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Anthropology & Archaeology Books

Anthropology & Archaeology Books

Studying our human lives, past and present, from around the world.
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Duveen; A Life in Art, Meryle Secrest, 2004. William St Clair's copy.

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A fascinating biography of Joseph Duveen, first Baron Duveen (1869-1939). He was a British art dealer, and one of the world's most influential figu...

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History of Herodotus, In Four Volumes, George Rawlinson, 1880, John Murray

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History of Herodotus. A new English version, edited with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodutus, from th...

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Voyage en Grece; Journal de bord, Henry Harrel-Courtes, 1957, author inscribed copy

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Author's presentation copy, inscribed to half title. A very uncommon book, with Worldcat only identifying 3 institutional holdings. Voyage en Grece...

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Gennadeion Notes III; Athens in the Time of Lord Byron, C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. From Hesperia, 1968

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Gennadeion Notes III; Athens in the Time of Lord Byron, by C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. A journal offprint;...

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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, W. Warde Fowler, 1904

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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System, by W. Warde Fowler. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, and Knickerbocker Press, New Yo...

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William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his published work on the subject.

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William St Clair Slavery Research Materials - a collection of slavery reference books from his library, along with 2 personal copies of his publish...

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Demosthenis; Opera ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem, Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1812, 5 volumes

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Demosthenis; Opera ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem, Accurate Edita. Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1812, 5 volumes. The best works of Demosthenes, Greek statesman...

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The Trial and Death of Socrates, Being The Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato, F.J. Church, 1887

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The Trial and Death of Socrates, Being The Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato. Translated into English by F.J. Church. Published by Ma...

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A New Account of the East Indies, by Alexander Hamilton, The Argonaut Press, 1930, Limited edition 2 Volume set

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A New Account of the East Indies, by Alexander Hamilton. With Numerous Maps and Illustrations. Now Edited with Introduction and Notes by Sir Willia...

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Northern Najd; A Journey from Jerusalem to Anaiza in Qasim by Carlo Guarmani, The Argonaut Press, 1938 Limited edition

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Northern Najd; A Journey from Jerusalem to Anaiza in Qasim by Carlo Guarmani. Translated from the Italian by Lady Capel-Cure. With Introduction and...

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The Man Who Presumed; A Biography of Henry M. Stanley, Byron Farwell, 1958

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The Man Who Presumed; A Biography of Henry M. Stanley, by Byron Farwell. Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a famous Welsh-American explorer, sol...

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Rambles & Studies in Greece, J.P. Mahaffy, 1887

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Rambles & Studies in Greece, by J.P. Mahaffy. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, acade...

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Erichthonius and The Three Daughters of Cecrops, Benjamin Powell, Cornell Thesis, 1906

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Erichthonius and The Three Daughters of Cecrops, by Benjamin Powell, A.B., A.M. A Thesis presented to the University Faculty of Cornell university ...

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"Yes, Lady Saheb"; A Woman's Adventurings with Mysterious India, Grace Thompson Seton, 1925

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"Yes, Lady Saheb"; A Woman's Adventurings with Mysterious India, Grace Thompson Seton (1872 - 1959; American writer and suffragist). Published by H...

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The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations, William Lithgow, 1906. Limited edition.

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The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous King...

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The Elgins, 1766-1917; A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives, Sydney Checkland, 1988

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The Elgins, 1766-1917; A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives, by Sydney Checkland. Provenance; from the library of the late William St ...

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Lord Elgin e i marmi del Partenone, William St Clair, 1st Italian edition, 1968

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Lord Elgin e i marmi del Partenone, di William St Clair. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian...

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Lord Elgin and the Marbles, by William St. Clair, 1967

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Lord Elgin and the Marbles, by William St. Clair. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, ...

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Lord Elgin and the Marbles, William St. Clair, 1967

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Lord Elgin and the Marbles, by William St. Clair. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, acade...

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A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974

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A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (193...

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A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974, William St Clair signed copy

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A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974, William St Clair signed copy. Provenance; from the library of ...

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A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974, William St Clair inscribed copy

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A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos; William St Clair inscribed copy. Provenance; from the library of the...

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The Elgin Affair, Greek Language edition, 1998. Υπόθεση Έλγιν : το χρονικό της αρπαγής των μεγαλύτερων θησαυρών της αρχαιότητας, Γιώργος Η. Κουσουνέλος

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The Elgin Affair; The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused, by Theodore Vrettos. (Υπόθεση Έλγιν : το χρονικό της...

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The Elgin Affair; The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused, Theodore Vrettos, 1997

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The Elgin Affair; The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused, by Theodore Vrettos. Provenance; from the library of...

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"Descensus Ad Terram"; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Jacob Rothenberg, PhD Submission, 1967

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"Descensus Ad Terram"; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Jacob Rothenberg, (PhD Submission, 1967). Provenance; from the library of the late Wil...

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Benjamin Robert Haydon and the Critical Reception of the Elgin Marbles, PhD dissertation, Frederick Cummings, Chicago, 1967

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Benjamin Robert Haydon and the Critical Reception of the Elgin Marbles; A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities i...

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Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture; The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum, Luciana Gallo, 2009

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Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture; The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum, by Luciana Gallo, 2009. Provenance; from the library of the la...

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The Highlanders of Scotland, William F. Skene, 1902

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The Highlanders of Scotland, by the Late William F. Skene, D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A. (Scot). Edited, with Excursus and Notes, by Alexander Macbain, M.A...

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Argyll's Highlands: or MacCailein Mor and the Lords of Lorne, Cuthbert Bede, 1902

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Argyll's Highlands: or MacCailein Mor and the Lords of Lorne; With Traditional Tales and Legends of the County of Argyll and the Campbells and Macd...

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Great Thinkers of The Eastern World, Ian P. McGreal, 1995

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Great Thinkers of The Eastern World; The major thinkers and the philosophical and religious classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the world o...

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Bound Collection of Biblical Pamphlets, 1914. Collated by James Hope Moulton, with Correspondence.

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Bound Collection of Biblical Pamphlets, 1914. With authors' names to spine; Thackeray, Simpson, Findlay, Mayor, Stawell, Bladon, Peake, Burkitt, La...

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Geschichte der Basler Mission, 1815-1899, Paul Eppler, 1900. 6 Maps.

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Geschichte der Basler Mission, 1815-1899, mit vier Kartenstizzen, by Paul Eppler (History of the Basel Mission with four map sketches). Published b...

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Jacob Epstein; Let There Be Sculpture; An Autobiography, 1940 first edition

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Let There Be Sculpture; An Autobiography, by Jacob Epstein. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British histor...

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Red Channels; The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television, 1950

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Red Channels; The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 202...

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Le Carnet d'un Pelerin; XVe Pelerinage de Penitence a Jerusalem, Couronne, 1896

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Le Carnet d'un Pelerin; XVe Pelerinage de Penitence a Jerusalem, Rhodes, Constantinople, Athenes, Patras. En vente chez l'auteur: L'Abbe Clement Co...

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Le Voyage de Sparte, Maurice Barres, Plon, Paris, 1922

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Le Voyage de Sparte, Nouvelle Edition Augmentee d'un Chapitre, by Maurice Barres. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 -...

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Vers Athenes et Jerusalem, Gustave Larroumet, Hachette, Paris, 1898

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Vers Athenes et Jerusalem; Journal de Voyage en Grece et en Syrie by Gustave Larroumet. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (...

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Professor Koeppen; The Adventure of a Danish Scholar in Athens and America, Klein & Altick, 1938

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Professor Koeppen; The Adventure of a Danish Scholar in Athens and America, by H.M.J. Klein & Richard D. Altick. Franklin and Marshall College ...

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Youthful Rambles on the Trail of the Classics 1912-1915 by Emerson H. Swift

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Youthful Rambles on the Trail of the Classics 1912-1915 by Emerson H. Swift. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 -...

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Pagans and Philosophers, John Marenbon, Princeton, 2015

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Pagans and Philosophers; The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz, by John Marenbon. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William...

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Athens from Alexander to Antony, Christian Habicht, Harvard, 1997

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Athens from Alexander to Antony, by Christian Habicht. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Provenance; from the library of the late William St C...

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Poet and Orator, Andreas Markantonatos and Eleni Volonaki, De Gruyter, 2019

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Poet and Orator; A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratoc Athens. Edited by Andreas Markantonatos and Eleni Volonaki. Provenance; from the library of...

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Rutgers; Demetrius of Phalerum, Fortenbaugh and Schutrumpf, 2018

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Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, Volume IX; Demetrius of Phalerum; Text, Translation and Discussion. Edited by William W. Forten...

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Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of a Woman, Gary Kelly, Oxford, 1976

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Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of a Woman. Edited with an Introduction by Gary Kelly. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the...

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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female Emancipation in France and England, Jacob Bouten, Amsterdam, 1922

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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female Emancipation in France and England, Jacob Bouten, Amsterdam, 1922. Doctorate Thesis. Text is in En...

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Aristophanis Comoediae, Aristophanes, Immanuel Bekkerus, 1828-9

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Aristophanis Comoediae - The Comedies of Aristophanes. Edited by Immanuel Bekkerus (August Immanuel Bekker 1785-1871). 4 Volumes (from 5 - missing ...

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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, Patrick Fraser Tytler, 1833

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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh: Founded on Authentic and Original Documents, Some of them Never Before Published: Including A View of the Most Importan...

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Pitcairn: The Island, The People and the Pastor, Thos. Boyles, Murray, 1860

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Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor; to Which is Added an Account of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island, ...

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