White, Jon Manchip:Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
- Première édition 2015, ISBN: 9780399500763
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UK,12mo p/back,1st thus.[Green Penguin Crime series,number 1776.Precedes the US (NY) Dell Publishing,1963 p/back.A Judge Dee,Chinese detective story,originally published in UK,as an 8vo H… Plus…
UK,12mo p/back,1st thus.[Green Penguin Crime series,number 1776.Precedes the US (NY) Dell Publishing,1963 p/back.A Judge Dee,Chinese detective story,originally published in UK,as an 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,by Michael Joseph,1959.A 1st edn thus.] VG+. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy green+black illustration in Chinese style with an over-riding b/w Chinese calligraphic letter front cover with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.A couple of minimal,minor abrasion/indents to front - but without penetration.Concave spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges inevitably aged/toned; but contents bright,tight and clean - no intentional reading creases to any pages' corners.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn thus,5-221pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,18 chapters+Postscript.,10 full-page author's b/w line illustrations in Chinese style and a district's b/w map section,interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,author's preface,double-page b/w map Dramatis Personae list/table and 2pp blanks at rear. This book introduces to Penguin readers Judge Dee,a historic figure who lived from 530 to 700 A.D. during the Tang dynasty and whomvan Gulik's reconstructions,comes to us as one of the shrewdest and most likeable detectives in print. As magistrate of the little seaport of Peng-lai hesolves in these pages three interlocking felonies in which is involved as pretty a band of miscreants as one could hope not to meet.As Dee,alternately sipping tea and exploding into action,pursues the clues from a floating brother to an eerie,disused temple,evading the ghost of his predecessor and the fangs of a were-tiger on the way,one can understand that Agatha Christie should have joined in the critics' chorus of praise.of the book she said' I enjoyed the book immensely.The whole thing has great charm and freshness and I hope it will be a great success.' Author's 2nd (Ti-Jen -chieh) Judge Dee novel following his debut of 'The Chinese Bell Murders'. See my book ID rja628316 for Gulik's Penguin p/b 1st edn of 'The Emperor's Pearl - A Chinese Detective Story'. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p included,available UK only. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.PENGUIN,1962., 3, SOFTBACK "GREAT PAN GP89," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1957* Publisher: Pan Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps, slight rubs to head and tail of spine & spine edges. Very slight age darkening overall. No creases to spine or hinge but spine slightly dished. Seems little used if at all. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Considerable colouration to pages throughout particularly to margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: One block of 8 pp b/w photographs within text.* Pages: 186 pp. text. vi pp. Acknowledgements, List of dynasties, Bibliography & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- How did the Ancient Egyptians live ~ those builders of colossal tombs and temples whose rich civilisation reached such peaks of achievement over 3000 years ago? Leonard Cottrell, well known BBC producer, in this companion volume to his "The Lost Pharoes," vividly reconstruct their everyday life, taking as his central character a real person,, the Vizier Rekhmire, who lived about 1500 B.C. and whose tomb still exists. The bulk of the material is completely factual. Where scenes and characters are invented they are based almost entirely on recorded incidents. This book was written in 1955 and of course some of the assumptions and conclusions made by the author have been superceded by more recent information from excavation and archaeological research.* This is a VG copy of the 1st. thus. with minimal shelf wear and some tanning.*, Pan UK X169, 1957-01-01, 3, Oxford: Book Club Associates / Phaidon. Very Good/Very Good. 1980. Hard Cover. 4to This is a very heavy book but will be sent for the default cost. Air Mail by special arrangements. Dust jacket chipped at one corner. Black cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. No inscription. 287 pages clean and tight. A visual treat for all lovers of the past, this book contains thirty picture-essays which illuminate and convey the variety and range of ancient cultures by taking the reader on an eye-catching tour around some of the world's great archaeological sites, such as the Acropolis or the Inca fortress city of Machu Picchu, or by focusing on the high points of the achievements of a culture such as the pyramids of Egypt or the sculptures of West Africa. Each picture-essay has an introduction which relates the subject to the history and archaeology of the period, before exploring details through the medium of the fully captioned illustrations. The essays are grouped under six general headings: Lost Cities, Shrines and Temples, The Celebration of Kings, The Living and the Dead, The Practice of the Arts, and The Past in the Present, bringing together similar cultural manifestations from different places and times. Jacket illustration Machu Picchu (Robert Harding Associates, London). ., Book Club Associates / Phaidon, 1980, 3, London: Robert Hale. Very Good/Very Good. 1963. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket chipped to edges, repairs, price clipped. Red cloth with bright gilt titling on sine. No ownership inscription. 190 pages clean and tight. Professor Torgny Save-Soderbergh, professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University, Sweden, has a superb talent for making his subject come to life and for imparting his thoughts to the reader in popular, expressive language. He has given this book a title which reflects his aim : not so much to state facts as to convey the spirit of the times and to portray human beings as part of their own environment and conditions. A rich variety of subjects are dealt with --from the pyramid of about 3,000 years B.C. to the first monastic period of the Coptic church. Temple ruins, finds from tombs and extant inscriptions tell the story of the flowering and decay of cultures; but also of the individual's living conditions. He gives the reader a glimpse into the maze of royal politics, into artists' workshops and scribes' schools, into the temple intrigues of the priesthood and the art of healing, into daring expeditions of war and trade, even into the wage policy and labourers' strikes during the building of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Extracts from ancient Egyptian literature are reproduced-fragments of propaganda, rules of wisdom, hymns to the gods and superb love poetry. Recently-found Coptic texts shed new light on problems in the canonical gospels which are still controversial. The reader is made keenly aware of the scrupulous detective work that is called for in archaeological surveys and interpretations of ancient texts, if the reconstruction is to give a picture of how things once were. The account given by Professor Save-Soderbergh has familiarity and life, and this impression is deepened by the beautiful illustrations. ., Robert Hale, 1963, 2.75, Adler & Adler. Very Good. 1.22 x 6.39 x 9.27 inches. Hardcover. 1986. 319 pages. dj chipped.<br>One of the world's foremost explorers i nvestigates the origins of Maldive history and discovers that the seemingly remote and insignificant islands on the Indian Ocean o nce formed a crucial crossroads for early pre-European civilizati ons Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly When the Maldive I slanders converted to Islam in the 12th century, they discarded o r destroyed all traces of earlier cultures, thus denying their pa st. Recent archeological discoveries prompted the government to i nvite Heyerdahl to examine the artifacts and attempt a reconstruc tion of pre-Islamic history. Located in the Indian Ocean southwes t of India and west of Sri Lanka, the Maldives encompass two broa d, reefless sea passages (One-and-Half and Equatorial Channels) w ell-known to ancient mariners. Heyerdahl, an authority on primiti ve sea travel (Kon-Tiki, The Ra Expeditions, unravels a mystery t hat reaches into the vanished civilizations of Sumer and the Indu s Valley. The Maldivan artifacts showed that temples were built a round A.D. 550; that the original settlers had been sun-worshiper s. An important export of the Maldives in ancient times was cowri e shells, found only in the Islands and used as moneythese shells were unearthed in pre-Viking tombs (A.D. 550800) in Sweden! This is heady material for cultural diffusionists. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Librar y Journal This latest Heyerdahl adventure focuses on the Maldives , a group of atolls scattered across the equatorial Indian Ocean. Again, Heyerdahl is following the trail of the long-ears (this t ime without benefit of ancient reconstructed ship), whose traces he found in cultures from the Indus Valley to Easter Island and p re-Columbian Central America. They have apparently surfaced again as primogenitors of the Maldivians. Though digs have only just b egun, the Maldive evidence adds to the author's theories concerni ng the origins and migrations of Neolithic seafarers. The book is standard Heyerdahlalternately repetitive and sketchybut impartin g nonetheless a sense of both the thrill and the tedium of archae ological exploration. Jo-Ann D. Suleiman, NASA/Goddard Space Flig ht Ctr. Lib., Greenbelt, Md. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Informa tion, Inc. ., Adler & Adler, 1986, 2.75, English Heritage, London, 2012. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Stonehenge is one of the wonders of the world. Its great stones were raised more than 4,000 years ago as a temple to the sun; its banks and ditches are older still. This new guide includes a tour and history of the site and its remarkable landscape, together with full-colour maps, plans, reconstruction drawings and historic photographs. 48 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History::Ancient History; History; ISBN/EAN: 9781848021136. Inventory No: 256170. . 9781848021136, English Heritage, 2012, 3, Aozora Bunko POD, 2015-06. Good. / (POD() / POD / 18.8 x 12.8 x 0.33 cm, Aozora Bunko POD, 2015-06, 2.5, Kindai Bungeisha. Good. / / / 19.2 x 13.2 x 2.4 cm / 0.3 kg, Kindai Bungeisha, 2.5, London: Temple Press Limited, 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Original stapled covers, no tears or splits, just rubbed and darkened. Contents age toned throughout, even so still in good condition. Size 295mm x 205mm. Comprises numerous adverts and articles, including a post-war Reconstruction Plan: "Every factory should have enormous car parks, so that all the workers can reach their daily tasks in comfort., Temple Press Limited, 1941, 2.5, London: British Railways, 1958. Book. Good. Paper Covers. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 3pp, folding diagram (44x9 ins), staples removed. BR 31119. Supplement to No.31/32.., British Railways, 1958, 2.5, General Council of the Assemblies of God and Rivivaltime. Softcover, in Good condition, retired church library copy, Cover Photo: A partially reconstructed ziggurat or temple-tower at Ur shows how the Tower of Babel may have been built, with stairways leading up from one level to the next, a nice reading copy, . Good. Soft cover. 1975., General Council of the Assemblies of God and Rivivaltime, 1975, 2.5, U.S.A.: Knopf, 2001. Hardcover 1st edition, 2nd printing. APPEARS NEW AND UNREAD. Dust jacket in protective mylar. From the publisher:"In the year 629, a greatly revered Chinese Buddhist monk, Hsuan Tsang, set out across Asia in search of the Buddhist Truth, to settle what he called the "perplexities of my mind." Nearly a millennium and a half later, Richard Bernstein retraces the monk's steps: from the Tang dynasty capital at Xian through ancient Silk Road oases, over forbidding mountain passes to Tashkent, Samarkand, and the Amu-Darya River, across Pakistan to the holiest cities of India?and back. Juxtaposing his experiences with those of Hsuan Tsang, Bernstein reconstructs the hazards and glories of this long and sinuous route, comparing present and past. The monk described what he saw and experienced: landscapes, customs, and, above all, people and the variety of religious beliefs held by those he met. So does our present-day author?taking us to Buddhist cave temples, to the holy places of the Buddha's own life, to the ruins of the Gandharan civilization in Pakistan, to the university in the Ganges Valley where Hsuan Tsang studied. He too encounters extraordinary figures? among them a German monk in Bodhgaya, a down-and-out maharaja, and a supposed reincarnation of Shiva. And he follows the path of Hsuan Tsang not only in physical but in contemplative ways, reflecting on the mysteries and paradoxes of Buddhist philosophy and on the nature of the Ultimate Truth that was Hsuan Tsang's goal. Ultimate Journey is a vivid, profoundly felt account of two stirring adventures, one in the past and one in the present in pursuit of illumination.". First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New., Knopf, 2001, 5, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Stated First Edition with "1" in number row. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET WITH ORIGINAL $22.95 PRICE., Stackpole Books, 1994, 0, New York: Capricon Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Helen Nixon Fairfield. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked gently used book. Drawings by Helen Nixon Fairfield. More than 100 illustrations, many of them specially prepared drawings based on original sources. It is a fact-filled volume reconstructing the world of ancient Egyptians--each level of society--pharaohs, nobles, priests, soldiers, scribes and peasants--throughout ancient Egypt's 3,000 year history from the early dynasties to the advent of the Ptolemies It also descrbes their private lives, their temples, religion, education, modes of work and play. 200 pages, indexed. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 1980, Capricon Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, Capricon Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980, 3<
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