the british museum press london england (42 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Fair in blue illustrated boards. Boards heavily rubbed, Spine and corner tears. Spine tight, square. Interior bright, clean. No marks. Great content, poor appearance.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Paperbound. Covers very lightly shelf-rubbed. Corners very lightly bumped. No other defects. Nice instructional copy.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. British Museum Pocket Dictionaries Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 48 pages; Book Tight, Dust Jacket shows little wear of usage Text is clean no markings seen Illustrated with color Photos; BX248.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. VG+ in illustrated wrappers. Paperbound. Covers very lightly shelf-rubbed. Spine square, tight, uncreased. Interior bright, clean. No marks. Heavily illustrated in color, black and white.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. British First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with colour photographs or reproductions of Buddhist paintings. Book.

Hard cover. First edition. 240 p. Contains: Illustrations. Colonnade Book. Audience: General/trade. Very good in good dust jacket. very good in a good jacket, moderate shelfwear and scrapes to the jacket, small smudge to endpaper no priority due to weight.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Light shelf wear and a few tiny ink stains to cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice copy.

Softcover. Condición: Very good condition. 94 pp. Egyptian Bookshelf. Softcover.

Softcover. Condición: Very good condition. 96 pp. Egyptian Bookshelf. Softcover.

Softcover. Condición: Very good condition. 143 pp. Softcover.

Soft Cover Full Gloss. Condición: As New. No Jacket. ### Linear B and Related Scripts - Reading the Past - 1995 ### ~#~ Linear B and related scripts: Long before Homer a script was in use in Greece which is quite unrelated to the alphabet. The kings of Mycenaean Greece kept their accounts on clay tablets written in a script now known as Minoan Linear B. In 1952 this was deciphered and shown to conceal an early form of the Greek language. This book tells the story of how Linear B was discovered, deciphered, and interpreted, so that we can now read the administrative documents of these small prehistoric states. Two related scripts are also discussed: Linear A, the forerunner of Linear B, but used for a language which is still unknown, and a Cypriot script which, borrowed from Linear A, is equally enigmatic. Many interpretations have been put forward for these scripts but until more tablets are discovered their mystery will remain unsolved. ~#~ THIS BOOK: A New book, with plenty of drawings and symbols to keep you interested. Nice clean book full of interesting data. #### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. Due to the recent price increase by the British Postal Service, to be fair to you and me, PLEASE contact me for a shipping quotation. As you know, books are not all the same size, weight, value, and sometimes in multiple volumes. FREE SHIPPING IS ONLY WITHIN THE U.K ####. No Author signature.

Soft Cover Full Gloss. Condición: New. No Jacket. ### Maya Glyphs - Reading the Past - 1996 ### ~#~ Maya glyphic writing is one of the most complex scripts ever devised. AD 250 until well after the Spanish conquest Maya Indians of Mexico and Central America used elaborate pictorial signs to record ideas, words and syllables. This book surveys the discovery and partial decipherment of glyphic writing and introduces the reader to the media on which glyphs are recorded. It explains the underlying principles of Maya writing, including its grammar, before reviewing how decipherments have dramatically enhanced our understanding of ancient Maya civilisation. ~#~ THIS BOOK: A New book, with plenty of drawings and symbols to keep you interested. Nice clean book full of interesting data and samples #### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. Due to the recent price increase by the British Postal Service, to be fair to you and me, PLEASE contact me for a shipping quotation. As you know, books are not all the same size, weight, value, and sometimes in multiple volumes. FREE SHIPPING IS ONLY WITHIN THE U.K ####. No Author signature.

Soft Cover Full Gloss. Condición: As New. No Jacket. ### Who Were The Pharaohs? - A History of their names with a list of Cartouches - 1996 ### ~#~ In ancient Egypt the name did not merely label a person or thing, it formed a profound element of identity itself. Names of kings carried particular force, because the king of Egypt acted as earthly counterpart to the sun-god. At his accession to the throne Pharaoh took five fixed titles to express his divine power. One of these titles introduced the name he had held from birth, while the other four titles stood with four names newly composed for the royal coronation. With the help of ancient hieroglyphic texts and recent research, this book traces the evolution of the royal names from their genesis at the dawn of Egyptian writing c. 3000 BC, across Pharaonic history, to their use under the Roman Emperors who ruled and built Egypt. ~#~ THIS BOOK: As New book, with plenty of cartouches and symbols to keep you interested. Nice clean book full of interesting data. #### INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Please Note. Due to the recent price increase by the British Postal Service, to be fair to you and me, PLEASE contact me for a shipping quotation. As you know, books are not all the same size, weight, value, and sometimes in multiple volumes. FREE SHIPPING IS ONLY WITHIN THE U.K ####. No Author signature.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. 208 pp. Dustjacket.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Magazine. The British Museum. Magazine. Austumn 2015. Issue 82. Contents: Editorial Insight. News. Digital Media/Research News. Acquisitions. Gifts From the Past. Around Great Britain. Across the World. Diary. The Mystery of the Celts. Subtiety of Delicate Lines. Running Riot. A Boost to Morale. Stepping Out. Faith of a Minority. Characters From Life. Artist to Artist. Quid pro quo. Festival Celenrations. Conversations in Cuneiform. Books. Special Offers. Curator's Choice. Illustrated. 64 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Softcover. Condición: Fine+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. This book is in excellent condition & very clean. There is no writing, no highlighting, and no marks inside. ; None; 9.2 X 6.5 X 1.5 inches; 397 pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Paperback Printing. Paperback Disease (egyptian Bookshelf ) Published for the trustees of the british Museum by The British Museum Press,112 pp., eight color photos, b/w photo and drawings, chronological table, bibliography, index An exploration of what we can discover about disease and medicine in Ancient Egypt on the basis of forensic examinations performed on mummified bodies and bones recovered from non-royal grave sites.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 96 pp.with map, 12 B/W and 133 full-colour illustrations. Catalogue fom an exhibition held at the British Museum from June 13 to December 1, 2002. Record of a unique archive of work created by Vietnamese artists who created these images of war from behind the lines. "Some of the artists were engaged in the creation of propaganda material for the government and others were recording the war, but some were simply exercising their creative talents for the sheer pleasure of it.".

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Fifth Impression. Paperback The Bible in the British Museum :interpreting the Evidence 112pp illustrated throughout with Black and white photos line drawings and biblical index a nice tight clean copy with a sunned spine .The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of archaeologists and biblical scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible. The British Museum's collections include numerous inscribed objects, scripts and pictorial reliefs which provide such evidence. There is, for example, a Babylonian clay tablet which records Nebuchadnezzar's siege of Jerusalem in 597 BC, as narrated in the book of Jeremiah. For this book the author has selected over seventy such 'documents', mainly from Western Asia, with some examples included from Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor, dating from the period of the Patriarchs to the New Testament times, c. 2000 BC to c. AD 100. He transliterates and translates the ancient texts, which include Cuneiform, Aramaic and Hebrew, and discusses the contribution they make to our knowledge of the culture and history of biblical times.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Softcover. 160 pp. Softcover. Good condition; touches of wear on covers, including small losses in paper surface and some creasing; slightly faded pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 2nd Impression. Paperback MesopotamiaPrinted for the trustees of the british museum 72pp illustrated throughout. spine sunnedIllustrated from the collections of the British Museum, the 2nd revised edition explores the history of ancient Mesopotamia from prehistoric times to the rise of Babylon before 1500 BC and draws together the diverse stories of the ebb and flow in the fortunes of the Assyrians, Akkadians, Sumerians and other inhabitants of the region The foundations of western civilization were laid by the ancient societies which flourished in Mesopotamia, a land known as the "fertile crescent", through which flow the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This area saw some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life. Using the evidence of archaeology and ancient texts, the author of this text explores the history of ancient Mesopotamia from Pehistoric times to the rise of Babylon before 1500BC (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Love and Marriage. The British Museum.This colourfully illustrated book showcases satirical prints on the themes of love and marriage from the collection of the British Museum, many of which have never been published before. While revealing some attitudes and social customs that now seem alien to us, the works featur ed in this collection will strike familiar chords in the readers at any age of a relationship. With 50 colour illustrations. 96 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Madagascar. Island of the Ancestors. Tiny nip to spine. The richness of Malagasy culture is as unexpected as its unique animal and plant life. Although the island lies only 250 miles from the African mainland, the language has close connections with Indonesia, the music and weaving follow African and Asian traditions, and Arab influence is evident in areas such as astrology. There are eighteen officialy recognised ethnic groups and many dialects. In 1984-5 John Mack undertook extensive fieldwork in Madagascar and collected fine examples of the art and craft of this fascinating island. In this introduction to Malagasy life and history he explores the diverse elements from which a distinctive culture has emerged and examines in particular the significance of ancestral practice and the fundamental relation the Malagasy see between the living and the dead. Jean-Amie Rakotoarisoa of the University of Madagascar has contribtued a foreword. With 11 colour and 78 black and white illustrations. 96 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Flowers In Art. Since ancient times artists have conveyed their own delight in flowers through paintings, drawings and prints. This book illustrates the development of floral art - except for oil painting - from the early manuscripts of the Byzantine Empire through the exquisite paintings of the Chinese Sung Dynasty court, the scientific drawings of Europe, the ravishing miniatures of Persia and India, woodblock printing in China and Japan, to the splendours of engracing and lithography in Western Europe. 54 colour plates, 133 black-and-white illustrations. 150 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Soft cover. Condición: Good. In Good Condition. With Creases Front And Back Wear And Tear To Edges. A Very Well Used Book. Name Inside Front Cover. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. "A Handsome Addition To The Recent Literature On This Mexican Phenomenon. The Photographs Are Magnificent. This Volume Makes A Valuable Contribution To The Study Of Both Mexican Popular Culture And The Folk Art It Has Produced. It May Also Be Timely, As One Of The Interviewees Laments The Way U.S. Halloween Customs Are Supplanting Some Of The Traditional Celebrations In Urban Centers Such As Monterrey And The Federal District." Hispanic American Historical Review All Over Mexico, Early In November, Families Gather To Welcome The Souls Of The Dead On Their Annual Visit Home. The Smells Of Burning Copal Incense And Pungent Cempasúchil (Marigolds) Mingle With The Aromas Of Fresh Bread, New Clothing, Sweets, And Candles. One Of Mexico's Most Important Festivals Since Prehispanic Times, The Day Of The Dead Is An Occasion For Celebrating And Feasting, Cleaning And Decorating Graves, Dancing And Making Music. In This Unique Work, The Authors Explore Both The Historic Origins Of This Holiday And Its Colorful Present-Day Celebrations In Mexico And The United States. Interviews With Mexican Artists And Crafters Who Provide Goods For The Festival From Personalized Sugar Skulls To Gigantic Papier-Mâché Skeletons Offer A Fascinating Glimpse Into Traditional And Contemporary Attitudes Toward Death And The Dead. Lavishly Illustrated With Color And Black-And-White Photographs, The Skeleton At The Feast Will Be Required Reading For All Who Are Interested In Mexican Culture, Art, And Folklore.

Softcover. Condición: Very good condition. 256 pp. This book is published to accompany the exhibition, "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict" at the British Museum in London, 24 July to 26 October 2008. Softcover.

Hardcover. black board w/ gilt spine printing. 128 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy black pictorial dustjacket. Beautiful, bright illustrations. Details 100 artists w/ detailed annotations. VG+. pgs clean. dustjacket has light shelf; foxing to interior.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. First published in Great Britain in 2009. This is the first paperback edition. Printed and presumed bound in Italy. Full-pictorial heavy-duty paper binding, with crisp lettering to the front board and spine. An exceptionally clean binding. Unbumped spine head and tail, and sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. 11.5 x 9 inches. 274 numbered pages. With 240 illustrations, almost all in full color. Very clean and tight interior. Almost certainly unread. A Fine copy. 3 lbs. 3 oz. The title is a bit of a misnomer; Persia was not known as Iran until 1935. Iran is indeed the name of the country in Persian; "Iran" is a cognate of "Aryan" and derived from it. Shah 'Abbas I was one of Persia's most influential leaders. He left a far-reaching mark on the society and artistic heritage of Persia.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprinted with Revisions. Money: A History Paperback illustrated throughout with colour photos Published for the trustees of the British Museum Reprinted with Revisions Profusely illustrated, compact history of money, written by curators in the British Museum's department of coins and medalsThis book was published to accompany the British Museum's HSBC Money Gallery, opened on January 30, 1997.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).