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(Allen, J., Inv # 23672) Allen, J. Romilly. CELTIC ART IN PAGAN
AND CHRISTIAN TIMES. Methuen, 1904 (cloth). 8vo, 315 pp.,
illustrated with photos and drawings. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/23672.jpg">Illustration</a>
$75.00
(Andersson, J., Inv # 22125) Andersson, J. Gunnar. CHILDREN OF
THE YELLOW EARTH: STUDIES IN PREHISTORIC CHINA. Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trubner, 1934 (cloth). $45.00
(Chalfant, F., Inv # 23171) Chalfant, Frank H. EARLY CHINESE
WRITING. Carnegie Museum, 1906 (cloth). Large 4to, 35 pp., 50
pages of plates. Reprint from Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum,
Vol. IV, No. 1, 1906. Rebound cloth, with small gouge to spine,
otherwise very good. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/23171.jpg">Illustration</a>
$100.00
(Chan, R., Inv # 23740) Chan, Roman Pina. THE OLMEC: MOTHER
CULTURE OF MESOAMERICA. Rizzoli, 1989 (cloth). 4to, 240 pp + 117
ills. very good in dust jacket. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/23740.jpg">Illustration</a>
$65.00
(Gray, H., Inv # 22506) Gray, Mrs. Hamilton. TOUR TO THE
SEPULCHRES OF ETRURIA IN 1839. J. Hatchard and Son, 1840
(leather). 12mo, 507 pp. one 18.5" x 12" folding plate, hand
colored. Good copy, although back board is partially detached.
<a href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/22506.jpg">Illustration</a>
$225.00
(Hansford, S., Inv # 21662) Hansford, S. Howard. A GLOSSARY OF
CHINESE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY. China Society, 1954 (boards). $35.00
(Harada, Y., Inv # 4095) Harada, Yoshito. MU-YANG-CH'ENG: HAN
AND PRE-HAN SITES AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT LAO-T'IEH IN SOUTH
MANCHURIA. Far-Eastern Archaeological Society, 1931 (cloth).
Archaeologia Orientalis volume II. Text in Japanese, summary in
English. Good copy. Scarce. $400.00
(Heyerdahl, T., Inv # 19586) Heyerdahl, Thor, and Edwin N.
Ferdon, eds. ARCHAEOLOGY OF EASTER ISLAND (REPORTS OF THE
NORWEGIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO EASTER ISLAND AND THE EAST
PACIFIC, VOLUME 1). School of American Research and the Museum of
New Mexico, 1961 (cloth). very good copy with dust jacket.
$125.00
(Houma Foundry, Inv # 18680) Institute of Archeology of Shanxi
Province. ART OF THE HOUMA FOUNDRY. Princeton University Press,
1996 (new cloth). $157.50
(Hubei Provincial Museum, Inv # 17630) Hubei Provincial Museum.
LACQUERWARE FROM THE WARRING STATES TO THE HAN PERIODS EXCAVATED
IN HUBEI PROVINCE. Hubei Porvincial Museum/Chinese University of
Hong Kong, 1994 (cloth). $75.00
(Joyce, T., Inv # 18532) Joyce, Thomas A. SOUTH AMERICAN
ARCHAEOLOGY. Macmillan/Warner, 1912 (cloth). $65.00
(Kendrick, T., Inv # 22902) Kendrick, T. D. THE DRUIDS: A STUDY
IN PREHISTORY. Methuen, 1927 (cloth). 8vo, xiv + 227 pp. very
good copy, no dust jacket. $75.00
(Khan, G., Inv # 6698) Natural History Museum, LA. EMPIRES
BEYOND THE GREAT WALL: THE HERITAGE OF GENGHIS KHAN. Natural
History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1994 (new cloth).
exhibition catalog $45.00
(Laufer, B., Inv # 20415) Laufer, Berthold. JADE: A STUDY IN
CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY AND RELIGION. Field Museum of Natural
History, 1912 (cloth). 8vo, xiv + 170 pp. Original edition. As
is, exlib. - markings on spine, stamps on backs of plates,
cloth tape repair to front hinge; waf. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/20415.jpg">Illustration</a>
$125.00
(Leakey, L., Inv # 23563) Leakey, L.S.B., ed. OLDUVAI GORGE:
1951-61. Cambridge, 1967 (cloth). 4to. 2 vols: FAUNA AND
BACKGROUND by Leakey (118pp) and THE CRANIUM OF
AUSTRALOPITHECUS BOISEI (265pp.) by P.V. Tobias. very good,
with dust jacket. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/23563.jpg">Illustration</a>
$125.00
(Leeds, E., Inv # 22640) Leeds, E.T. EARLY ANGLO-SAXON ART AND
ARCHAEOLOGY: BEING THE RHIND LECTURES DELIVERED IN EDINBURGH,
1935. Oxford, 1968 (cloth). 4to, xii + 130 pp + 33 plates. very
good, bookplate; dust jacket edgeworn. Cover and frontispiece
shown in illus. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/22640a.jpg">Frontis</a> <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/22640.jpg">Illustration</a>
$45.00
(Murck, C., Inv # 18454) Murck, Christian F., ed. ARTISTS AND
TRADITIONS: USES OF THE PAST IN CHINESE CULTURE. Art Museum,
Princeton University, 1976 (cloth). $65.00
(Murray, M., Inv # 6409) Murray, M. A. and J. C. Ellis. A STREET
IN PETRA. British School of Archaeology, 1940 (cloth). Spine
faded else very good+. $85.00
(Niccolini, F., Inv # 23558) Niccolini, Fausto and Felice.
MAISONS ET MONUMENTS DE POMPEI. Citadelles and Mazenod, 1997 (new
cloth). Folio. 222pp. New, with dust jacket and slipcase.
Tasteful and colorful survey of the images of the recovery and
"imagination" of ancient Pompei, including the decorative
motifs derived from it. Text in French. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/23558.jpg">Illustration</a>
$150.00
(Nunome, J., Inv # 9912) Nunome, Junro. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
FIBER: A COMPLIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIBER ARTIFACTS. Senshoku
to Seikatsusha, 1992 (cloth). Collected photographs of textiles
from the first to the seventeenth centuries at moderate and
very high magnification; bi-lingual English-Japanese text; fine
copy with dust jacket and slipcase. $75.00
(Pogue, J, Inv # 13557) Pogue, Joseph E. THE TURQUOIS. A STUDY
OF ITS HISTORY, MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY,
MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND TECHNOLOGY. Rio Grande Press, 1978
(cloth). Reprint with preface material by Rex Arrowsmith,
Geologist. very good copy. $30.00
(Rawson, J., Inv # 5074) Rawson, Jessica, Forward by. THE
CHINESE BRONZES OF YUNNAN. Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., 1983
(cloth). Folio, 261 pp., 249 color and b/w plates. "The Bowater
Library of Chinese Civilization." very good copy with dust
jacket and worn slipcase. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/5074.jpg">Illustration</a>
$125.00
(San Francisco, Inv # 16143) Archeo-Tec for the S. F. Clean
Water Program. BEHIND THE SEAWALL: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY ALONG
THE SAN FRANCISCO WATERFRONT. San Francisco Clean Water Program,
1981 (paper). Three substantial quarto volumes filled with maps
charts and photographs. An impressive production for a
government agency. Fine. $150.00
(Stein, M., Inv # 20543) Stein, M. Aurel. RUINS OF DESERT
CATHAY: PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND
WESTERNMOST CHINA. Macmillan, 1912 (cloth). Small 4to, vol.1
xxxviii + 546 pp., 154 illus., 3 folding panoramas, 3 color
plates, 1 folding map; vol. 2 xxi + 517 pp., 155-333 illus., 3
folding panoramas, 6 color plates, 2 folding color maps. very
good copy - hinges cracked here and there resulting in slight
looseness and very light foxing. Scarce<a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/20543a.jpg">Wang Tao-shih fig.
187</a> <a href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/20543b.jpg">plate vii,
painting from Tun-huang</a> <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/20543.jpg">Illustration</a>
$1000.00
(Stein, M., Inv # 22427) Stein, M. Aurel. SAND-BURIED RUINS OF
KHOTAN: PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND
GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS IN CHINESE TURKESTAN. Hurst and
Blackett, 1904 (cloth). Good copy, paper hinges cracked, minor
fraying at corners. 2 inch tape repair to folding map. This is
the "cheaper edition." <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/22427.jpg">Illustration</a>
$425.00
(Tseng, H., Inv # 22543) Tseng, Hsien-Ch'i. LOAN EXHIBITION OF
CHINESE PAINTINGS. Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, 1956
(paper). small 4to, 60 plates. Exlib, covers roughed along spine.
<a href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/22543.jpg">Illustration</a>
$35.00
(Vitali, R., Inv # 19614) Vitali, Roberto. EARLY TEMPLES OF
CENTRAL TIBET. Serindia, 1990 (cloth). $40.50
(Wheeler, M., Inv # 22621) Wheeler, Mortimer. CHARSADA, A
METROPOLIS OF THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER, BEING A REPORT ON THE
EXCAVATIONS OF 1958. Oxford, 1962 (cloth). 4to, 130 pp., 45
plates. very good copy with dust jacket. <a
href="http://moesbooks.com/pics/22621.jpg">Illustration</a>
$150.00
(White, W., Inv # 8720) White, William Charles. BONE CULTURE OF
ANCIENT CHINA: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF BONE MATERIAL FROM
NORTHERN HONAN, DATING ABOUT THE TWELFTH CENTURY, B.C. University
of Toronto, 1945 (++++ cloth). Early study of writing on sheep
scapula and tortise plastron divinitory (pyromancy) relics from
the Shang period; very scarce, fine copy. $150.00
(White, W., Inv # 10359) White, William Charles. TOMB TILE
PICTURES OF ANCIENT CHINA: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF POTTERY
TILES FROM TOMBS OF WESTERN HONAN, DATING ABOUT THE 300 BC.
University of Toronto, 1939 (cloth). very good copy, scarce book.
$150.00
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