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THE HOUSE OF THE DOUBLE AXE : The Palace at Knossos
by Vaughan, Agnes Carr
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Stated First Edition. Gilt embossed bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/nips, chips, small losses & rubs to edges. PO label to front cover verso & bookshop sticker to rear cover verso. Archaeology. Guide for "either the scholar or the traveler" to the amazing excavations and reconstructions at Knossos, Crete by Sir Arthur Evans (1851 - 1941). The ruins, spread over some 5 acres, revealed a palace, artifacts and some 3000 clay tablets of two distinct scripts dubbed Linear A (or Minoan script) and Linear B. Using references in the contemporary cultures of Egypt, Mycenae, and Asia Minor, Agnes Vaughan (1887 - 1974) recreates Minoan life in the Palace of Knossos. 240 pgs w/photos, 2 parts: I, The Great Discovery; and, II, Mnoan Life & Customs.. Fine copy in lesser dust jacket.
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- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009106
- Title
- THE HOUSE OF THE DOUBLE AXE : The Palace at Knossos
- Author
- Vaughan, Agnes Carr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Archaeology/Anthropology/Crete/Greece/Travel Guide, Drt
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology/Ethnology;
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