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The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. London: Macmillan, 1921 7 vols. complete. 8vo., gilt-decorated blue cloth boards. First edition. With colored frontispiece. Card laid-in index reading "With the Author's Compliments"; bookplate of previous owner tipped-in front pastedown. Light wear to edges and extremes of boards and backstrip; light soiling to boards; frontispiece of vol. 1 separated; text is clean.
Estimate $ 2,000-4,000 4 vols. in 6 and index. Vol. 1 contains 8 colored plates and 7 foldout plates: Map of Crete, 13 x 16 inches, 3 folds; fig. 152, 13 x 16 inches, 3 folds; fig. 171a, 10 x 15 1/2 inches, 2 folds; fig. 183a, 10 x 12 inches, 2 folds; fig. 187b, 10 x 14 inches, 2 folds; fig. 226, 10 x 14 inches, 2 folds; fig 325 10 x 14, 2 folds. Vol. 2, part 1 contains 2 colored plates and 2 foldout plates: Diagramic map, 16 x 6 inches, 1 fold; Polychrome pottery , 10 x 13 inches, 2 folds. Vol. 2, part 2 contains 5 colored plates and 5 foldout plates: fig. 318, 10 x 16 inches, 2 folds; Plan of Knossos, 11 x 13 inches, 3 folds; plate xii, 16 x 7 inches, 1 fold; fig. 532, 10 x 14 inches, 2 folds; supplementary plate xxvi, 18 x 7 inches, 3 folds. With 3 maps tipped-in rear pastedown measuring 13 x 22 inches inches, folded to 5 x 9 inches, 14 x 27 inches, folded to 5 x 9 inches, and 18 x 22 inches folded to 5 x 9 inches. Vol. 3 contains 13 colored plates and 5 foldout plates: plate xvi, 10 x 14 inches, 2 folds; plate xviii, 16 x 18 inches, 4 folds; fig. 106, 10 x 15 inches, 2 folds; fig. 114, 10 x 14 inches, 2 folds; fig. 183, 10 x 15 inches, 2 folds; fig. 218, 10 x 10 inches, 1 fold. With 4 plans tipped-in rear pastedown measuring 12 1/2 x 16 inches folded to 6 1/4 x 8 inches, 14 1/2 x 21 inches folded to 5 x 7 inches, 15 x 20 inches folded to 6 x 8 inches, and 17 x 21 inches folded to 5 3/4 x 9 inches. Vol. 4 part 1 contains 4 colored plates and 1 plan tipped-in rear pastedown measuring 13 1/2 x 22 inches, folded to 5 1/2 x 7 inches. Vol. 4 part 2 contains 5 colored plates and 2 foldout plates: fig. 666, 10 x 19 inches, 2 folds; fig. 877, 10 x 18 inches, 2 folds. With 3 plans tipped-in rear pastedown measuring 14 x 20 inches, folded to 5 x 8 inches; 13 x 19 inches, folded to 5 x 8 inches; and 13 x 19 inches, folded to 5 x 8 inches.

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