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Sir Mortimer Wheeler.
Alms for Oblivion: An Antiquary’s Scrapbook.

Published London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 142×219×18mm.
Page count: 175pp plus 4 monochrome plates.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is missing, boards a bit worn on the edges & corners.


This item £6.00
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within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 354g.

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A selection of papers and lectures, no medieval emphasis; contains:
Those two cultures;
The virtue of intolerance;
Archaeology & the transmission of ideas;
Archaeology of the Roman provinces & beyond;
What matters in archaeology?;
Adventure & Flinders Petrie;
Aspects of the ascent of a civilization;
O. G. S. Crawford;
Size & Baalbek;
A near miss;
A curiosity — Richard Burton’s Kasidah.


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