Archaeology
14 items found
Bruin, C., De [De Bruyn or Bruijn]
Reizen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indie: verrykt met driehondert kunstplaten, vertoonende de beroemste lantschappen en steden, ook de byzondere dragten, beesten, gewassen en planten, die door gevonden worden: voor al derzelver oudheden, en wel voornamentlyk heel uitvoerig, die van het heerlijke en van oudts de geheele werrelt door befaemde hof van Persepolis, by den Persianen Tchilminar genaemt. Alles door den Autheur zelf met groote naeukeurigheit na 't leven afgetekent, en nooit voor dezen in 't ligt gebragt.
Amsterdam, R. and G. Wetstein, J. Oosterwyk and H. van de Gaete, 1714. Folio (33.3 x 21.1 cm). Allegorical frontispiece (by Picart, dated 1711), title page (in red and black); engraved portrait of de Bruyn (by G. Kneller), [vi], 472, [xii] pp.; 260 numbered engraved plates (many double, folded), two large maps, and 34 large text engravings, not numbered, including portraits, views, etc. Contemporary blind ruled and embossed vellum. Spine with six raised bands, title written in ink, in a neat contemporary hand.
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Dawson, W. R.
A bibliography of works relating to mummification in Egypt with excerpts, epitomes, critical and biographical notes.
Le Caire [Cairo], Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1929. Large 4to (28.2 x 22.7 cm). Frontispiece portrait. 49, [i] pp. Original printed wrappers.
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Duppa, R.
Travels on the continent, Sicily and the Lipari Islands. Second edition.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co., 1829. Large 8vo (26.8 x 17.2 cm). x, 494, [ii] pp.; 21 fine engraved plates, and 34 text engravings. Contemporary grained half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, stipple-gilted bands; compartments with gilt vignettes and a brown morocco label with gilt title.
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Marquart, J.
Die Benin-Sammlung des Reichsmuseums für Völkerkunde in Leiden. Beschrieben und mit ausführlichen Prolegomena zur Geschichte der Handelswege und Völkerbewegungen in Nordafrika.
Leiden, E. J. Brill 1913. Large 4to (32.0 x 25.7 cm). 515 [16, ccclxvii, 132] pp.; 31 text engravings, 14 plates and two folding maps. Original burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine.
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Poortenaar, J. C.
De Boroboedoer. Zes etsen door Jan Poortenaar, Inleiding van Prof. Dr. N. J. Krom.
[Naarden, privately published, 1929]. Folio (37.9 x 28.0 cm). Two leafs of text and six fine etchings under passe-partouts, all signed and numbered in pencil, this being #161. All as issued with the original cloth portfolio with gilt title on front.
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Saulcy, [L.] F. [J. C.] de
Voyage autour de la Mer Morte et dans les terres bibliques exécuté de décembre 1850 à avril 1851. Relation de voyage; atlas. [Complete].
Paris, Gide et J. Baudry, 1852-1853. In two text volumes and one atlas volume. 8vo (24.5 x 16.0 cm [text]). 1054 pp. [399; 655]). Folio/large 4to (31.0 x 23.7 cm [atlas]). 172 pp. [4, vii, 20, i-iv, 5-19; xxvi, 96]; 15 maps on 14 sheets (one double-sized); 61 (LVII; 4) lithographed plates (several tinted). Text in near contemporary uniform half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt bands and title; Atlas in contemporary half morocco over grained, cloth with gilt title on the front board and spine. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers of the text volumes bound in.
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Squier, E. G. and E. H. Davis
Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising the results of extensive original surveys and explorations.
Washington, [DC], The Smithsonian Institution, 1848. Large 4to (30.0 x 23.3 cm). 345 [xxxix, 306] pp.; 47 engraved or tinted lithographed (tissue-guarded) plates, 207 text engravings. Later black half morocco over black linen. Gilt title on spine, gilt logo on front board. Speckled edges.
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various authors
Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Gezelschap Ex Oriente Lux. Volumes 1-29 (1938-1987).
Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1938-1987. 29 volumes in 12. Large 8vo (26.6 x 20.7 cm). Text and numerous pages, plates and text illustrations. Uniform green buckram. Front boards and spines with gilt title and gilt vignette. Last six volumes in issues, with original printed wrappers.
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Verneau, R.
L'Homme de la Barma-Grande (Baoussé-Roussé). Étude des collections anthropologiques & archéologiques réunies dans le Museum Praehistoricum fondé par le Commandeur Thomas Hanbury près de Menton.
Baoussé-Roussé, Fr. Abbo, 1908. 8vo (18.6 x 11.4 cm). 204 pp.; 52 text illustrations. Original printed wrappers.
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Vouga, D.
Préhistoire du pays de Neuchâtel, des origines aux Francs. Préface de D. Viollier. Avec 70 figures dans le texte, 34 planches hors-texte et une carte archéologique du Canton de Neuchâtel au 1:100.000.
Neuchâtel, Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles, [1943]. 4to (28.2 x 22.1 cm), 253 pp., 34 plates (one in colour), one large, folded, tinted map in rear pocket. Original blue cloth with gilt title on the spine and gilt title and vignette on the front board. Original printed wrappers (of the soft cover edition) bound in.
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Vouga, P.
La Tène. Monographie de la station publiée au nom de la commission des fouilles de la Tène (lac de Neuchâtel).
Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923. 4to (31.4 x 24.5 cm). 169 pp.; 50 plates, of which two larger, folded and one in duotone; one very large, coulored maps, and 12 text illustrations. Original decorated red cloth. Spine with gilt ornamental lines bands; front board with gilt title and embossed black vignette.
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