Bactrian Gold: From the Excavations of the Tillya-Tepe Necropolis in Northern Afghanistan
by Sarianidi, Victor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers. Bound in brown cloth, with gilt Ibex on front board and gilt lettering to spine. This hardcover First Edition is VG in VG wrapper. 259 pp including vast collection of colour and B/W plates. Size 14" x 10" the book details the excavations and 20,000 gold objects, mainly jewellry, discovered by the Afgan-Soviet archaeological expedition 1978-9. Two silk bookmarks attached, printed on good art paper, clean endpapers, wrapper has tiny creases/wear; general condition all VG . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1985.
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- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001984
- Title
- Bactrian Gold: From the Excavations of the Tillya-Tepe Necropolis in Northern Afghanistan
- Author
- Sarianidi, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Aurora Art Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Leningrad
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- BACTRIAN GOLD, VICTOR SARIANIDI, EXCAVATIONS IN AFGANISTAN, ARCHAEOLOGY SHIBARGAN, BRONZE AGE GOLD JEWELLRY, AURORA ART PUBLISHERS, AFGAN-SOVIET ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION 1978-9,
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About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
Biblio member since 2009
Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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