Including many books from the library of the eminent archaeologist, Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) a number with his bookplate, name-stamp or signature. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
Unpublished. Carbon copy thesis illustrated with maps and mounted photographic plates of Spindle Whorls, line drawings. Folio (12 x 8 inches), 27-pages of text. Card covers, spiral bound. With the stamp of the University of London Institute of Archaeology.
£15.00
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Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt am Main, 1985. Profusely illustrated. Square 8vo (8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 388-pages. Original pictorial boards; a little edge rubbed else very good. Text in German. Weight 1.313 kg thus extra overses postage will be requested.
Enquire - please quote Item No. 21271
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1944. 63 plates on 32 leaves, plan. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches), pages: xi:101. All loose in portfolio as issued. The portfolio original cloth-backed printed boards with ties. Portfolio browned, internally very good.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his bookplate. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£95.00
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London: John Russell Smith, 1847. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 18 plates. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 204-pages, original blindstamped fine ribbed green cloth; headband worn, foxing and pale damp tide mark to the plates.
£15.00
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John Russell Smith, London, 1856, Illustrations. 8vo (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches), 496-pages plus unpaginated publisher's catalogue. Original green blindstamped pebble grain cloth. Headbands bruised, crack at one inner gutter, overall very good. Armorial bookplate of James Comerford.
£60.00
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Capo di Ponte: Edizioni del Centro, 1987. Plates, some coloured, illustrations. Folio (11 1/4 x 8 inches), 240-pages. Original coloured printed wrappers; very good in like dustwrapper. With the author's calling card loosely inserted, this inscribed by the author "With cordial regards and best wishes".
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011). He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£20.00
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London: Archaeological Institute of Great Britain, 1863. Plates & plans, some folding.. 8vo, pp.viii:422, contemporary half red morocco, marbled boards, sipne gilt, all edges gilt; joints, headbands and corners rubbed, binding otherwise sound.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 8837
George Allen & Unwin, 1931. First English edition. 9vo ( 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 734-pages. Original blue grained cloth in the dust jacket. The dust jacket now browned and edge worn but it has done a wonderful job in preserving the cloth binding which remains very good indeed; also very good internally.
£495.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22646
Kobenhavn: 1947. Plates. 4to (10 x 7 1/4 inches), pages: 318:xviii (summary in English), original printed wrappers. Upper wrapper chipped torn and partly detached. Inscribed by Becker to John D. Evans.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp on upper wrapper. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13151
Bucuresti: Editura Stiintifica, 1970. Plates, 4 coloured. 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 239-pages, original cloth in chipped dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to J. D. Evans.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp on front free endpaper. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13148
R. E. Owen, Wellington, N. Z, 1952. 3rd Impression. Coloured frontispiece, plates & illustrations. 8vo (8 7/8 x 6 inches), 296-pages. Original cloth titled in gilt; very bright in good but edgeworn dust jacket.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22084
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1963. First edition. Plates, 5 folding in endpocket. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 inches), original blue cloth; headband bumpred else good.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his bookplate. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12166
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1972. First edition. Illustrations. Folding map in end-sleeve. 4to (11 1/2 x 8 inches), original cloth; very good indeed in slightly edge creased/rubbed dustwrapper which has a 2 inch tear to lower panel.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his bookplate. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£58.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12165
Amsterdam: B. R. Gruner, 1986. Plates. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 1/4), 356-pages. Original blue grained wrappers; wrappers edge rubbed and with short corner crease; generally good.
£46.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12483
Lund: Being Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, 1968. Plates. Folio (12 x 8 3/4 inches), 122-pages. Original red printed wrappers. Backstrip sunned, light crease to lower fore-corner of upper wrapper and prelims.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp on upper wrapper. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12176
University of Chicago Press, 1994. Portrait. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), pages: 390:254. Original blue cloth; very good.
£12.00
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Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1919. Folding maps, plans. 8vo 99 1/4 X 5 3/4 inches), 658-pages. Binder's green grained cloth, unlettered, Old inscription on front flyleaf
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20766
Macmillan, London, 1874. First edition. Coloured frontispiece and numerous woodcuts in the text. 8vo (9 x 6 1/4 inches). 455-pages. Original brown cloth blocked in black & gilt and pictorially in silver, top edge gilt. Some foxing to frontispiece otherwise a very good copy indeed.
£165.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22642
London: Ernest Benn, 1972. First edition. Illustrations. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 387-pages. Original cloth; very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper which has fading to the spine.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his bookplate. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12027
Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art, 1980. Exhibition catalogue. Well illustrated, partly in colour. Softback (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), 224-pages. Wrappers a little edge worn. Text in English & Japanese.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) inscribed to him on half title by Christos Doumas. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13129
Peshawar: Centre of Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, circa 1979. Diagrams. 8vo (9 1/2 x 7 inches). Softback. 55-pages; wrappers little rubbed and marked. Signed and dated by the author.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp on title. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12037
London: Longmans, Green, 1881. First edition. Numerous illustrations throughout. 8vo ( 9 1/2 x 6 inches), 509-pages. original green cloth, ruled in black to sides enclosing a gilt blocked Celt. Headbands bruised, otherwise a very bright and fresh copy of this rare work. A little foxing to prelims. otherwise internally very clean indeed.
£160.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16650
Milan: Saggiatore, 1982. Reprint. Plates & illustrations. 8vo, 263-pages. Original cloth; text age-toned otherwise good in slightly torn and creased dustwrapper.
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12083
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1880. 8 coloured plates. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches), pages: 612:8(advertisements). Contemporary quarter crimson morocco, blindstamped cloth boards, all edges gilt. Gilt to spine dulled, corners rubbed; generally very good. Armorial bookplate.
£55.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12015
Prague: Academie Tchecoslovaque des Sciences, 1966. Plates, some coloured. 8vo (9 3/3 x 6 3/4), 306-pages. Original cloth gilt.
£14.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13130
Firenze: Sansoni, 1973. First edition. 191-plates. Large 8vo (9 1/2 x 7 inches), 203-pages (text). Original cloth; very good in like very very lightly spotted dustwrapper which is rubbed to top margin.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his bookplate. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£36.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12091
Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1970. Plates & illustrations. 8vo (9 1/2 x 7 inches), 141-pages. Original printed wrappers; very good.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12161
Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1982. 41 plates, 1 folding, plans. Folio (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches), 216-pages. Original pictorial printed wrappers; one fore-corner a little bumped else very good indeed.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12195
Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1969. Illustrations. 8vo (9 1/2 x 7 inches), 164-pages. Original printed wrappers; very good.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12159
Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1966. Plates &illustrations. 8vo (9 1/2 x 7 inches), 107-pages. Original printed wrappers; very good.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12160
Hachette, Paris. 1885. 8vo (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches), 365-pages plus publisher's catalogue. Illustrations in the text. Original black grained cloth blocked in blind and gilt; binding dulled.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20715
In association with Allen & Unwin, 1986. Folio (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), original printed wrappers; very good.
£48.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12298
Stone Seeker, Wiltshire, 2011. First edition. Illustrations. Paperback 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches), 233-pages. Original coloured pictorial glazed wrappers. Inscribed by the author. Fine. £30.00
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22808
Oxford: B.A.R. (British Archaeological Reports), 1979. Maps (one folding), diagrams. Folio (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), 238-pages. Original printed red wrappers; very good.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12170
Helsingissa: Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava, 1948. Illustrations. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 174-pages, original boards in edge rubbed browned dustwrapper, endpapers browned else good. From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his bookplate. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13150
Rome: Instituto per L'Oriente, 1979. Plans, two folding. Folio (11 x 7 3/4 inches), 92-pages. Original printed cream wrappers.; good.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp on upper wrapper. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£55.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12211
Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, 1974. First edition. Plates. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 inches), 270-pages. Original cloth, good in edge rubbed dustwrapper which has a band of fading. Inscribed and signed by the author on title.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp on front free endpaper. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12489
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957. Second Printing. Folding plates. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 inches), 65-pages. Softback. Original orange wrappers; some edge and backstrip fading.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp on upper wrapper. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12055
Goteborg: Paul Astroms, 1985. Numerous plates. Folio (12 x 8 3/4 inches), 337-pages. Original red printed wrappers; backstrip sunned else very good indeed. Inscription on title, "To Professor J.D. Evans with deep gratitude London 20-4-86" signed with illegible initials (the author?).
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011). He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£65.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12167
London: Duckworth, 1978. First edition. Maps. 8vo (10 x 6 1/4 inches), 411-pages. Original cloth; very good in spine faded otherwise good dustwrapper.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12637
I. B. Tauris, London, 1999. Beautifully illustrated throughout in colour. Folio (12 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches). 256-pages. Original cream cloth blocked in gilt. Fine in excellent dust jacket.
£13.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20844
Fasano di Puglia: 1967. 29 plates. 8vo, 24-pages; original pictorial wrappers; wrappers edge rubbed.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp on half-title. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13144
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1959. First edition. Numerous plates and line drawings. Folio (12 x 8 3/4 inches), original grey cloth gilt lettered on black panel gilt; a very good copy. Bookplate of John Evans glue spotted and offset to front free endpaper.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his bookplate. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£225.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12223
Witherby, London, 1930. First edition. Plates. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 192-pages. Original black cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt. Contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper. Some scattered marginal foxing and to edge of text block but overall a very good and bright copy.
Enquire - please quote Item No.22574
Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1936. First edition Numerous illustrations. 4to (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches), 428-pages. Original cloth. Ex University of London Library with label to upper cover. Binding very rubbed but internally very good and free from other library markings. Last leaf and folding plate detached but present, inner hinges cracked.
Weight 2.830 kg thus extra postage will be requested.
£85.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19671
Prague: Archaeological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1986. Plates. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 357-pages. Softback. Original yellow wrappers, Title added in ink to backstrip; good.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12638
Rome: The International Union of Institutes of Archaeology History and History of Art in Rome, 1960. Photographic plates. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches), 26-pages plus plates. Softback, original wrappers.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his name stamp. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12071
Los Angeles: The Institute of Archaeology, The University of California, 1976. 17 plates. 4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 71-pages. Original 2-tone cloth; a very good copy indeed in the slightly marked printed white dustwrapper.
£100.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12115
London: Simpkin Marshall, Bath: R. E. Peach, 1864. First edition. Plates, one folding and large hand-coloured folding map showing the Roman roads, villas etc. within 7 miles of Bath. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), page: 13:137:(3; list of subscribers), original maroon fine pebble-grained cloth blocked in blind and gilt. Short marginal tear to folding map with no loss. Binding a trifle spotted but overall excellent; some foxing within, more so to prelims. Overall a very good copy indeed.
£75.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16452
Warsaw: Polska Akademia Nauk, 1980. Illustrations. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 233-pages. Softback; one corner a little bumped; generally good.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12072
Tallinn: Perioodika, 1984. Plates. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), 179-pages. Original boards; upper joints partly chipped. With Dr. Selirand's inscribed visiting card loosely inserted.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12642
Allahabad: University of Allahabad, 1980. Plates. 4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 120-pages. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers marked and slightly creased. Inscribed to "Professor John Evans with Warm Regards".
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011). He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12164
Salisbury 1914. Plates and illustrations. 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches), original printed wrappers. Wrappers marked and rubbed, 2-inch split to backstrip, internally good. Includes "Excavation on a Roman Villa site near East Grimstead" pages 14-21 by Heywood Sumner with a double-page plate.
£18.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22473
Lund: Institue of Archaeology, University of Lund, CWK Gleerup, 1981. Illustrations, maps. Folio (12 x 8 1/4 inches), 136-pages. Original printed grey boards. A few scuff marks to upper board, corners bumped but generally very good. Inscribed by Stjernquist "Professor John Evans with best wishes".
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011). He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12210
Prague: Jan Stenc, 1924. Title vignette & 50 plates. 8vo (8 x 6 inches), 3-pages (text) plus the 50 plates. Original printed boards; boards browned else good. Name stamp on front pastedown.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13159
Munksgaard, 1965. Illustrations throughout, folding map in endpocket. 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches), 208-pages, original blue cloth; very good. Author's visiting card enclosed in envelope addressed to Prof. J. D. Evans loosely inserted.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011). He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13135
Harper Collins, 2019. First Edition Plates, some coloured. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 365-pages. Original coth-backed boards; virtually fine in like dust jacket.
£16.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 22013
Nitra: 1969. Illustrations, folding plan. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches), 599-pages, original cloth; good. £20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13146
Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo & Bizzarri, 1978. Plates, 2 folding tables. 8vo (10 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches), pages: 40:46(plates), original cloth; very good in faded dustwrapper. The main body of the text is in English.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13136
Groningen: J. B. Wolters, 1958. Pub. 1958/1959. Plates, some folding, illustrations. Large 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches), softback. 232-pages. One folding plate very slightly worn on margin else very good.
From the library of the eminent archaeologist Professor John Davies Evans (1925-2011) with his bookplate. He was director of the Institute of Archaeology (now part of University College, London) from 1973 to 1989; renowned especially for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, particularly the prehistoric cultures of Malta.
£21.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13137
Macmillan, London, 1915. First edition. Plates & maps. 8vo ( 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches ) pages: 462:(4), original burgundy cloth. Splits to cloth of outer upper joint; firm however. Spine dulled.
£32.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 20989