Wiegand Theodore (3 results)

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. In full light brown leather with red morrocco title label, titling stamped in gilt to spine, 4to, 25pp+plates. A scarce german language ancient history title. (light shelfwear and fading to boards and extremities). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mit 9 Tafeln Und 11 Text Bildern (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Red cloth boards with black titles. Approx. 250 pp. 100 leaves of plates and additional pages of descriptive text in two languages. A large and heavy book, oversized. International and non-Continental US orders will require extra postage. In German and (we think) Arabic. Ancient Monuments of Syria, Palastine and western Arabia, 100 plates with descriptive text. Photographs from the collection of Dr. Theodor Wiegand, who collaborated in the preparation of the work. cf. Vorwort. -- WorldCat. Includes alphabetical index. Veroffentlicht auf Befehl von Ahmed Djemal Pascha. Good (Boards are heavily worn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip is heavily worn; inner hinge is cracking; binding threads are loosening on the inside; textblock is toned/scuffed/smudged; textblock is cracked; interior is clean, but toned.).…

First and only edition of a bilingual work with 143 photographs of archeology in the Middle East, compiled by the well-known German archaeologist Theodore Wiegand (1864-1936). The publication was ordered by Ahmed Djemal Pasha (or Jamal Basha, 1872-1822), the Ottoman military leader and Minister of the Navy, who also wrote the foreword. The 100 plates show a total of 143 photographs, showing archaeological excavation sites in Aleppo, Amman, Baalbek, Damascus, Gerasa, Jerusalem, Palmyra, Petra and others. Each plate is accompanied by a leaf explaining the photographs, with the text in both Arabic and German. Some of the photographs are by the Swedish photographer Lewis Larsson (1881-1958). Others were taken during the expedition by Otto Puchstein (1856-1911) to the capital of the ancient Hittite Empire, Hattusa, in present-day Turkey.Only very slightly browned, the fore-edge of the book block is very slightly foxed, with a small tear in the center of the last two leaves, very slightly affecting text and image (without loss). Otherwise in very good condition.l M. Greenhalgh, Constantinople to Córdoba: dismantling ancient architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain (2012), p. 478. Original red publisher's cloth, with the title in Arabic and German on the front board. WIth 100 plates with 143 reproductions of photographs. Pages: 10 pp., 100 ll.…