Caton thompson g (12 Ergebnisse)

6pp, 8b/w pls, Printed card cover, VGC.

10pp, 6b/w pls, Printed card cover, VGC.

Großformat, Original-Pappband. XV, 184, LXXXI Seiten mit zahlreichen s/w Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Exlibris auf den ersten Seiten, ansonsten textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. // Original hardcover. Clean book in good condition. Exlibris and name entry on the first pages, otherwise text-clean. Book from a non smoking environment. Dieses Exemplar stammt aus der Bibliothek von Walter W. Müller, Professor für Semitistik an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. Sprache: Englisch.…

Paper Boards. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquities, No X111. A British archaeological expedition to South Arabia, comprising the author, Freya Stark and Elinor Gardiner. 191pp plus 81 Plates and folding charts and maps. Original paper boards a bit spotted and spine is sunned with minor rubbing at ends. Contents tight and clean. …

Hardcover. 191 p. Good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and use. Retired library copy with corresponding labelling. Spine slightly faded. Book smells musty. Otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library rebound hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1944 by The Society of Antiquaries, London. Very minor foxing to front endpapers otherwise a good, clean copy. 77 of the 81 plates all intact & free from markings. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 6A*.…

Softcover. S. 244-303 Good condition. The reading pages are clean and unmarked. Slight signs of storage and wear. Spine with reading creases and tears. Book edges slightly rubbed. Otherwise a good copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First. edition. Orig. light-blue cloth. Quarto, 300 pp. 73 plates, some folding. Cloth unevenly sun-faded, cloth at right edge of front board a little puckered, very good to near fine.

First edition. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, No. XIII. Quarto. pp xvi, 191. 81 plates including 2 folding maps. Five of the photographs and six of the plans are by Freya Stark who the author joined when she returned to Hadhramaut in 1936. Original boards. Small graze to front cover obscuring the first five letters of Burlington House in the publisher's address. Another graze to bottom corner of rear cover. Tail of spine slightly scuffed. Very good. …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa, and operations of seekers of her sunken treasure of precious metals and stones - with photos; The Terror of the Terai - the story of one of the most remarkable elephant hunts on record - a twelve days' chase after a man-killing 'rogue'; Photo of a Venetian funeral; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - the humourous travels of a huband and wife with their donkey (part 4); Across the Pacific in a Chinese Junk - Captain George Ward and his voyage from Amoy, China to Victoria, British Columbia - article with photos, one of which includes Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford aboard the vessel; Forgotten - the terrible experience of a young surveyor off the coast of Trinidad; The Witching of the M'Bumbo - a tale of native witchcraft and trial by ordeal in Nigeria; Our Unlucky Day - an account of a series of disasters which struck a steamer, the S.S. Z_____ in the Gulf of Mexico; The Village of the Greeks - visit to a tiny hamlet in the Sicilian Mountains - with photos; The Gower Affair - a story of black magic at Porto Lokkoh on the West Coast of Africa. Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Elcock, Howard; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Pears, Charles; Holloway, W.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, Francis G.; Soper, G.; De Walton, John; Wigfull, W.E.; Prater, E.; Pears, Charles; Holloway, W.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, Francis G.; Soper, G. (illustrator).…

Oxford, 1944. 4to. Orig. boards. XV,184 pp. and 81 plates, some folded, some in colour.

No. XIII of the Reports of the Research Committee Society of Antiquaries of London. 81 plates (the majority photographic, with multiple images). 4to. Fine original printed boards. xv, 191pp. Oxford, Thompson set out for southern Arabia with Freya Stark and Elinor Gardner in 1937, arriving in Aden in October, at a time when the area was "archaeologically still terra incognita". It is interesting to note that several of the plates illustrating this work are by Freya Stark herself.…