Archaeology from Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art

Napoli, Italy: Negenborn & Bokwinkel, 1890. Bound in red linen covered flexible boards. There are 8 pages, each with an original color lithograph. Italian painter Geramia Discanno (1839-1907) spent years reproducing the frescoes of ancient Pompeii. The eight color lithographs in this book beautifully represent a portion of that effort. The book is in about very… Read more about this item

Oxford and Philadelphia: Trustees of the British Museum and The Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 1934. Part 1 (Text): xx, 604 pages + color frontispiece and 3 folding plates; Part 2 (Plates): xiii pages + color frontispiece and 274 plates (4 folding and 35 in full color). First printing of the first edition. Bound in the original… Read more about this item

Austin, Texas: The University of Texas at Austin, 1984. Limited edition: #487 of 1,000 copies printed. Part III is a hardcover portfolio case containing the eight (8) folding RICA [Research in Campanian Archaeology] maps of the ancient city of Pompeii, printed on Polyart paper by Aziende Tipolitografiche Eredi Dott. G. Bardi in December 1984. Part III-A, published in… Read more about this item

London: The British Museum, 1912. xxx, 99 pages of text; 116 black and white plates. Folio. Bound in original full red cloth. Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum and sold by The British Museum, Longmans & Co, Bernard Quaritch, Asher and Co., and Henry Frowde. Explanation, analysis, and reproduction of the funerary… Read more about this item

London: School of Archaeology in Egypt / Bernard Quaritch, 1915. vii, 38 pages + 62 plates, many folding. Folio. First edition. Riqqeh and Memphis VI is one of a series of books published to report the findings of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt. Much of the work was performed by Reginald Engelbach, an engineer… Read more about this item