Edited Edward Bacon (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; B& W photographs; Series: Life in Ancient Lands; 144 pages; Signed by Not signed; Green hardcovers with gold lettering on spine. Small smudge at lower mid front cover. Spine is straight, binding tight. No ownership marks. Pages are clean and appear unmarked. Pages are very lightly aging. Profusely illustrated. No dust jacket.

HC. B&W and color ill. (illustrator). 144pp A fascinating account of the Inca people and their rich cultural achievements over a period of six hundred years. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Very large, very heavy book, quality black cloth, ornate gilt illustration on front, gilt lettering very bright on spine, sites in Middle East shown on map inside front cover and adjacent end papers, in Americas and Europe inside back cover and adjacent end papers, 428 heavy glossy pages, double-column format for text, profusely illustrated, some in color.First U.S. Printing. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American. Large heavyset book with grey tweed boards and unclipped jacket; Book is sound, free of writing or other markings but agetoned pages especially along edges; Jacket is rubbed along edges but no big chips tears or missing pieces, slightly discoloured; 360 pages with index; Illustrated by 802 illustrations, 211 in colour, 539 photos and drawings, 52 maps and charts; HEAVY BOOK will require extra postage to most destinations.

Hardcover. 320 p. Good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and use. Retired library copy with corresponding labelling. Otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. London, Secker & Warburg, 1976, 428 pp. First Edition. Original cloth, gilt titles on spine and upercover. Upercover with gilt egiptian style decoration, and illustrated dustjacket. Magnificent book, illustrated with hundreds of images of the highest graphical quality, colour and black, printed on couche paper. Fine edition with wide margins leaves. It has not always been possible to accompany each article here printed with its original illustratión: however, the best, the most important, the most interesting are all reproduced. Cross-references to the illustrations have therefore been introduced into the text. 1842-1846: London, England; Xanthus, Asia Minor; Central America. 1847-1851: Nimroud, Assyria. 1852-1856: Nimroud, Assyria; Nineveh, Assyria; Cumae, Italy. 1857-1861: Halicarnassus, Asia Minor; Wroxeter, England; Amiens, France. 1862-1866: Pompeii, Italy. 1867-1871: Ongou Wat, Cambodia. 1872-1876: Zimbabwe, Central Africa. 1877-1881: Mycenae, Greece. 1882-1886: Thebes, Egypt. 1887-1891: Nile Delta, Egypt. 1903-1905: Karnak, Egypt. 1906-1908: Valley of the Kings, Egypt. 1909: Tunhuang, Chinese Turkestan. 1910: Phaestus, Crete. 1911: Minoan Empire, Grete. 1912: Altamira, Spain. 1913: Nasca, Perú. 1914-1918: Scynthia, Russia. 1919: El Bosque, Spain. 1920: Teotihuacan, Mexico. 1921: Thebes, Egypt. 1922: Gortyna, Crete. 1923: Tutankhamen's Tomb, Egypt. 1923-1931: Summary of discovery of Tutankhamens's Tomb. 1924: Tutankhamens's Tomb, Egypt. 1925: Ur. Babylonia. 1926: Indus Valley, India. 1927: Giza, Egypt. 1928: Indus Valley, India. 1929: Ur. Babylonia. 1930-1931: Knossos, Crete. 1932: Ajia Irini,Cyprus. 1933: Persepolis, Persia. 1934-1939: Ras Shamra, Syria. 1940-1945: Lascaux, France. 1946: Mildenhall, England. 1947-1948: Lascaux, France. 1949-1950: Karatepe, Anatolia. 1951: Straubing, Bavaria. 1952-1953: Vienne, France. 1954-1955: Pylos, Greece. 1956-1957: Gordion, Asia Minor. 1958-1959: Ephesus, Asia Minor. 1960-1961: Shanidar, Iraq. 1962-1963: Tikal, Guatemala. 1964: Chatal Huyuk, Anatolia. 1965: Peristeria, Greece. 1966: Chatal Huyuk, Anatolia. 1967-1970: Salamis, Cyprus. 1971: Editor'summary. The great archaeoligists: Biographical Notes. Index. Very good condition. Folio.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. pp.xl, 584 pages, a near fine hardback, contemporary green part leather binding with gold gilt and five raised bands to the spine, and speckled boards in between. Also the end papers with the same speckled design and top page edges are gold gilt. A superb Victorian book that has the Armorial bookplate of the Audenham House, Herts. [Gibbs Family after 1671] on the inside of the front cover. It then went to a university library - there's minimum evidence of this. We have acquired many of these English Reprints, all with matching bindings.