The Romance of Archaeology

Description

Authors: Magoffin, R.V. D. (Ralph van Deman) (1874-1942) and Davis, Emily C.  (1898-1968)

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co. (Garden City, NY)

Pub Date: 1929

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  Without dust jacket.  No tears, bends or folds.  Smudging, foxing to front and rear boards.  Lower rear corner bumped.  Smudging to bottom text block.

Notes:  Originally entitled “Magic Spades: The Romance of Archaeology” (Henry Holt, 1929).  Pan-global, pan-historical, ancient to “modern” (as of 1929).  Ancient Egypt, Near East, Greece, British Isles, northern Europe, the peopling of the New World, one chapter on “The Great Southwest”, Tropical Civilizations (Central America), South America, the Mound Builders, Eskimos, the Pacific Northwest.  Includes a chapter on worldwide museums and their “Best” archaeological objects (including one line on Santa Fe’s Museum of the School of American Research–NOT a public museum, and now known as the Indian Arts Research Center).  From the library of the late archaeologist Al Schroeder, his bookplate.