill's "Astronomy and Navigation in the Odyssey", and Sanday's "Exploration in the Levant". Spine sunned, slightly rubbed, eps stained, else vg. 30.00
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Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. Firist Printing in dustjacket

By: MYERS, J. Wilson, Eleanor Emlen MYERS, and Gerald CADOGAN (eds.) MYERS, Eleanor Emlen CADOGAN, Gerald

Price: $65.00

Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles, 1992, ISBN:0520073827:

Seller ID: 112814

MYERS, J. Wilson, Eleanor Emlen MYERS, and Gerald CADOGAN (eds.). The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. Berkeley / Los Angeles : University of CaliforniaPress, (1992). First Printing. Pp (11),[x]-xix,(5),[5]-318,(4). Illustrate d. Large 4to, black cloth boards, green cloth spine, pale green lettering to spine, colour onlay to front board, in clear plastic dustjacket lettered in yellow. "This book marks an astonishing achievement in ancient Greek archaeology. Using twin cameras suspended from a 33-foot, four-finned balloon,Wilson and Ellie Myers have been able to photograph 44 archaeological s...
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Aeschylus' Supplices : Play and Trilogy. in dj.

By: GARVIE, A.F. AESCHYLUS

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969,:

Seller ID: 73860

GARVIE, A.F. Aeschylus' Supplices : Play and Trilogy . Cambridge: at the University Press, 1969. First Printing. Pp. [i]-vii,(1),1-279,(1). 8vo, browncloth with gilt lettered black title block to spine, top edge dyed brown. A critical survey on the Supplices, traditionally dubbed as an "immature work of Aeschylus's youth" traditionally. Garvie, through the thorough examination of fragments of Aeschylus's surviving writings (Pap.Oxy 2256, fragment 3), espouses the theory that the surviving Supplices are actually part ofa trilogy, and was actually compiled later in his career, likely to ...
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Aesop in Verse

By: AESOP) WETHERELL, J.E. THOMSON, E.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto, 1926,:

Seller ID: 101456

(AESOP). WETHERELL, J.E. Aesop in Verse. Drawings by E.L. Thomson. Toronto:The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1926. First Printing. Pp. (6),vii -xvi,1-199,(1). 8vo, red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Whiteman, et al. A Bibliography of Macmillan of Canada, 300. A collection of a hundred of Aesop's fables rendered into A-B-A-C poetry. Spine nicked, Macmillan bookplate to front pastedown, else very good. 25.00
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Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Revised and Translated by John Fletcher Davies. Signed copy

By: AESCHYLUS DAVIES, John Fletcher

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Williams and Norgate / Kemink and Son, London / Utrecht , 1868,:

Seller ID: 80943

(AESCHYLUS). DAVIES, John Fletcher. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Revised andTranslated by John Fletcher Davies. London : Williams and Norgate / Utrech t : Kemink and Son, 1868. Pp [i]-xv,(1),[1]-232. 8vo, maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Top spine torn, spine and edges worn, foxing to ednpapers, name, else very good. Inscribed by the author “J.B. Pratt, Esquire, with the Author's best regards. Dec. 13th 1872.”` . 50.00
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Agamemnon of Aeschylus. With Verse Translation, Introduction and notes by Walter Headlam

By: AESCHYLUS HEADLAM, Walter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 1910,:

Seller ID: 81641

(AESCHYLUS). HEADLAM, Walter. Agamemnon of Aeschylus. With Verse Translation, Introduction and notes by Walter Headlam. Cambridge : at the University Press, 1910. Pp [i]-x,(2),[1]-265,(1). 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Wear to spine ends and corners, spine darkened, minor marking, else very good. . 35.00
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Age of the Extant Columns of the Olympieum at Athens. Reprinted from The Art Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 1, September, 1921

By: FRASER, A.D.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Art Bulletin, 1921,:

Seller ID: 88213

FRASER, A.D. The Age of the Extant Columns of the Olympieum at Athens. Reprinted from The Art Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 1, September, 1921. Pp (14) + 2 plates. 8vo, printed brown staple wrappers. Waterstain to lower spine, tear along most of spine, edges worn and browned, else good. Inscribed “With compliments of the author.” As is. 12.00
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Alexander the Great. [Volume] II. Sources and Studies. Second Edition in dustjacket

By: TARN, W. W.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979, ISBN:052122585x:

Seller ID: 114640

TARN, W. W. Alexander the Great. [Volume] II. Sources and Studies. Ca,bridge [et al] : Cambridge University Press, (1979). Second Edition. Pp (8),viixiii,(1),1-[481],(3). Double-page Map. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. "Tarn's Alexander the Great, first published in 1948, has become a classic and its importance for subsequent Alexander studies can hardly be exaggerated. Based on a lifetime's work and elegantly and persuasively written, both volumes evoked immediate admiration - and very soon sharp reaction. Little has in fact appeared on Alexander over the last thirty years tha...
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Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle

By: MAHDI, Muhsin, trans. AL-FARABI) ARISTOTLE) PLATO)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1969,:

Seller ID: 100549

(AL-FARABI). MAHDI, Muhsin, trans. Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. Translated with an introduction by Muhsin Mahdi. [Foreword by Allan Bloom]. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, (1969). Revised Edition. Pp. (4),v-xxv,(3),3-158,(8). Small 8vo, brown card covers with white titles to front and spine. A volume in the Agora Paperback Editions series. Contents: 1. The Attainment of Happiness; 2. The Philosophy of Plato, Its Parts, the Ranks of Order of Its Parts, from the Beginning to the End; 3. The Philosophy of Aristotle, the Parts of His Philosophy, the Ranks of Order of Its Par...
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All Seasons' Yachtsman.

By: HAWARD, Peter J.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Adlard Coles / George G. Harrap / John De Graff, Inc., London / New York, 1961,:

Seller ID: 100010

HAWARD, Peter J. All Seasons' Yachtsman. London : Adlard Coles in association with George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., and John De Graff, Inc., New York, (November 1961). First Printing. Pp [i]-ix,10-216,+ frontispiece + 14 pp plates. Maps. Index. 8vo, blue cloth, silver vignette to front board, silver lettering to spine. Toy 180. Contents : 1. Amateur turns professional. 2. Embayed in the Bristol Channel. 3. Raw delivery man. 4. Crews that have made itpossible. 5. With Benbow to Italy. 6. Yacht delivery voyages in bad weathe r. 7. With Misha from Ireland. 8. Wensley's wave. 9. Cohoe and a winter gal...
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American Contacts with the Eastern Churches, 1820-1870. First Edition in dustjacket

By: SHAW, P.E.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: 1937

Seller ID: 116498

SHAW, P.E. American Contacts with the Eastern Churches, 1820-1870. Chicago, Ill. : The American Society of Church History, (1937). First Edition. Pp (4),i-iii,(1),5-208. 8vo (150 x 220 mm), original dark blue cloth, with gilt lettering to spine.

Volume II in the Monographs in Church History series.

Plato Ernest Shaw, Ph.D. (b. April 2, 1883, Greece - d. August 5, 1947, New York) was Professor of Early Church History at Hartford Theological Seminary at the time of publication.

"[...] a thorough and exhaustive study of this neglected phase of...
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Image for Ancient Art from Cyprus : The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museumof Art. In Collaboration with Joan R. Mertens and Marice E. Rose. in dj.

Ancient Art from Cyprus : The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museumof Art. In Collaboration with Joan R. Mertens and Marice E. Rose. in dj.

By: KARAGEORGHIS, Vassos MERTENS, Joan R. ROSE, Marice E.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000,:

Seller ID: 41850

KARAGEORGHIS, Vassos. Ancient Art from Cyprus : The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Collaboration with Joan R. Mertens and Marice E. Rose. NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2000). First Edition. Pp305. 4to, grey cloth. "The most important collection of Cypriot antiquitie s outside Cyprus is the Cesnola Collection at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, assembled by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the first director of the museum. Cesnola was a Civil War veteran who went to Cyprus in 1866 and, in excavations there, sought to rival the finds of Heinrich Schliemann at Tr...
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Ancient Concepts in Philosophy. First Edition in dustjacket

By: JORDAN, William Issues in Ancient Philosophy series PLATO ARISTOTLE

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Routledge, London, 1990, ISBN:0415048346:

Seller ID: 73970

JORDAN, William. Ancient Concepts in Philosophy. London: Routledge, (1990).First UK Printing. Pp. [i]-xiii,(1),1-207,(3). 8vo, black cloth with silve r lettering to spine. A volume in the Issues in Ancient Philosophy series. General editor: Malcolm Schofield. Contents: 1. The Presocratic Philosophers: The First Philosophical Arguments; 2. Socrates: A Method of Doubt; 3. Plato: The Life of Philosophy; 4. Aristotle: Philosophy, Method, Being and the Good Life; 5. The Hellenistic Philosophers: Philosophy, Nature and Therapy. Very good in dustjacket. 35.00
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Ancient Crete : A Social History. From Early Times until the Roman Occupation. in dj.

By: WILLETTS, R.F

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1965,:

Seller ID: 40788

WILLETTS, R.F. Ancient Crete : A Social History. From Early Times until theRoman Occupation. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, (1965). Pp 197. 8vo, black cloth. A volume in the Studies in Social History series. Introductionto the main features of Cretan social history, dealing with the consquence s of the arrival of the Dorians in Crete, economic life, a discussion of the Cretan City-States and their government, law and legal procedure, serfs and slaves, social classes, education, religion, pirates and mercenaries. Vgin slightly rubbed dj. 30.00
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