Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. First printing. Hardcover. 310 pp. Price of $24.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes bibliography and index. A work on the peoples that the Romans colonized, and what their thoughts were on the Romans, good and bad. Name written on... More about Romans & Aliens
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1990), 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. 517 pp. Number 248 in the Loeb Classical Library. Translated by J.E. King. Concerns the ecclessiastical history of England, books IV and V, lives of the abbots and letters to Egbert. Very near Fine in a Near Fine jacket with few... More about Historical Works; II
London: Thames and Hudson (1968), 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-253, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated with eight figures and eleven tables. Professor Bickerman here lays out the available evidence needed for dating events in the ancient world. Part of... More about Chronology of the Ancient World
London: Thames and Hudson, 1957. First printing. Hardcover. 258 pp. Green cloth over boards with gold lettering on the spine and light green topstain. Price of 21s. on front flap. 78 photographs, 50 line drawings, and 7 maps. Volume 3 in Ancient Peoples and Places, General Editor Glyn Daniel. A.... More about Sicily
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. 275 pp. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white drawings and photographs. Translated from the French by Harold Ward. A Near Fine book with two tiny dog-ears to the... More about Attila: The Scourge of God
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 299 pp. Traces of foxing to textblock; a bit of creasing and a small closed tear to bottom of front panel. More about A History of the Ostrogoths
London (Londini): Excudit S. Hamilton, 1816. Later edition. Hardcover. 24mo. 468 pp. Collates as complete. Bound in beautiful straight-grained red morocco with decorations in gilt on the boards and spine (spine is in six compartments). All edges gilt. A later edition of Franz van Oudendorp's edition of De Bello Gallico... More about De Bellis Gallico et Civili Pompeiano nec non A. Hirtii Aliorumque De Bellis Alexandrino,...
Woodstock: The Overlook Press [2006], 2006. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxxvii, [1], 313, [1] pp. Quarter black paper over brown paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $30.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several maps and black and white photographs of... More about Thermopylae; The Battle that Changed the World
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1961. First printing. Hardcover. 263 pp. Black cloth over boards with light blue lettering on the spine and light blue topstain. Price of 28s. on front flap. Name written on free front endpaper, tiny area of discoloration on top textblock, number written on rear endpaper;... More about Daily Life in Carthage at the Time of Hannibal
London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, Printers to the Society of Antiquaries, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 4vo. 2vol. [1]-486 pp.; [487]-955 pp. Collates as complete, with the following collation: Vol. 1 ([a]4, b4, B-M4, N5, O4, q6, 2A-2I4, 2K3, 2Z4, 2L-2Z4, 3A-3P4, 3Q2, 3R), Vol. 2 ([A]2... More about Encyclopaedia of Antiquities; Classical and Mediaeval
London: Thames and Hudson, 1960. First printing. Hardcover. 272 pp. Navy blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on the spine and blue topstain. Price of 30s. on front flap. 73 photographs, 48 line drawings, and 20 maps. Volume 13 in Ancient Peoples and Places, General Editor Glyn Daniel. A.... More about Brittany
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1975. First printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. Very near Fine book in a price-clipped dust jacket with a small scratch to the top right corner of the front panel. More about The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient World
New York: Oxford University Press [1968], 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-504 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine and a Viking ship embossed in gold on the front board, purple topstain. Price of $9.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with... More about A History of the Vikings
Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 224 pp. A Near Fine book in a like dust jacket with a tiny spot of discoloration on the bottom of the front panel. More about Engineering in the Ancient World
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol bound in one. Large 8vo. ii-viii, [1], 4-7, [2], 10-326; [3], 2-4, [1], vi-viii, [1], 10-373, [1] pp. Each volume illustrated with a lithograph frontispiece, volume one illustrated with three folding plans, 13 woodcut figures, eleven plates (one... More about Nineveh and its Remains; With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and...
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1882. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 5 volumes: 414 pp.; 422 pp.; 452 pp.; 570 pp.; 618 pp. Bound in orange-red cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine. Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A.H. Clough. Includes an index. A beautiful set. A... More about Plutarch's Lives; The Translation Called Dryden's
London: Quercus, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. 416 pp. Price of £25 on front flap of jacket. Index, black and white and color photographs. More about The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 322 pp. Includes bibliography and index, in addition to several black and white photographs. More about Civilization Before Greece and Rome
New York: Fredrick A. Praeger, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 324 pp. Light green cloth over boards with gold lettering on the spine and brown topstain. Price of $10.00 on front flap. 66 photographs, 68 line drawings, and 23 maps. Volume 61 in Ancient Peoples and Places, General Editor Glyn Daniel... More about Spain and Portugal
London: Hutchinson University Library (1971), 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 12-240 pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £2.50 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a fold-out chronology of the region, maps, and several black and white photographs and drawings... More about Hunters, Fishers, and Farmers of Eastern Europe; 6000-3000 B.C
London: Cassell (1974), 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 209 pp. The story of four noble women who influenced the governance of Rome during the second century A.D. Oxford Classical Dictionary 777-778. A Near Fine book with faint offsetting to the endpapers in a Very Good+ dust jacket that is price-clipped and... More about The Syrian Princesses; The Women Who Ruled Rome, AD 193-235
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company [1961], 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Quarter black cloth over brown, blue, and black patterned paper boards with gold lettering and blue decoration on the spine, light blue topstain. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black... More about The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas; Aztec Maya Inca