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Alain Schnapp. 
The Discovery of the Past: The Origins of Archaeology.
London: British Museum Press, 1996 (previously issued in French, 1993).
ISBN 0714117684.
Hardback, stitch bound.
190x260x34mm.
384pp, illustrated throughout (some colour). 
English.
Good condition. 

This item £20.00
1423g. 

No particular medieval emphasis, though includes 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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