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Alain Schnapp.
The Discovery of the Past: The Origins of Archaeology.

Published London: British Museum Press, 1996 (previously issued in French, 1993).
ISBN 0714117684.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 190×260×34mm.
Page count: 384pp, illustrated throughout (some colour).
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good.


This item £10.00
P&P inc.
within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 1423g.

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No particular medieval emphasis, but does include a chapter on ancient & medieval sources: “explores the ways in which mankind, from antiquity to the nineteenth century, became conscious of its past”.


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