Ancient Art

First editions in English, 6 volumes, 8vo & 4to, Troy and its Remains (1875): 52 plates on 51 sheets, one folding, 3 folding maps & plans; Mycenae (1878), 21 wood-engraved and 4 chromolithographed plates, 3 folding, 8 maps & plans, 3 folding; Ilios: the City and Country of the Trojans (1880), wood-engraved frontispiece and 2 folding plates, 7 folding maps & plans; Troja (1884), 4 colour maps and plans, 3 folding; Tiryns (1886), folding frontispiece, 29 maps, plates & plans, many colour, some folding, ink inscription to head of title, with wide margins, § SCHUCHHARDT (Dr. C.) Schliemann's Excavations: an Archaeological and Historical Study (1891), half-title, 2 portraits, 4 plates, one folding, and 7 maps & plans, 4 folding. One or two leaves browned, occasional foxing, old library label to front pastedowns, uniform later half turquoise morocco, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, a fine set.

4to, edition limited to 265 (250 for sale) numbered copies signed by the author and specially bound by Zaehnsdorf; 312 pp., illustrated throughout including 75 colour photographs by F. L. Kenett, full tan morocco gilt, upper cover with scarab composed of black and green morocco onlays outlined in gilt, all edges gilt, original cream linen foldover box, a fine copy.

First edition. Folio, xii, 361, [1], pp., 41 engraved plates, some double-page, engravings in text, occasional light browning, contemporary russia, covers with wide gilt borders, spine richly gilt, a very handsome example.

First edition, 4 vols; folio (46 x 35.5 cm); 8 hand-coloured engraved titles, 4 engraved leaves of dedication, etched initials and head and tail pieces, 437 etched and engraved plates (of which 182 hand-coloured, 77 double-page or folding), last plate in Vol. III with minor worming, occasional minor spotting or offsetting, a few plates slightly shaved, text in French and English in Vols I-II, English engraved title in Vol. III with repairs to verso; handsome modern red morocco to style by Aquarius, green morocco spine labels; a fine set.

First edition; folio (58 x 42.5 cm); two title-pages, dated 1837 and 1839, engraved title, 100 plates (of which 30 are lithographic views); some spotting; contemporary red leather spine over marbled boards, spine in seven parts, corners bumped, loose joints.