Athens: Centre for Neohellenic Research, 1991. First Edition. Trade paperback. Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Roads of Dialogue - Maritime Route Expedition. Seminar Papers - Athens, Greece, 25-28 October 1990. Numerous textual illustrations, including... More about CULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE ORIENT AND THE GREEK WORLD
London: Hutchinson University Library, 1969. Hardcover. Reprint. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. More about THE GREEK TYRANTS
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "...highlights one of the most important and creative periods in the history of art: a time marked by the appearance of the city states... More about ART OF THE FIRST CITIES: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. "...examines the Nereids, mythical goddesses of the sea, who occupied an important role in Greek literature, art, and religion. The author identifies the iconographical... More about DIVINE ESCORTS: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. A tribute to America’s preeminent scholar of Hittite language and culture, Professor Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The thirty-four..... More about HITTITE STUDIES IN HONOR OF HARRY A. HOFFNER JR. ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY
Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Features 18 papers, including "Troilos Pursued by Achilles" by Alexander Cambitoglou, "Heads on Platters" by Axel Seeberg, and "Masks on Apulian Red-Figured Vases" by A.D. Trendall. Frontispiece... More about STUDIES IN HONOUR OF T.B.L. WEBSTER, Volume Two
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980. Hardcover. 288 p. With 319 illustrations. New and enlarged edition. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Tiny ink mark to the front flyleaf, with some mild wear... More about THE GREEKS OVERSEAS: Their Early Colonies and Trade
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. An authoritative guide to the burgeoning Etruscan scholarship. More than 300 photographs and maps. Tall octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy... More about ETRUSCAN Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Octavo. Mild bump to the top corner of the front board; else a.... More about THE OLDEST CUISINE IN THE WORLD: Cooking in Mesopotamia
Salem, New Hampshire: The Ayer Company, 1981. Hardcover. A volume in the Arno Press collection Monographs in Classical Studies. Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with black titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More about THE ATTIC FESTIVALS OF DEMETER AND THEIR RELATION TO THE AGRICULTURAL YEAR
Chicago: Argonaut Inc., Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1930 first edition, with a new preface. 16 plates, with 2 folding maps. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A very good copy. More about MINOANS, PHILISTINES, AND GREEKS, B.C. 1400-900
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Trade paperback. A volume in the Interpreting the Past series. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy. More about NEAR EASTERN SEALS
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1911 first edition. "Covering manifestations of Byzantine style throughout civilized Europe and the Near East from the 4th to the 15th century, Mr. Dalton's work... More about BYZANTINE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Later printing. "This book assembles for the first time the archaeological data for the whole of Greece and the Aegean - and for certain adjacent areas - during the... More about THE LAST MYCENAEANS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS: An Archaeological Survey, c.1200 - c.1000 B.C
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. "Plato, Aristophanes, and the creators of the 'Orphic' gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the... More about MYTHS OF THE UNDERWORLD JOURNEY: Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets
New York: West Side Graphics, 2016. Trade paperback. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy. More about FROM CANAANITES TO ISRAELITES: The Journey of Ancient Near East History from Realism to Idealism
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. The oldest complete play in the world, The Triumph of Horus was engraved on the walls of the Temple of Edfu in Upper... More about THE TRIUMPH OF HORUS: An Ancient Egyptian Sacred Drama
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally begun in collaboration with Professor W. L. Moran, this work collects all of the extant cuneiform tablets inscribed with lists of temples. The temple lists are... More about HOUSE MOST HIGH: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, et al, 1813. Hardcover. Twelve volumes. Frontispiece portrait, with three folding maps. New Edition. First published in three installments between 1776 and 1788, Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates... More about THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt... More about THE INVENTION OF CUNEIFORM: Writing in Sumer
London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Akhenaten's Sed-festival at Karnak, Jocelyn Gohary makes a study of Akhenaten's celebration of the heb-sed or Sed-festival, an ancient Egyptian religious festival that... More about AKHENATEN'S SED-FESTIVAL AT KARNAK
Stockholm: Paul Astroms Forlag, 1988. First Edition. Wraps. "Twenty-eight papers on the phenomena of early Greek cult practice, concentrating on the Late Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods, read at an international conference in Athens; the... More about EARLY GREEK CULT PRACTICE: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium at the Swedish...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, with the publisher's embossed stamp to the title page. The first book in English on the subject. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt... More about GREEK DIVINATION: A Study of Its Methods and Principles
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original red cloth binding, with black titles. Mild edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. More about GENDER AND AGING IN MESOPOTAMIA: The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature
Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund, 4. Quarto. Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More about SUMERIAN LITERARY FRAGMENTS FROM NIPPUR