A D Lacaille (26 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 13pp + 2 plates. 9.5 x 6 inch. Interior good and clean. Signed by Author(s).

Paper Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Offprint. 38 page offprint from Records of Bucks, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, charts and maps. Detailed report featuring flint tools.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Crisp card covers, lightly sunned around edges, with black lettering on front and spine. Sound binding. Clean pages. Contents include: I - Introduction: General Observations; The Character of the Mesolithic industries in the north-east and west borderlands of Middlesex; Origins, environment, development, spread; II - Holocene Deposits in Middlesex and London: Changing relations of land and sea; Valleys of the Lea, Colne and Thames; III Archaeology: Harefield Moor, West Middlesex - South Harefield (Dewe's pit), Dewe's Farm; Links with former stratified finds; Hackney, East London; etc. 101-150 pages. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53119071129. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Grey paper covers, sound binding, clean pages. Many black and white illustrations and diagrams. Contents include: Anniversary Address by Dr Joan Evans; The Palaeoliths of Boyn Hill, Maidenhead by A D Lacaille; The Iron Age Bowl from Rose Ash, North Devon by Lady Fox; An Anglo-Saxon Bookbinding at Fulda (Codex Bonifatianus I) by D M Wilson; Helios on the Pharos by R G Goodchild; A New Building-Inscription from the Saxon-Shore Fort at Reculver, Kent by Professor I A Richmond; Some Romano-British Sculptures from Ancaster and Wilsford, Lincolnshire by S S Frere etc. 149-292 pages. No dust jacket, as published. Stamps for Halifax Antiquarian Society and "Withdrawn" stamp on inside front cover. Pages of main text and plates (including reverse of plates) are free from stamps. Hand-written reference numbers on inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40119041060. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Grey paper covers, sound binding, clean pages. Many black and white illustrations including fold-out plans. Contents include: Palaeoliths from the lower reaches of the Bristol Avon by A D Lacaille; The excavation of a Roman barrow at Riseholme, near Lincoln by F H Thompson; A Carolingian rock crystal from the Abbey of Saint-Denis at the British Museum by Compte Blaise de Montesquiou-Ferensac; Rhodes and the origin of the bastion by B H St. J O'Neil; The plan of the Abbey Church of the Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary, West Malling, Kent by F C Elliston-Erwood; Notes; Reviews, etc. 148 pages. No dust jacket, as published. Stamps for Halifax Antiquarian Society and "Withdrawn" stamp on front end-papers and prelims. Pages of main text and plates (including reverse of plates) are free from stamps. Hand-written reference numbers on end-papers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40119031037. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Condition: Used - Good. Good paperback. First Edition. Reprint from Archaeologia, vol.XCII, pp.95-119 + plates. Some foxing; thin blue card cover discoloured. Appendix on a human skull, by Prof. Caves Used - Good. Good paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean firm brown covers with gilt lettering on the spine, sound binding, clean pages. Many black and white illustrations including fold-out plans and diagrams. Contents include: Palaeoliths from the lower reaches of the Bristol Avon by A D Lacaille; The excavation of a Roman barrow at Riseholme, near Lincoln by F H Thompson; A Carolingian rock crystal from the Abbey of Saint-Denis at the British Museum by Compte Blaise de Montesquiou-Ferensac; Rhodes and the origin of the bastion by B H St. J O'Neil; The plan of the Abbey Church of the Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary, West Malling, Kent by F C Elliston-Erwood; Anniversary Address by Sir James Mann; Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, recent excavations at a ceremonial site of the early second millenium B.C. by J F S Stone, Professor Stuart Piggott, and A St. J Booth; Flint Implements from Gloucestershire by Mrs E M Clifford, Dr. D A E Garrod and H S Gracie; A glass bowl of Dark Age date and some medieval grave-finds from Shaftesbury Abbey by D B Harden; The end of mid-Anglian paganism and the Tribal Hidage by E Thurlow Leeds; Two Saxon Urns from Ickwell Bury, Beds., and the Saxon penetration of the Eastern Midlands by J N L Myres; The use of blue slate for roofing in medieval England by E M Jope and G C Dunning; A Romano-British pottery kiln at Weston Favell, near Northampton by Brian Bunch and Philip Corder etc. 306 pages. No dust jacket, as published. Privately bound with plate for The Library of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and Withdrawn stamp. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 40118011162. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Book is a decent ex-library copy, not many library markings, original publisher's binding, a little wear at spine head, very sound, unfaded. Dust jacket is rough, very dust soiled, reinforced on reverse with brown paper, some edge tears etc . xxii + 345 pages. tables, profusely illus., bibliography, index. Approx. size 10" by 8". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Archaeology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28280.…

1942. (Small 4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 144pp. Photographs, illustrations, plans, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Spine worn at top and bottom, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, light wrinkling to cover. Contributors include R.S.G. Anderson (A Cinerary Urn from Sandmill Farm, Stranraer, Wigtownshire), V. Gordon Childe (Further Urns and Cremation Burials from Brackmont Mill, Near Leuchars, Fife), A.D. Lacaille (Scottish Micro-Burins), James Ritchie (The Lake-Dwelling or Crannog in Eadarloch, Loch Treig: Its Traditions and its Construction), Anne S. Robertson (A Roman Oven at Mumrills, Falkirk), W. Douglas Simpson (Two Donside Castles), G.P.H. Watson (A Mural Painting and a Carved Door at Traquair House, Innerleithen). Locale. (Archaeology). …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback Covers decorated with gilt tree design on front cover. Minor rubbing at corners. Gift message signed by author on front end paper. Dustwrapper is faded on spine with several tears and a small section missing at bottom of spine, now in a removeable, clearview cover. Illustrated with drawings, B & W plates and 2 fold out diagrams. xxii, 345 pages. This is a heavy book and there would be an additional charge for international postage. Wt 1.7 Kg Very Good (Good). …

Condition: Very Good. xxii, 345, map frontis, 9 b/w plates, 140 text figs, 6 tables (2 folded). . HB. Cloth, gt, light fading. Owner's name to endpaper. Vg. Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New Series, No. 6.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Published by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland C1936, this is the softback printing of A D Lacaille's THE SMALL FLINT KNIVES OF ORKNEY Reprinted from the proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Beige card covers the book is good with light staining to the card and a modicum of internal browning.…

Paperback. Condition: VG. pages 41-93. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT staples rusted.

Hardcover. 163 illustrations, 2 folding; Published for "The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum": no. 6 of its new series publications, edited by E. Ashworth Underwood; Hardback: blue cloth decorated in gilt, illustration of scots firs to top board, quarto; Stain to top board, covers unevenly faded, internally clean and tidy. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1936 (reprinted from earlier proceedings) this is the first softback printing of A.D.Lacaille's SCULPTURED ROCK;HOLY-WATER STOUP; AND SARCOPHAGUS AT LUSS. Beige card covers, the book is fair to good with some minor staining and rubbing to the card culminating in a 15mm split at the top of the spine.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Published by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1942 (reprinted from earlier proceedings)this is the softback printing of A D Lacaille's SCOTTISH MICRO-BURINS. Soft beige card covers, the book is in fair condition and is signed by the author in ink at the top of the front card cover. There is a little wear to the spine culminating in a 15 mm split at the top. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Sm 4to. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine with gilt decorated cover. In unclipped dust jacket with small nicks, wear, to spine ends and tips, rubs to folds, patchy darkening. Map frontis. xxii, 345. Numerous illustrations, tables, etc. Signs of use, but overall a bright, clean copy.…

Condition: good. no dustjacket. 8vo pp.180-192, previous owners embossed stamp on title page. Reprinted from the proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Vol. LXXII session 1937-38. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. LACAILLE, A. D. The Stone Age in Scotland Oxford, Uni. Press for The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 1954. 4to. xxii, 345 p., with 9 plates, 140 figures, 6 tables, and map of Scotland at the frontispiece. Hardback, blue buckram gilt, title to spine and decoration stamped on front cover. Original printed paper dust jacket showing drawings of Scots firs in Glenfalloch. Just a few light marks to jacket and front cover. A fine copy.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hardbacks, 3 volume set. 32cm x 26.5cm. xiv, 399pp; viii, 116 plates + plan in pocket at rear; xiii, 182pp + 87 plates + 2 folding plans in pocket at rear. Bindings a little marked. Contents clean. A very pleasing set. A very heavy set (5.6kg), additional postage will be required for orders outside the UK. (p13).…

London etc., Oxford University Press, 1954, large in-8°, XXII+345 pp, 9 bw plates h.t., 140 bw ills, ed. Gilt cloth, dustwrapper. Nice copy.

London, Oxford University Press, 1949. 2 volumes large in-4°, xlv,399pp, with 123 textfigures. (=text-volume) ; 116 plates (=plates-volume), bound in publisher's cloth with red lettering on cover, with printed dustwrapper. The wrappers are damaged and soiled, with some loss of paper. The bindings and the inside are very clean ( no ex-library copy). [archaeology;north africa;sudan]. A third volume was published (not present here).…

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1744). 4to. Without wrappers as extracted from "Histoire de L'Academie Royale des Sciences", L'Annee 1744, pp. 191-238 and 2 folded engraved plates. First edition. "The Abbé La Caille was an immensssely industrious observational astronomer whose career was climaxed by a scintific expedition to Cape of Good Hope" his studies here made him "the father of of southern astronomy", and his names for fourteen southern constellations remain as his most enduring monumnt." His results in measuring the parallax of the moon, especially from Cape of Good Hope - provided an exact computation of the earth-moon distance - indicating a distance to the moon of about 60 times the earth's radius.…

Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1757. 8vo. Contemp. full calf, raised bands, gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Small paperlabels pasted on spine. Stamps on front free endpapers.VIII,192 pp. and 5 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. Otherwise fine. Second edition. - Partington I, 1337. …

Paris, Guerin & Delatour, 1756. 8vo. Contemp. full calf, raised bands, gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Small paperlabels pasted on spine. IV,204 pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. A few scattered brownspots. Second edition. - Partington I, 1337.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1954 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 406 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 406.…