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Hume, Ivor Noel. A Guide to Colonial Artifacts of Colonial America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Second Printing. Cloth boards. 323 +vi pps w/index. Tall 8vo. Illustrated with charts, drawings and photos. An essential reference guide for identifying and dating artifacts found on land or from the sea. Well written, this guide is one of very few resources on the subject of colonial era artifacts. It has been used in identifying and dating artifacts recovered from shipwrecks....$35.00

Hume, Ivor Noel. Martin's Hundred. NY:Knopf 1988. Third printing. 8vo. Black boards with glossy pictorial dj.346 pages.137 b&w illus.,color panoramic views on ep's. Fine in Fine DJ. Red pen owner inscription on front end paper."A first hand account of one of the most important excavations in American historical archaeology: the discovery of a lost plantation, and the most extensive evidence we have of English colonial life in early seventeenth century Virginia...It is a marvelous account of sleuthing,suspense, and feats of deduction--the exhilirating finds, the devastating setbacks, the false trails, and the illuminating coincidences."  ...$30.00

Lehner, Ernst and Johanna. HOW THEY SAW THE NEW WORLD. A most Revealing and Wonderful collection of over 200 Rare Woodcuts and Engravings of Olde Maps, the Natives, Plants, Views, Towns and Curious Animals of the Newly Discovered Land. New York, Tudor Publishing Company. 1966. First edition. 160pp. Illustrated throughout with B/W fasimilies of plates and maps. Very good condition in slightly chipped DJ. DJ also moisture warped on back side. A collection of rare woodcuts and engravings reproduced in facsimilie form in one book. An excellent source book for reference on prints of the new world. ....$25.00

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