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.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos

Publisher

Macmillan, London

Publication Date

1921

Binding

hardcover

Edition

First.

Condition

near fine

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Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB
116 East 59th Street, New York, NY, 10022, U.S.A.

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Argosy Book Store, Inc.
Benjamin Lowry
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