History Unearthed : A Survey of Eighteen Archeological Sites Throughout the World

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1958.* Pub: Ernest Benn Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth covered boards with small, black title to spine strip and none to face. No bumps, minor rubs, some slight fading. Small Dewey number in white to spine. VG* Jacket condition: Heavily worn dust wrapper in clear un-attached protective cover. Photo-illustrated with a black and white picture of a mosaic "The Standard of Ur." Not Price clipped showing a shelf price of 30s. net. ACC* Contents condition: Ex school library copy with using stamps and labels. Slight marks to end papers otherwise clean, crisp, tight and bright with no some slight reading wear, no tanning or other visible faults. All edges slightly age darkened. VG* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 178 pp. text. vii pp. bibliography & blank pages at rear.* Description: Sir Leonard Woolley's new book is a survey of eighteen archaeological sites throughout the world ? Nimrud, Troy and Mycenae, Maiden Castle, Piedras Negras, Sutton Hoo etc. With the generous co-operation of the archaeologists concerned it has been possible to show in a series of superb photographs the work on these sites and also some of the magnificent finds they made. Although primarily designed for the many thousands of "week-end archaeologists", who will be able to see the methods used in some of the most interesting digs of the last hundred years, and how the archaeologist sets about their work.* A NEAR VG+ ex school-library text copy with some age and considerable jacket faults reducing it to ACC.*