Ancient Monuments, Signed (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "First Edition" stated with no other printing indication - 1st, Inscribed to a former owner and Signed on half title page, black & white photographs reproduced full page. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Back cover crease else in very good condition; signed inscription by author on inside front cover. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Wrappers. Compiler's presentation inscription. An earlier, 1958 edition was revised in 1959. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Condtion. 157 pages, illustrated. Several plates, folding maps & plans. Original red boards, gilt lettered. With a dustwrapper Signed by Paul Bidwell, British archaeologist to the front endpaper. Contents clean and bright throughout. The volume provides a systematic record of structural remains, landscape features, and material evidence across the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, offering an authoritative reference for understanding how the area developed from the Iron Age into the Roman occupation. Size: 22.5 x 29 cms. Category: Archaeology; Roman History; Varied Books. ISBN: 0117007137. ISBN/EAN: 9780117007130. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Small demy8vo, [vi], 82 p. Numerous illustrations and a folding map of Dublin. Original pictorial card covers. Fine copy inscribed 'With best wishes Maureen Ffrence-Devitt, March 1983'. Light book, postage will be reduced to cost on processing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2 volumes., 8vo, [xxvi, 236pp.] + [xxvi, 295pp.], half-titles to each volume, subscribers list, some black & white illustrations, partly uncut, patterned endpapers, original blind-stamped green cloth gilt. A remarkably near fine clean bright set of this interesting collection of 19th-century monumental inscriptions from various Middlesex locations in Greater London. A Presentation copy from the Author, signed in ink to half-title of Vol.2). A Collection of Curious and Interesting Epitaphs, Copied from the Monuments of Distinguished and Noted Characters in the Ancient Church and Burial Grounds of Saint Pancras, Middlesex (1869 1872) is a two-volume work by Frederick Teague Cansick. The books document 19th-century monumental inscriptions from various Middlesex locations, including Hornsey, Tottenham, Edmonton, Enfield, Friern Barnet, and Hadley. The collection includes detailed biographical notes, descriptions of armorial bearings, and highlights curious or interesting inscriptions from the Victorian era and covers notable figures buried in Saint Pancras and surrounding areas. The works are often cited in genealogical and historical research regarding Middlesex. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. 1st Ed. 25 x 17 cm., xxiv, 579 pp. Vol. 1 only of 4. Proceedings of the an International Symposium organized by the Greek National Group of International Association of Engineering Geology, Athens. A collection of chapters by various authors, mostly in English with some in French, all having abstracts in both languages. Vol. 1 contains papers in Section 1: Engineering geology and the protection of historical sites annd monument; 1.1. Slope stability, underground works and caves; 1.2. Foundations and miscellaneous aspects. Vol. 1 has an inscription in Greek, signed by the first editor, on the free end paper. The book is covered in laminated grey material with black lettering on the spine and front. CONDITION. Fine. A very clean tight copy. Weight before packing 1.2 kg. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by editor to renown Jewish Arabist scholar Shlomo Goiteim (Hebrew University, Princeton University) on fep, dated 1980, Russian text, many maps, figures, site photos, 1st edn, rare and important. No. 1 in a series. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Classic study of Mexican prehistoric architecture with drawings and photographs by the author. Signed by author on first page of Part 1. This two paperback volumes were apparently bound together by pre-Columbian art expert Hasso von Winning, who signed the free-front endpaper and embossed his coat of arms on the first page of Part 1. 338 pp in two parts with 57 plates and 121 figures. later hard cover binding. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Acceptable. All 212 plates are present. Green cloth binding very worn at the corners and edges. Foxing throughout & loose binding. Front free endpaper signed and dated 1930. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows significant signs of wear. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. J. Russell Smith, London, 1869. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Two volumes. 8vo. pp. xxvi, 236. Frontispiece. 3 illustrations. Volume two variant title: DISTINGUISHED AND NOTED CHARACTERS IN THE CEMETERIES AND CHURCHES Published in 1872. pp. xxv, 294. 2 illustrations. Several heraldic illustrations in the text. Bookplate of Hugh Brogan and list of subscribers in both volumes. Rebound in modern green cloth lettered gilt on spines. Two handwritten signed letters from Frederick Teague Cansick to J. Gough Nichols addressed from 28 Jeffreys St. N.W. the first dated March 11th 1870 and consisting of about 220 words and the second dated March 18, 1870 and consisting of about 150 words. In the first letter he says that he has searched through 'the church/churchyard of St Pancras and having 'dug out some' and turned over others that were upside down I do not think that there is one stone that has escaped my notice.' He says no trouble has been spared in deciphering the Latin inscriptions from the actual epitaphs existing, 'I think therefore my work the more valuable.' In the second letter he says it is ten years since he began copying from the stones and mentions some he could not decipher. He is collecting for a supplement and his next will be a volume on Highgate Cemetery and various others. He ends by saying he has found a copy of work that Nichols has kindly offered to correct. Frederick Teague Cansick (1829-1919) was born in North London. He recorded the monumental inscriptions from the gravestones in old St. Pancras graveyard which were displaced when St Pancras station was built and the railway line crossed the land. John Gough Nichols (1806-1873) printer and distinguished antiquary copied inscriptions and epitaphs. Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan (1936-2019) was a British historian and biographer who became a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and later Professor of History at the University of Essex. He wrote a major work on the history of the USA as well as works on Kennedy, Arthur Ransome and Alexis de Toqueville. He stated that his sole recreational interest was collecting English epitaphs and wished his own to be 'Brexit wrecks it'. Spotting to a few pages, small holes on fore-edge of about thirty pages of Vol. 1 consistent with having been previously sewn Very slight spotting, otherwise very good indeed.

First edition; 3 vols, 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); 17 lithograph plates, of which 7 coloured, numerous in-text woodcuts and engravings, errata slips, touch of offsetting to titles; contemporary full purple morocco by J. F. Shaw, gilt boards, spine lettered in gilt in six gilt compartments, turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, slight rubbing to upper board of vol 1, else fine; xxxii, [2], 406; xxxiv, 446; xxiv, 404 pp. A fine set of this classic work of Egyptology in a signed contemporary binding. 'Wilkinson, inspired by Gell, went to Egypt in 1821 where he spent twelve years of continuous hard work. He later returned to Egypt three times, in 1842, 1848-9, and 1855. He carried out excavations at Thebes and travelled as far south as the second cataract and into Nubia. He was able to arrive at results similar to Champollion, but he was not as interested in hieroglyphs as he was in the tomb paintings, which he studied intensively to discover what he could of everyday life in Egypt. A fascinating work' (Blackmer). Blackmer 1803: Hilmy II, 331.

Condition: Good. Not ex-library. Large folio. 56 x 39 cm.Original boards and cloth. The text volume is bound with damage to the back cover and split along the spine; the plate volume is disbound. These are very heavy volumes = 54 lbs. One volume of text and one volume of the two volumes of plates. The complete volume I of plates/laminás from 1-169 plus 2 color plates from vol. II = 233 and 250. A few plates chipped on edges. No. 3 of 500 hand numbered copies; this one signed with presentation as indicated below.« Ejemplar impreso de mas con la autorizacion del Dr. A. Penafiel conforme acontracto »Bien complet du volume de texte et un vol de planches sur 2, soit les planches 1 à 169 (Ornements, Vases, mythologie, métal, ustensiles, urnes et sépultures, statues et Tulas) sur un total de 318 planches.OCLC Number: 496052102.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from one of the individuals written about in the book, Benson Lossing, and dated. Book has moderate to heavy age/use wear, including scuffs and scrapes on leather, mostly near edges and corners. Illustrated, 185 pages. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Book.