Christopher Gange AFFORDABLE MODERN BRITISH ART Exhibition 34th April - 22nd May 2010
Katharine House Gallery, 2010 First Edition. Binding: Softcover. Book Condition: Near Fine Condition. Catalogue. Size: 9" x 8.5" approx . 32 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 300 grams. Category: Archaeology; Inventory No: 0033082. (Book ref. 0033082) £5.00
Brook, Fred: THE INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BRITISH ISLES 1. THE WEST MIDLANDS
(Batsford 1977 1st edn) Demy 8vo 223pp. bw ills.F/F (Book ref. 5471) £8.50
Caygill, Marjorie The British Museum A-Z Companion
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1999. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0714121576 Unmarked and undamaged copy of the hardback edition of this popular guide, complete with untorn dustjacket. 400pp (Book ref. 008271) £15.00
Jenyns, Soame Chinese Archaic Jades in the British Museum
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1951. First Edition. Board. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Undamaged binding in green-paper-covered boards with darker green buckram spine-cover. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Protected by original plain green dustjacket, which exhibits only minor wear. Endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise clean and bright. No inscriptions or any other markings. A 33-page essay is followed by 40 full-page black-and-white plates. (Book ref. 008269) £10.00
Lesley and Roy Adkins.: THE HANDBOOK OF BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY.
London. Constable. 1998. Large format paperback. 319 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in fine papercover. Ex shop stock. Unread book. ISBN: 0-09-478330-6. (Book ref. 6205) £12.95
Butt, John ; Donnachie, Ian: ''Industrial Archaeology in the British Isles''.
Paul Elek Ltd (London) 1979. xii + 307pp; 99 plates; 7 figures. Buff boards. VG in slightly worn dustwrapper. (Book ref. 1902) £15.00
Spence, Lewis. The Mysteries of Britain: Secret Rites and Traditions of Ancient Britain.
London; Senate, 1994.. ISBN 1859580572. Paperback, 8vo, facsimile reprint of original 1928 edition, illus wraps, 256 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. Very fine copy. No previous owner inscription. Lewis Spence's rallying call to spiritual regeneration animates this classic work. He provides good evidence that the Druids survived in the Celtic areas of the British Isles following the Roman invasion. (Book ref. 2176) £9.50
Pollard, Justin: Seven Ages of Britain: a history of the British people from the Ice Age to the Industrial Revolution
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003 1st. edn. xviii, 316 pp. Numerous cold. and b/w illus. D/w with one tiny tear to bottom corner of back panel otherwise a fine copy. (Book ref. 1999) £8.00
Budge, E.A. Wallis, M.A., F.S.A. On the Hieratic Papyrus of Nesi-Amsu, a Scribe in the Temple of Amen-Ra at Thebes, about B.C. 305 [the three books complete]
Archaeologia, 1890. First Edition?. Very Good. 242mm x 298mm tall (9.5" x 11.75" approx.). Pp 393-608 incl. [216pp], comprising the whole of the papyrus of Nesi-Amsu in the three distinct compositions: "The Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys", 2) "The Litanies of Seker", and 3). "The Book of the Overthrowing of Apepi", with their translation into English. Disbound from Archaeologia Volume 52, Pt 2.. Very good. (Book ref. 003963) £35.00
HAYES GEOFFREY COLLIERIES & THEIR RAILWAYS IN THE MANCHESTER COALFIELDS
LANDMARK PUBLISHING, 2004. 1st Thus. Cloth. VG/VG. Large 8vo 184306135x Good history of the Coal Mines of the South East Lancashire Coalfield - Atherton, Tyldesley, Worsley, Agecroft etc. and the related railway systems. 208pp, many photos and maps. VG copy in very slightly worn dw. (Book ref. 010475) £14.00
Middleton, Professor J. Henry, F.S.A. On a Roman Villa in Spoonley Wood, Gloucestershire; and on Romano-British Houses Generally
Archaeologia, 1889. First & Only Edition?. Very Good. 242mm x 298mm tall (9.5" x 11.75" approx.). 18pp, with 3 plates, with a total of 17 figs., plus a multi-folding colour-plate. Disbound from Archaeologia Volume 52, Pt 2.. Very good. (Book ref. 003958) £10.00
BRITISH MUSEUM A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain - in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities
The Trustees of the British Museum, 1922 136p, frontispiece, 13 pages of plates and numerous illustrations, a LOW-POSTAGE hardback* - or stiff board, a very good copy (no dust-jacket) *Please ignore the default postal figure and note that POSTAGE AND PACKING on this book will be LOW (Book ref. 106638) £10.00
Pryor, Francis The making of the British landscape: how we have transformed the land, from prehistory to today
Allen Lane, 2010. 1846142059 First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Very clean, tightly bound book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xx + 812 pages, 18 colour photos on plates, many illustrations in the text, notes, references, glossary, index. Heavy book (Book ref. 35989) £14.50
Bidwell, Paul English Heritage Book of Roman Forts in Britain
United Kingdom: B T Batsford Ltd, 2002. Soft cover. As New. Large format paperback book. Illustrated mainly in b/w with some colour. Excellent clean and sound condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No creases, tears or loss (Book ref. 022220) £5.00
BURT ROGER et al (editors) THE DERBYSHIRE MINERAL STATISTICS 1845 - 1913
EXETER: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, 1981. 1st. Card. VG. 8vo 0950762407 Details all officially recorded production from metalliferous mines in Derbyshire - lead, iron, manganese, silver, barytes and flourspar. 141pp. VG copy in card covers. Uncommon.. (Book ref. 005208) £15.00
FOX, Aileen: Roman Britain.
London: Lutterworth, 1976. Drawings: Alan Sorrell. 8th imp. Vg brown cloth h/b with gilt lettering to cover & spine; VG col illus d/w with white lettering, not pc or chipped, one tear. 20.25cms x 25.75cms, 48pp. B/w map frontis & 29 b/w illus. School stamp to fep & rfep. Clean, unmarked copy. Weight 368g. 0718808002. (Book ref. 2592) £4.50
Hadfield, Charles British Canals an Illustrated History.
London: Readers Union, 1952. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo A peacock blue cloth cover with gilt titlesand a redcircular emblem of the Thames and Severn canal, 1795 on the front cover. A clean crisp and tight book of 263 pages (including several pages of notes, a bibliography and an index), 8 plates, 44 illustrations in the text, and 17 maps. The dust wrapper has internal repairs to chips and wear to the wdges. (Book ref. 030183) £5.00
The British Museum The Townley Gallery Volume I
London: Charles Knight & Co, 1836. Cloth Covered Hardback. Very Good/No Dustwrapper. 16mo A 6 7/8" by 4 3/8" purple cloth covered hardback of 352 pages. The gilt titles " Library of Entertaining Knowledge / Townley Gallery / I " are clear alothough the spine is faded and darkened. The spine ends have short splits in the cloth and there is one short split in the back edge of the spine. The cover corners are underturned with the boards showing at the points. The purple cloth is faded and browned., with the back cover having paler spotting. The endpapers are a green optical illusionish pattern. The front and back hinges have the endpapers split showing the bandage below. The book is otherwise tight. The text is quiteclean and crisp with only an odd fox spot on a few pages. (Book ref. 025507) £20.00
Adkins, Lesley & Adkins, Roy A. The Handbook of British Archaeology
London: Macmillan, 1983. Softcover. Good -/No Dustwrapper. 8vo 0333348435 A tight working copy with tatty covers, a piece mising from the top of the half title page and some curling of the earlier page corners. 320pp. Over 500 b/w line illustrations (Book ref. 025161) £6.00
Kilbride-Jones , H. E. Celtic Craftsmanship in Bronze
London: Croom Helm, 1980. 1st. Hardback. Fine/Very Good ++. 4to 0-7099-0387-1 Primarily concerned with the craftsmanship of the Bronzesmiths of Britain and Ireland during the period from the begining of the first century AD until the end of the seventh century. 266 pages including an index and reference notes at the end of each chapter. An excellent condition hardback without owner's inscriptions. A bright and crisp unclipped dustwrapper which is gently faded from broze to gold in the area of the spine and shadowing other book edges on the back cover. (Book ref. 022720) £30.00