The Palace of Minos by Arthur Evans, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Volume I only. First edition. Collated and complete. Clean, bright, unmarked and firmly bound copy, with light foxing to page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Colored And Supplementary Plates, Figures In Text, Plans, Tables (illustrator). 1st Edition. Four Volumes, An Incomplete Set, In Original Blue Cloth, Gilt, With Dust Jackets And Slipcases. First Printings. Volume I: Fine In Fine Dust Jacket, Slipcase With Wear At Open Corners, Mostly At The Right Open Corners. Volume Ii: Lacking Volume Ii Parts I And Ii. Volume Iii: The Great Transitional Age In The Northern And Eastern Sections Of The Palace ; The Most Brilliant Records Of Minoan Art And The Evidences Of An Advanced Religion. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket, In Lightly Used Slipcase With Wear At Open Corners. Vol. Iv,Part I, Emergence Of Outer Western Enceinte. With New Illustrations, Artistic And Religions, Of The Middle Minoan Phase ; Chryselephantine 'Lady Of Sports', 'Snake Room', And Full Story Of The Cult : Late Minoan Ceramic Evolution And "Palace Style". Volume Iv,Part.2, 'Camp-Stool' Fresco ; Long Robed Priests And Beneficient Genii, Chryselephantine Boy-Pod And Ritual Hair-Offering ; Intaglio-Types Mmiii-Lmii ; Late Hoards Of Sealings ; Deposits Of Inscribed, Tablets And The Palace Stores ; Linear Script B And Its Mainland Extension ; Closing, Palatial Phase ; 'Room Of The Throne' And Final Catastrophe. With Epilogue On The Discovery Of 'Ring Of Minos' And "Temple Tomb. Volume Iv Parts I And Ii Both Fine In Fine Dust Jackets, In A Quite Worn Slipcase Frayed And Bumped At Center Of Left Open Edge, And With Top Right Long Edge Detached But Complete. International Shipping Not Available Due To Lack Of Fully Insurable Shipping Options For The Set.

Condition: Near Fine. Washington DC 1902 first edition. GPO. Extracted from Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1901. pp. 425-437 with 5 bw fullpage photo illus. In later plain wraps. no owner marks. Near Fine.

First edition. 8vo, 63pp, 14 photographic illustrations, 9 plans including one linen-backed in rear pocket, original brown cloth, dust-jacket, slightly faded; overall a very good copy. Pendlebury's handbook gives us a detailed architectural history of the Palace at Knossos on the Island of Crete.

First editions throughout, vol IV part II and offprints signed by author; 5 vols bound in 7, plus complimentary extract and offprint, 4to (25.5 x 19.5); approximately 952 illustrations (many full-page), 35 colour plates, 69 supplementary plates, 11 large plans in pockets at end of volumes, slight marginal damage to plates at rear of vol II part I; publisher's gilt decorated blue cloth, with gilt motifs and borders to boards and spines, light fading to spines of vol IV pt I and II, inner margin tear to offprint, some light rubbing to extremities, a very good set. A well-preserved first edition of Evans' vast work of over 3000 pages recording one of the most important excavations in the history of archaeology, which also serves as an encyclopaedia of the whole range of Minoan culture known up to that time. Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) dedicated his life to the study of the Aegean civilisation and was a pioneer of Bronze Age archaeology. The index was compiled by the author's sister, herself a distinguished archaeologist, Dr. Joan Evans. The offprint, signed by the author, addresses the Aegina Treasure, found in 1892 and still do this day one of the most important collections of Minoan jewellery. It was well known that Crete was a hotbed of Bronze Age archaeology yet to be fully uncovered by academics, but Ottoman rule and hostility prevented any government co-operation. When the Cretan Republic was founded in 1899, many European museums and universities rushed to secure permissions, only to find Evans had purchased private ownership of the prime spots in Heraklion, the cultural capital of the Minoan Civilisation.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. First. Volumes 1 -3 only, bound in 4 parts. Thousands of in-text illustrations, plans & tables, some folding. Frontispiece and many other plates, some in color, in each volume. Short thick 4to, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, t.e.g. London: Macmillan, 1921, 1928, 1930. First editions. A near fine set, just barely worn at spine ends. Lacking Volume IV and Index, which were published later in 1935. Each volume is complete in itself. Volume I: The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages. Volume II, Part I: Fresh Lights on Origins and External Relations: The Restoration in Town and Palace After Seismic Catastrophe. Volume II, Part II: Town-houses in Knossos of the New Era and Restored West Palace Section, with its State Approach. Volume III: The Great Transitional Age in the Northern and Eastern Sections of the Palace. Minoan Art and the Evidences of an Advanced Religion.