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Νομισματικά / Numismatics
Lot. 3132 Lot. 3130 Starting Price: 19 € RICE Prudence, “Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook”, e University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2005. Paperback edition (1st in 1987), in big 8vo, p. xxiv, 559. With numerous B/W images and graphics in text. A rich and comprehensive sourcebook, PotteryAnalysis draws together diverse approaches to the study of pottery—archaeological, ethnographic, stylistic, functional, and physicochemical. e author uses pottery as a starting point for insights into people and culture and examines in detail the methods for studying these red clay vessels that have been used worldwide from prehistoric times to the present. Original so covers, illustrated. Like New.
Lot. 3131 Starting Price: 15 € MONTIGLIO Sylvia, “Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture”, e University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2005. In 8vo, p. xi, 290. From the Archaic period to the Greco-Roman age, the gure of the wanderer held great signi cance in ancient Greece. In the rst comprehensive study devoted to this theme, the author unearths the many meanings attached to this practice over the centuries, employing a broad range of literary and philosophical texts. Hardback, with publisher’s illustrated dust jacket, LIKE NEW overall.
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Lot. 3132 Starting Price: 45 € MATTINGLY Harold, “Roman Coins from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire”, Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1962. Reprint of 2nd Edition with minor corrections. In 4to, pp. 303. With 64 B/W plates. Green cloth bound, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover; minor external wear, good binding inside, few pen underlines on pages 55, 57 and 81. Very good condition overall.
Lot. 3133 Starting Price: 30 € CARSON, R. A. G., “Coins: Ancient, Mediaeval & Modern”, London: Hutchinson, 1962. In 4o, p. xiii+642+32 B/W coin plates. With 1061 mostly double-sided coin images on 64 plates in the appendix. Green original all-linen ribbon with gold-embossed spine. Very good copy.
Lot. 3134 Starting Price: 20 € SEAR R. D., “Roman Coins and eir Values”, B. A. Seaby Ltd, London, 1964. In small 8vo, p. 288+8 plates. With a frontispiece map and b/w illustrated plates throughout. Missing dust jacket. Green cloth bound, gilt title on spine. Light tanning to pages, but clean and tight. Boards have minor bumping to corners and so crushing to spine ends. Good copy.
Lot. 3135 Starting Price: 40 € FRIEDBERG Robert, “Gold Coins of the World (Second Edition) / Complete from 600 A.D. to the Present, an illustrated Standard Catalogue with Valuations”, Published by New York, e Coin and Currency Institute, Inc., 1965. In big 8vo, p. 415. Revised and edited by Jack Friedberg. Gold coin catalog from AD 600 to the present, 11,790 coin descriptions, numerous b/w images, with valuations in US dollars. Linen bound; grass green cover, black embossing, missing dust jacket. Slight signs of wear; corners slightly bumped, cover slightly rubbed, spine rather dull. Very good copy.
Lot. 3136 Starting Price: 10 € e American Numismatic Society - Museum Notes 17, New York, 1971. In 8vo, p. 261 and 49 B/W plates. With 14 essays on numismatics. Original blue cardcover, dull spine, minor cover wear. Very good copy.