The subtitle continues ...Their Artifacts, Inscriptions, and Monuments with Prices and Annotations, Both Bibliographical and Descriptive. A reference tool for the book trade, collectors, librarians, and students, cataloging books from the 18th century to 1991, with detailed bibliographical information and accurate pricing, as taken from over 200 recent catalogs from booksellers representing South Africa, Germany, Great Britain, and all parts of the US. Entries are listed alphabetically by author and also numbered. There are 7,106 separate titles described. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a branch of the humanities, including archaeology, art history, languages, literature, philosophy, and related cultural disciplines which consider the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean world, and adjacent Egypt and southwestern Asia. Chronologically the ancient world would extend from the beginning of the Bronze Age of ancient Greece (ca. 1000 BCE) to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (ca. 500 CE). This book will close the traditional subject gap between the humanities (Classical World; Egyptology) and the social sciences (anthropological archaeology; Near East) in the study of the ancient world. This book is uniquely the only bibliographic resource available for such holistic coverage. The volume consists of 17 chapters and seven appendixes, arranged according to the traditional types of library research materials (bibliographies, dictionaries, atlases, etc.). The appendixes are mostly subject specific, including graduate programs in ancient studies, reports from significant archaeological sites, numismatics, and paleography and writing systems. These extensive author and subject indexes help facilitate ease of use.
A compilation of 10,357 catalogue entries with prices and annotations. Bibliographical and descriptive. The book is based upon 200 catalogs issued by 21 dealers listing 6,651 separate titles. Duplicates reflect variant prices and editions. Entries are listed alphabetically by author and include gene
J.Norman Heard's Bookman's Guide to Americana has been a standard reference in the antiquarian book trade for almost four decades. The tenth edition, compiled by Lee Shiflett, contains price quotations for approximately 10,000 titles relating to the history, culture, and literature of the Americas. The prices quoted are derived from booksellers' catalogs issued since the ninth edition of the Guide (Heard and Hamsa, 1986). ...an essential purchase. --FINE TOOL JOURNAL ...a sound contribution to the literature. --RQ
