Isbn: 9780880298513 - Ancestral Voices: Decoding Ancient Languages (23 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st printing of this edition. Fine in a fine jacket - looks new. Jacket protected in an archival sleeve. Map end papers. Illustrated through-out.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. [ix],242 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, maps. As issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lightly cocked, otherwise text clean and tight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages.

Condition: Almost new. HELA80876 Ancestral Voices, Decoding Ancient Languages, James Norman, 1975, Barnes & Noble Books NY, 1st Edition 1992, 9.5"x6.25", b&w illustrations & pictures, 141 pages.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. Later Edition. New York: Four Wind Press. Good/Good. 1975. Later Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 242pp., Dust cover has small chip;original price intact; pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 242 pages, illustrated in b&w. "Here is the fascinating story of how the discovery and deciphering of long-forgotten systsm of wrting have uncovered the literatures and histories of numerous ancient cultures- and added more than 2000 years to recovered history." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Reprint. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector.; B&W Illustrations; 8.90 X 6.20 X 1 inches; 242 pages; "Recounts the work of leading nineteenthand twentieth-century literary archaeologists in searching out, studying, and deciphering ancient writings and thereby retrieving the histories and literatures of ancient cultures".…

New Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes: Originally published: New York : Four Winds Press, 1975. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index. Subject: Extinct languages. Inscriptions - History. Writing - History. Ancient culture. Decipher. Hieroglyphics. Rosetta Stone. Mesopotamia. Archeology. Myths. Trojan war. Genre: Bibliography, Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Condition: BUONO. New York, Barnes & Noble Books cm.15,5x23,5, pp.(10),242,(4), alcune cartine, disegni e foto in bn.nt., legatura ed.in mz.tela, titoli in oro al dorso, sopraccop.fig.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Reprint. 242pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. A few faint spots on boards, near fine in a slightly rubbed near fine dust jacket. "The fascinating story of how the discovery and deciphering of long-forgotten systems of writing have uncovered the literatures and histories of numerous ancient cultures and added more than two thousand years to recorded history.".…

New Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes: Originally published: New York : Four Winds Press, 1975. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index. Subject: Extinct languages. Inscriptions - History. Writing - History. Ancient culture. Decipher. Hieroglyphics. Rosetta Stone. Mesopotamia. Archeology. Myths. Trojan war. Genre: Bibliography, Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Dustwrapper, pp.242, bw ills. Slight shelf rubbibg to dustwrapper spine ends, and a small scratch across the dustwrapper spine just below the authors name.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Condition Notes: Previous owners' name & date to the first blank; Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (0.7 kg); pp 242; Index; Bibliography; Cover art by Jack Eckstein; Includes: Timeline; Black & white photographs; Black & white drawings; Maps; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #186336 ||.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Reprint. Reprint of book first published by Macmillan in 1975."Recounts the work of leading 19th and 20th century literary archaeologists in searching out, studying, and deciphering ancient writings and thereby retrieving the histories and literatures of ancient cultures" 242p. illus. bibiography .index. Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Barnes and Noble edition, 1st printing ; 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN 9780880298513, 0880298510 OCLC 27944066 ; LCCN 75014426 LC P901 .N6 Dewey 417.7 ; black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The invention of writing -- Deciphering lost languages -- The mysterious east -- It is scientifically insoluble -- The Rosetta Stone -- I've got it! I've got it! -- The wedge signs -- To win a wager -- Rawlinson and the Behistun rock -- Babylon revisited -- A lost civilization and a forgotten flood -- A harvest of decipherments -- New-world writing -- The Maya riddle -- Computers, toothaches, and emblems -- Pushing back Europe's horizon -- Cracking linear b -- The next decipherments ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Damp staining to most of DJ and boards.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.