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La Cotte De St. Brelade, 1961-1978. Excavations by C.B.M. McBurney
by CALLOW, P. and J.M. CORNFORD (editors)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Norwich: Geo Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Norwich, Geo Books, 1986. Quarto, xx, 433 pages with numerous illustrations, tables and maps. Colour-pictorial papered boards a little unevenly sunned; spine slightly bumped with a tiny tear; initial leaves a little cockled; title page lightly stained; overall a very good copy. With the colour pictorial bookplate and ownership label (crossed out in ink) of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). La Cotte De St. Brelade is 'the largest and most productive cave or rock-shelter site in the British Isles [and] was originally made famous by the discovery of a rich Mousterian industry, fauna, and eventually fossil traces of Neanderthal man at the turn of the century' (Cambridge University Press website).
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133378
- Title
- La Cotte De St. Brelade, 1961-1978. Excavations by C.B.M. McBurney
- Author
- CALLOW, P. and J.M. CORNFORD (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Geo Books
- Place of Publication
- Norwich
- Date Published
- 1986
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Adelaide, South Australia
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