oliver robert gurney (18 risultati)

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 160 pages. Christina Johnson, Richard Madelin, Frank Downes (stories) / Stephen Spender, Manohar Shetty, Stephen Woodward, Oliver Comins, Vernon Scannell, Nicky Rice, Louis Simpson, Michael O'Neill, Robert Crawford, Roy Fuller, Jogn Gurney, Lawrence Dale, Paul Groves, Davild Gill, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, David Holbrook (poems) / Michael Pearson / James Campbell / Brigid Allen.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Previous owner's inscription. Physical description: xvi, 240 pages, 32 p of plates ill 19cm. Contents: Foreword to first edition -- Note on the spelling of proper names -- Introduction: Discovery of the Hittites: -- Outline Of History: -- Earliest period -- Old Kingdom -- Empire -- Neo-Hittite Kingdoms -- Achaeans and Trojans in the Hittite texts -- Hittites in Palestine -- Hittite State And Society: -- King -- Queen -- Social classes -- Government -- Foreign policy -- Life And Economy: -- Law And Institutions: -- Laws -- Courts -- Retribution and restitution -- Collective responsibility -- Marriage and the family -- Land tenure -- Warfare: -- Army -- Military operations -- Defence -- Laws of war -- Languages And Races: -- Written languages -- Hittite -- Proto-Hittite or Hattian -- Luwian -- Palaic -- Hurrian -- Aryan language of the rulers of Mitanni -- Akkadian -- Sumerian -- Hieroglyphic Hittite -- Spoken languages -- Religion: -- General remarks -- Local cults -- State religion -- Temples, cults, and festivals -- Theology and divination -- Magic -- Burial customs -- Literature: -- Official literature -- Myth, legend, and romance -- Art: -- Conclusion -- Table of Hittite Kings -- Select bibliography -- Index. Subjects: Turkey Antiquities. Asia Minor Civilization. Turkey Antiquities. 1 Kg.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Previous owner's inscription. Physical description: xvi, 240 pages, 32 p of plates ill 19cm. Contents: Foreword to first edition -- Note on the spelling of proper names -- Introduction: Discovery of the Hittites: -- Outline Of History: -- Earliest period -- Old Kingdom -- Empire -- Neo-Hittite Kingdoms -- Achaeans and Trojans in the Hittite texts -- Hittites in Palestine -- Hittite State And Society: -- King -- Queen -- Social classes -- Government -- Foreign policy -- Life And Economy: -- Law And Institutions: -- Laws -- Courts -- Retribution and restitution -- Collective responsibility -- Marriage and the family -- Land tenure -- Warfare: -- Army -- Military operations -- Defence -- Laws of war -- Languages And Races: -- Written languages -- Hittite -- Proto-Hittite or Hattian -- Luwian -- Palaic -- Hurrian -- Aryan language of the rulers of Mitanni -- Akkadian -- Sumerian -- Hieroglyphic Hittite -- Spoken languages -- Religion: -- General remarks -- Local cults -- State religion -- Temples, cults, and festivals -- Theology and divination -- Magic -- Burial customs -- Literature: -- Official literature -- Myth, legend, and romance -- Art: -- Conclusion -- Table of Hittite Kings -- Select bibliography -- Index. Subjects: Turkey Antiquities. Asia Minor Civilization. Turkey Antiquities. 1 Kg.

Revised Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series; Pelican books, A 259. Physical description; 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Hittites. Anatolia Indo-European. Bronze age. West Age. North. Geography. Fiction. European people. State and society. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Slipcase missing. Minor loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Third printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Slipcase missing. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Fourth printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages unmarked. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Unknown Binding. Condizione: Very Good. 1st penguin edition 1952 on blue borders with owners name.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. O. R. Gurney. The Hittites. London: The Folio Society, 2003, Seventh Printing. 240 p, slip-case measures 10.25 x 7.25\u0094, large 8vo. In good condition. Slip-case exhibits water or tea dampness staining on rear board. Slip-case normally scuffed at edges and worn\/bumped at corners. Gilt decorated binding bright and clean. Text-block clean. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Oliver Robert Gurney (1911 \u0096 2001) was an English Assyriologist from the Gurney family and a leading scholar of the Hittites. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1959 and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1963. In 1965, the University conferred on him the title of Professor. Gurney wrote the classic text on The Hittites, published by Penguin in 1952 and in print for many years. Folio Society, Seventh Printing. RAREC2003BNCV - 09\/25 - HK2682.

[London], British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1983. [IV],203 pp. 4 b./w. plts. Orig. hardcover (gilt lettered blue boards). 4to. Includes texts in transliteration with English translation, notes and commentary.

London, The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara 1957-1964. 2 vols. VI,13; VI,36 pp. 275 b./w. plts. Orig. publisher's uniform hardcover bindings (green quarter cloth), no d./j. - Spines sl. discol.; covers worn along the extrimities; few annot. on first free endpaper of vol. 1. (Ocasional Publications of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, No. 3 & 7).Complete set in two volumes: Vol. I edited by O.R. Gurney and J.J. Finkelstein. Vol. II edited by O.R. Gurney and P. Hulin. - Errata slip inserted into vol. 1.