TAMTOK : SITIO ARQUEOLOGICO HUASTECO / SITE ARCHEOLOGIQUE HUASTEQUE by GUY Y CLAUDE STRESSER-PEAN, COLABORACION DE ALAIN ICHON - 2001: VOLUMEN I : SU HISTORIA, SUS EDIFICIOS

Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. First Edition, first printing. Original edition, precedes the 1986 reprint. Printed wrappers. Published Chicago: Center for Urban Policy/Loyola University, 1980. 8vo., v+222 pp. Plain cream wrappers with front printed in brown. A near fine copy.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..

London: J.B. Nichols and Sons, 1857. Hardcover. See Description. Tall 4to. pp. viii, [2], 508. Volume XXVII. 12 plates including several in color and 2 folding maps (one map is folded in six sections and backed with thin gauze or mull). B&W illustrations with the text. Pages are generally clean with a couple small marginal tears. Light brown cloth; re-backed preserving part of the original spine (minus 25mm at the tail and 15mm at the top). Inner hinges neatly strengthened. Some rubbing and wear; corners bumped. Contents include: An accound of the discovery of Anglo-Saxon remains at Kemble, in North Wilts; On choirs and chancels, particularly as to their use in the South of Europe; Remarks on some early churches in France and Switzerland, partly in the time of Charlemagne; The City of Cumae and the recent excavations there; An account of the investigation of some remarkable circular trenches, and the discovery of an ancient British cemetery, at Stanlake, Oxon.; The Burning and burial of the… Read More

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Hardcover without dust jacket. Used - fine condition. Book is clean and tight with very little shelf wear aside from some light bumping to the corners. No markings or blemishes inside the book. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.

Small Quarto (9 1/2 X 7 inches) London: Bernard Quaritch, 1890. First Edition. 101 + (1) pages, almost 50 lithographic plates (more than 35 printed with color), quarter leather binding over cloth boards, front cover embossed with title, author, and publisher in gilt; back cover similarly embossed in gilt with "Ye Pipes of all Nations A. D. Up to Date," and gilt bust of a soldier in cap and tunic in the form of a pipe bowl. Very good condition, minimal wear to spine; age toning in margins of plates, but not affecting images or contents.

A beautiful book: "A collection of national smoking practices and illustrations of smoking paraphernalia," with descriptive text.

Toronto, Viking/Penguin Canada, 1991, hardcover, xvi-200 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket, Signed by the Author on the front endpaper. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge bumps, rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. An examination of diseases and other catastrophes that have decimated world populations throughout history. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs and reproductions of artworks. Appended: Bibliography and Index. ISBN
9780670831227

U. Tokyo Press; 1972. Revised edition. UTP 3045676825149. Hardcover; 170 pg. Dust jacket surface rubbed; edges lightly chipped, 1 small tear in top edge. Brown cloth cover; bottom of spine & corners lightly bumped. Owner's name on front free-endpaper. Some light creasing in pages and light pencil marks in text. Several fold-out genealogical charts & maps, esp. large map, 17 by 17 inches, tipped-in back endpaper. Text is in English.

2 volumes: 260 pages with maps (some folding), illustrations, plates (some in color) and figures; 253 pages with maps, tables, illustrations, figures, plates, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 1/4") volume one rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and original wrappers bound in; volume 2 bound in original wrappers. Inscribed to Professor George M Foster. Copy 244 of 1000 copies issued. First edition.A mining engineer turned ethnologist, the author has done a much needed service by studying in anthropological terms an isolated region inhabited by mestizos. As the method was extensive rather than intensive, the data are mostly in the realm of material culture and linguistics. This work covers all aspects of the area surveyed, from the geography, climate, indigenous peoples, their economics as well as the history. This includes language, the archaeology of the region and a survey of even some potential sites. A scarce work on this subject.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in… Read More

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1968. Two volume set. First editions. Hard covers in dust jackets. Published London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1968, first printings. 8vo., x+402; 403-751pp. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Both volumes fine in price-clipped, near fine dust jackets with edgewear. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

Chunghwa Post, 2004. Hardcover. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. All stamps and postcards are included in the book. The plastic holders for the postcards on pg. 17-23 are coming slightly unglued. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.