Thompson Caton (26 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol 80, No 5, Nov, 1932, pp. 369-409+ 8 Photo PLts & 2 Lge Color FoldOut Maps (9.5 x 20 & 18 x 14 Inches), Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last page in facsimile else VG, 1st ed (Maps are Nice & Bright).

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 41 pages, and 8 plates and 2 hand coloured folding maps. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 15 x 24 cms. Category: Royal Geographical Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 30 pages, 3 plates, 1 fold-out plate, 8 figures. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: Quarto (26 x 20 cms). Category: Prehistoric Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 18 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: Quarto (25 x 19 cms). Category: Antiquity; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages and 8 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: Quarto (25 x 19 cms). Category: Antiquity; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Großformat, Original-Pappband. XV, 184, LXXXI Seiten mit zahlreichen s/w Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Exlibris auf den ersten Seiten, ansonsten textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. // Original hardcover. Clean book in good condition. Exlibris and name entry on the first pages, otherwise text-clean. Book from a non smoking environment. Dieses Exemplar stammt aus der Bibliothek von Walter W. Müller, Professor für Semitistik an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Sprache: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Size: 4to <12". xvi + 184pp + 81 plates. Binding firm, spine slightly creased and faded. Edges browned slightly. Multiple copies available this title. Covers slightly worn. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Archaeology; Yemen; Ancient (BC); Religion & Theology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 43472.

Condition: VG. NY 1939 first edition. American Geographical Society. sm4to wraps. Stark article pp.1-17 with map and 2 glossy pages of photo illustrations. The Caton-Thompson article is on pp. 18-38 with 6 glossy pages with bw photo illustrations and 3 text maps/diagrams. Several other articles on other topics in issue as well. VG no owner marks. almost no wear.

Paper Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquities, No X111. A British archaeological expedition to South Arabia, comprising the author, Freya Stark and Elinor Gardiner. 191pp plus 81 Plates and folding charts and maps. Original paper boards a bit spotted and spine is sunned with minor rubbing at ends. Contents tight and clean.

Hardcover. 191 p. Good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and use. Retired library copy with corresponding labelling. Spine slightly faded. Book smells musty. Otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library rebound hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1944 by The Society of Antiquaries, London. Very minor foxing to front endpapers otherwise a good, clean copy. 77 of the 81 plates all intact & free from markings. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 6A*.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Octavo. 25×16cm; (300)pp. Red cloth with gilt title on spine, very light general wear. Binding square and tight. Light foxing to edges. Clean within. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. B/w plates and figures. A 'Very Good' copy. Uncommon.

Softcover. S. 244-303 Good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and wear. Spine with reading creases and tears. Book edges slightly rubbed. Otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover bound in thick card covers, paper covered spine creased and with some small chips missing at head and foot, small closed tears to hinges internally repaired, some light shelfwear to edges and boards but otherwise in Very Good condition commensurate with age. First edition, pp xv, 191, numerous b&w plates and illustrations, two foling plans to rear, appendix, epigraphy, index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL THICK CARD COVERS, NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS & FOLDING PLATES. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 11 X 9 INCHES. SOME CREASES & RUBBING TO SPINE WITH SOME MINOR LOSS TO PAPER, BOARDS A LITTLE BROWNED & SPOTTED, TITLE PAGE FOXED, SOME LIGHT BROWNING TO PAGE MARGINS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First. edition. Orig. light-blue cloth. Quarto, 300 pp. 73 plates, some folding. Cloth unevenly sun-faded, cloth at right edge of front board a little puckered, very good to near fine.

First edition. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, No. XIII. Quarto. pp xvi, 191. 81 plates including 2 folding maps. Five of the photographs and six of the plans are by Freya Stark who the author joined when she returned to Hadhramaut in 1936. Original boards. Small graze to front cover obscuring the first five letters of Burlington House in the publisher's address. Another graze to bottom corner of rear cover. Tail of spine slightly scuffed. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good(+). Hardcover folio in beige DJ. xx, 213 pages, b/w illustrations, 128 plates, folded maps, tables, diagrams, 32 cm. "With a physiographic introduction by E.W. Gardner"-front cover. Acheulio, Levalloisian, Khargan, Aterian, Bedouin, Refuf Pass, Abu Sighawal Pass, Gebel Umm-el-Ghenneiem, Bulaq Pass, Matana Pass **A large, heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply for international & expedited orders. Please inquire.**. Moderate rubbing and chipping to DJ corners, edges, head and foot of spine. Mild spotting and discoloration to DJ covers. DJ in archival mylar. Top outer corners of boards gently bumped. Very light cracks to hinge at end papers. Very mild spotting to end papers. Else book is very good(+) in very good(-) DJ.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Elcock, Howard; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Pears, Charles; Holloway, W.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, Francis G.; Soper, G.; De Walton, John; Wigfull, W.E.; Prater, E.; Pears, Charles; Holloway, W.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, Francis G.; Soper, G. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa, and operations of seekers of her sunken treasure of precious metals and stones - with photos; The Terror of the Terai - the story of one of the most remarkable elephant hunts on record - a twelve days' chase after a man-killing 'rogue'; Photo of a Venetian funeral; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - the humourous travels of a huband and wife with their donkey (part 4); Across the Pacific in a Chinese Junk - Captain George Ward and his voyage from Amoy, China to Victoria, British Columbia - article with photos, one of which includes Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford aboard the vessel; Forgotten - the terrible experience of a young surveyor off the coast of Trinidad; The Witching of the M'Bumbo - a tale of native witchcraft and trial by ordeal in Nigeria; Our Unlucky Day - an account of a series of disasters which struck a steamer, the S.S. Z_____ in the Gulf of Mexico; The Village of the Greeks - visit to a tiny hamlet in the Sicilian Mountains - with photos; The Gower Affair - a story of black magic at Porto Lokkoh on the West Coast of Africa. Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy.

Society of Antiquaries, London, 1944. First edition. Small in-4, xv & 191 pages, 81 plates. Contemporary hardcover, a fine copy. Language: English. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Mesopotamia.

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original photographic card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains 66 pp with small monochrome archive photographs throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'For Rosemary and Tony - With all good wishes from Ann, December 2001'. SIGNED Christmas Card with message 'From Ann Hamlin', and related letter not signed by the author but by Mary Sewell. Member of the P.B.F.A. ARCHAEOLOGY.

Oxford, 1944. 4to. Orig. boards. XV,184 pp. and 81 plates, some folded, some in colour.

Oxford, Printed at the University Press by John Johnson for The Society of Antiquaries, 1944. 4to. Original printed boards; pp. xv, 191; 81 plates showing numerous photographic images of the area, the excavations, finds, plans, etc., including some folding, one folding table; toning to the margins of the boards, internally very clean, a very good copy.First edition, no. 13 of the Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Caton-Thompson was drawn to the Hadhramaut by her interest in the question of Arab influence in South-East Africa. She joined Freya Stark (returning to the area after the visits described in her The Southern Gates of Arabia), but Stark remained behind, beset by illness, when Caton-Thompson and her companion Elinor Gardner moved on to Hureidha. The present volume records the successful results of this important and early archaeological expedition, one of few in an area that "then was archaeologically still terra incognita" (Preface).'Caton-Thompson's last excavations, in 1937, were the only ones outside Africa apart from some fieldwork in Malta in her student days. These were at al-Huraydah in the Hadhramaut, southern Arabia, where she excavated the Moon Temple and tombs of the fifth and fourth centuries bc. Carried out in a region then rarely visited by Western, let alone female, travellers, they were the first scientific excavations in southern Arabia. Again she was accompanied by Elinor Gardner. A third, less compatible, member of the party was the writer and traveller Freya Stark. The Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha, Hadramaut appeared in 1944' (ODNB). Some of the plates are by Freya Stark, who accompanied Thompson on this expedition.

No. XIII of the Reports of the Research Committee Society of Antiquaries of London. 81 plates (the majority photographic, with multiple images). 4to. Fine original printed boards. xv, 191pp. Oxford, Thompson set out for southern Arabia with Freya Stark and Elinor Gardner in 1937, arriving in Aden in October, at a time when the area was "archaeologically still terra incognita". It is interesting to note that several of the plates illustrating this work are by Freya Stark herself.

First appearance in print of the text of a report by the distinguished archaeologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888-1985) on her 1937-8 expedition to the Hadhramaut in the company of Freya Stark and Elinor Gardner. The expedition, the subject of Stark's A Winter in Arabia, unearthed the first evidence of pre-Islamic material culture in the region - a sign "of all that needs to be done in those strange, deeply sunk, unending valleys" (p. 91). In the mid-1930s, Caton-Thompson, triumphant after becoming the first female recipient of the Rivers Memorial Medal for anthropology, developed an interest in early contacts between Africa and southern Arabia. Around the same time, she was introduced to Stark at a meeting arranged by the orientalist Rhuvon Guest, during which Stark discussed her intention to return to the Hadhramaut. While they did not see eye to eye, "Stark may have thought that an expedition in the company of a distinguished archaeologist would enhance her own reputation as a scientific explorer" (Drower, p. 369). Joined by Gardner, they set off for Aden in October 1937 and departed Makalla on 13 November. Over the next five months, Caton-Thompson and Gardner worked a site at Hureidha in the Wadi 'Amd, with Stark pursuing her own projects. The present lecture surveys the temples, graves, inscriptions and objects excavated by Caton-Thompson and her team, supported by an illustration of the impressions of four seals she found in ancient tombs. Not in Macro. Margaret S. Drower, "Gertrude Caton-Thompson, 1888-1985", in Getzel M. Cohen and Martha Sharp Joukowsky (eds.), Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists, 2004, pp. 351-379. Large octavo, pp. 79-92 within the journal. With half-tone plate. Original red card wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in black. Spine and wrappers lightly toned and faded, slightly cocked, spotting to top edge, text clean. A near-fine copy.