Isbn: 9780880298513 - ancestral voices: decoding ancient languages (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Almost new. HELA80876 Ancestral Voices, Decoding Ancient Languages, James Norman, 1975, Barnes & Noble Books NY, 1st Edition 1992, 9.5"x6.25", b&w illustrations & pictures, 141 pages.

New Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes: Originally published: New York : Four Winds Press, 1975. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index. Subject: Extinct languages. Inscriptions - History. Writing - History. Ancient culture. Decipher. Hieroglyphics. Rosetta Stone. Mesopotamia. Archeology. Myths. Trojan war. Genre: Bibliography, Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Zustand: BUONO. New York, Barnes & Noble Books cm.15,5x23,5, pp.(10),242,(4), alcune cartine, disegni e foto in bn.nt., legatura ed.in mz.tela, titoli in oro al dorso, sopraccop.fig.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. Reprint. 242pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. A few faint spots on boards, near fine in a slightly rubbed near fine dust jacket. "The fascinating story of how the discovery and deciphering of long-forgotten systems of writing have uncovered the literatures and histories of numerous ancient cultures and added more than two thousand years to recorded history.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. Dustwrapper, pp.242, bw ills. Slight shelf rubbibg to dustwrapper spine ends, and a small scratch across the dustwrapper spine just below the authors name.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. Condition Notes: Previous owners' name & date to the first blank; Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (0.7 kg); pp 242; Index; Bibliography; Cover art by Jack Eckstein; Includes: Timeline; Black & white photographs; Black & white drawings; Maps; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #186336 ||.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 2nd Edition. Barnes and Noble edition, 1st printing ; 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN 9780880298513, 0880298510 OCLC 27944066 ; LCCN 75014426 LC P901 .N6 Dewey 417.7 ; black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The invention of writing -- Deciphering lost languages -- The mysterious east -- It is scientifically insoluble -- The Rosetta Stone -- I've got it! I've got it! -- The wedge signs -- To win a wager -- Rawlinson and the Behistun rock -- Babylon revisited -- A lost civilization and a forgotten flood -- A harvest of decipherments -- New-world writing -- The Maya riddle -- Computers, toothaches, and emblems -- Pushing back Europe's horizon -- Cracking linear b -- The next decipherments ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Zustand: Very Good.