Humphrey John H Editor (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Paperback. Small typed word, "LIBRARY" on label on front cover. Erratum page tipped in. With several enclosures. 527pp. Illustrated. Full refund if not satisfied. Illustrated (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Paperback. Small typed word, "LIBRARY" stamped on cover and title page. 441pp. Illustrated. Full refund if not satisfied.

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ALABAMA SENATOR JOHN SPARKMAN. [4], 108, [12] pages. Hardcover: H 31.25cm x L 23.5cm. No dust jacket. Blue cloth rubbed with light spotting, slight flaking to front board's otherwise vibrant gilt lettering, front board decorated with color pictorial paste-on of inauguration throng at the US Capitol building, spine's gilt lettering remains vibrant. Scattered foxing throughout but strongest on several early leaves. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy. Three-line ink inscription upon front free endpaper: "To Ferman E. Duckworth | From | Senator John Sparkman." Large glassine envelope affixed upon rear pastedown contains a (H) 10 inch x (L) 8 inch b/w portrait photographic print of Senator Sparkman additionally inscribed in white ink: "To Ferman Duckworth | With best wishes | John Sparkman." Alabama Democratic Party politician John J. Sparkman (1899-1985) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1936 to 1946 and in the U.S. Senate from 1946 to 1979 as well as being Adlai Stevenson's vice-presidential running mate in the 1952 U.S. presidential election. Includes essays "The Search for a Usable Past" by Henry Steele Commager (pages 77-86), "The Contributions of the Civil War" by Bruce Catton (pages 87-88), and "The Twentieth Century" by Paul Horgan (pages 89-95). With b/w and color photographs and illustrations.…

Paperback. Condition: As New. Binding firm, cover shiny, interior clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Two Volume Set - 1008 pages - Articles and Archaeological Notes. Many illustrations. No flaws - no use. Unmarked, tight and clean. ISSN: 1047-7594. Heavy volumes.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Condition: New. 376 pages with numerous color and black and white illustrations. Includes an article about Hadrian's lost Temple of Trajan and an article about Dating the Pantheon. See photos for table of contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. One or two light external marks and scuffs. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Pages unmarked and uncreased. In good used condition overall. Size: 29.2 x 22.8 x 2.5 cm. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Archaeology; Roman and Byzantine antiquities; ISBN: 1887829148. ISBN/EAN: 9781887829144. Add. Inventory No: 241109ANY0348418. …

Soft cover. Condition: New. A new view of the origins of the Basilica: the Atrium Regium, Graecostasis, and Roman diplomacy. 35 J. McKenzie, Glimpsing Alexandria from archaeological evidence. 61 J. Baines, Appendix: Possible implications of the Egyptian name forAlexandria. 64 K. L. Zachos, The tropaeum of the sea-battle of Actium at Nikopolis: interim report. 93 S. Von Schnurbein, Augustus in Germania and his new town at Waldgirmeseast of the Rhine (with colour plates after p. 112). 109 J. Packer, TEMPLUM DIVI TRAIANI PARTHICI ET PLOTINAE: a debate with R. Meneghini (with colour plates before p. 113) . 137 G. C. M. Jansen, Social distinctions and issues of privacy in the toilets of Hadrian s Villa. 153 F. Yegül with T. Couch, Building a Roman bath for the cameras. 178 A. M. Small, V. Volterra & R. G. V. Hancock, New evidence from tile-stamps for imperial properties near Gravina, and the topography of imperial estates in SE Italy. 201 D. Erkelenz, Ubique gentium quadriuges et seiuges currus: Gespannmonumente für Angehörige der hohen ordines im römischen Reich? 219 J. H. Williams, New light on Roman Kent (with colour plates after p. 256). 237 P. Weiss, The vision of Constantine (with colour plates before p. 257). 260 T. Lewit, Vanishing villas : what happened to élite rural habitation in the West in the 5th-6th c. ? Archaeological Reports and Notes. 275 A. Morillo & V. García-Marcos, Legio VII Gemina and its Flavian fortress at León. 287 A. Romo Salas, Recent excavations and sculptural finds in the colony of Astigi (with colour plates on pp. 297-98). 300 K. Aslanidis, The Roman odeion at Epidaurus. 312 R. Jackson, The Domus del chirurgo at Rimini: an interim account of the medical assemblage. 322 L. J. Bliquez, Roman surgical spoon-probes and their ancient names. 331 D. Sherlock, The Roman combination knife and spoon. 336 E. Swift, Late-Roman bead necklaces and bracelets. 350 J. Spier, A lost consular diptych of Anicius Auchenius Bassus (A. D. 408) on the mould for an ARS plaque. 355 E. Ugurlu, Sarcophagi in the necropolis of Andriake, near Myra (Lycia). 367 A. Gutteridge & A. Hoti, The walled town of Dyrrachium (Durres) : new light on the early defences. 380 K. Bowes & A. Hoti et al. , An amphitheater and its afterlives: survey and excavation in the Durres amphitheatre. 395 Y. Hirschfeld, Social aspects of the late-antique village of Shivta. Fascicule: Debates and responses. 413 J. Greenberg, Plagued by doubt: reconsidering the impact of a mortality crisis in the 2nd c. A. D. 426 C. Bruun, The Antonine plague in Rome and Ostia. 435 A. Gardner, Debating the health of Roman archaeology. 442 A. Wilson, The archaeology of the Roman fullonica. 447 M. Flohr, Fullones and Roman society: a reconsideration. 451 Y. Porath, Herod s Circus at Caesarea: a response to J. Patrich (JRA 14, 269-83) . 456 J. Patrich, More on the Hippodrome-Stadium of Caesarea Maritima: a response to the comments of Y. Porath; JRA Vol. 16 (2003). ; Vol. 16; 408 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 233 pp. Consul Book 1443. Edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Ken Freeman. This anthology contains: Introduction by August Derleth; Primitives by August Derleth; From a Private Mad House by Humphrey Repton; Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism - Anonymous; Tale of a Chemist - Anonymous; The Last American by J. A. Mitchell; Mid-Period Pieces by August Derleth; Infinity Zero by Donald Wandrei; Frankenstein Unlimited by H. A. Highstone; Open Sesame by August Derleth writing as Stephen Grendon; Tepondicon by Carl Jacobi; The Fear Planet by Robert Bloch; De Produndis by Murray Leinster; Invasion by Frank Belknap Long; Dear Pen Pal by A. E. van Vogt; Time to Rest by John Wyndham writing as John Beynon Harris; An Ounce of Prevention by Paul Carter; The Song of the Pewee by August Derleth writing as Stephen Grendon; The Man Who Rode the Saucer by August Derleth writing as Kenyon Holmes; Later Than You Think by Fritz Leiber; And Lo! the Bird by Nelson Bond; The One Who Waits by Ray Bradbury; Vignettes of Tomorrow by Ray Bradbury; and Holiday by Ray Bradbury. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Minor shelf-wear only, otherwise in very good used condition. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Contents clean and bright, with uncreased pages. Bindings firm and tight, spine intact. Size: 27.9 x 21.5 x 1.2 cm. 224 pp. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Palestine -- Congresses; Israel -- Antiquities, Roman -- Congresses; ISBN: 1887829318. ISBN/EAN: 9781887829311. Add. Inventory No: 241109ANY0348424. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover gently rubbed and marked. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. All pages unmarked and uncreased. Otherwise, in good overall condition. Size: 27.9 x 21.5 x 1.9 cm. 264 pp. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Palestine -- Congresses; Israel -- Antiquities, Roman -- Congresses; ISBN: 1887829490. ISBN/EAN: 9781887829496. Add. Inventory No: 241109ANY0348526.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first edition of the first printed history of Wales and an important source in the history of Welsh historiography. Title within elaborate woodcut strapwork border (dated in manuscript), woodcut portraits, armorial shields, initials and head-and-tailpieces, eighteenth century annotations and scoring, inscription of Richard Thomas, 1775 at head of dedication, a few leaves towards end with shaved headlines, occasional water stains, small ink stains and light soiling, front endpaper detached, bookplate, later blindstamped calf, spine faded, a little rubbed, armorial book stamp to fpd, boards with gilt turn ins, marbled text block edges. (173*128 mm). (ESTC S121940; Sabin 40914; STC 4606). In the 1580s, Sir Henry Sydney, lord president of Wales asked the antiquary David Powel to prepare an English edition of Caradoc's medieval history based on a translation by Humphrey Llwyd. It was the source of the legend of the discovery of America by the Welsh prince Madoc ap Owen about 1170, which for 'centuries spawned countless tales of encounters with Welsh Indians on the American frontier' (ODNB).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The first printed history of Wales. First Edition, 1584, in speckled calf boards, corners repaired. Respined to style, raised bands, gilt title. Internally, lacking the title page; {signatures (q2-q8)}, 1-22, [2] blanks, 1-217 , 208-209, 220-401 pp, [1] errata, [11] table, [1] imprint, woodcut illustrations, initials, and ornaments, odd pagination but complete, a few ink marginal notes, ink ownership (John Whittaker or Whitaker), book label to fpd (D. Tecyn Lloyd). (183*136 mm). (ESTC S121940. STC 4606. Sabin 40914. Anderson 334). A Description of Cambria (p 1-22), is a revision, by Humphrey Llwyd, of a work by Sir John Price. The title continues: A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language above two hundreth yeares past: This work was the first to attribute the original discovery of America to the Welsh in the 12th C and contains two very early references to King Arthur, including a description of the discovery of the bones of the King and his Queen. …

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 730 pp; in 2 volumes; pages are contiguous; ARTICLES, ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS AND NOTES, REVIEW ARTICLES AND LONG REVIEWS AND BOOKS RECEIVED; well-illustrated with b & w photos and line drawings; in printed wraps.

Paperback. Condition: New. 764 pp; in 2 volumes; pages are contiguous; ARTICLES, ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS AND NOTES, REVIEW ARTICLES AND LONG REVIEWS AND BOOKS RECEIVED; well-illustrated with b & w photos and line drawings; in printed wraps.

Paperback. Condition: New. 840 pp; in 2 volumes; pages are contiguous; ARTICLES, ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS AND NOTES, REVIEW ARTICLES AND LONG REVIEWS AND BOOKS RECEIVED; well-illustrated with b & w photos and line drawings; in printed wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Condition: NEW. 413 pages. Contains articles on: --The process of building the Colosseum --Five papers on Roman slave traders and the buildings they used --The social distribution of Roman artifacts in Britain See photos for all articles listed in the table of contents.