Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1979], 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 177 pp. Bound in rich green leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine. Textblock in gilt with burnt orange decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers.Translated from the Greek by E.D.A. Morshead. With an introduction by Rex Warner. Illustrated by... More about The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, The Furies
Oxonii (Oxford): E Typographeo Academico (at the University Press), 1832. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 324 pp. Bound in contemporary smooth calf, spine in six compartments. Front and rear board stamped in gilt, with a bust of (presumably Dindorf) on the front board and bottom compartment of the spine. Edges of... More about Aeschyli Tragoediae Superstites et Deperditarum Fragmenta [=The Remaining Tragedies of Aeschylus...
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1978), 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 129 pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on front jacket flap. The Oresteia is a trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies consisting of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers (here: Orestes), and The Eumenides... More about The Oresteia of Aeschylus
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1979], 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 130 pp. Bound in brown leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine. Textblock in gilt with pastel pink decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers. A new version written by Munro Leaf with illustrations by Robert Lawson. More about Aesop's Fables
Berkeley: University of California Press [1999], 1999. First printing. Hardcover. 409 pp. Frontispiece, 4 maps, 53 black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. More about Finding The Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik; From Their Rise to...
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 296 pp. Includes several black and white photographs, a fold-out chronology of the Bronze Age, an index, and a bibliography. Photographs by Alison Frantz. Introduction by Sir Maurice Bowra. A very near Fine book with very slight fading to... More about From the Silent Earth: A Report on the Greek Bronze Age
New York: Routledge (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 342 pp. 6 maps, numerous tables and figures, bibliography and index. The first printing of the first edition. A sharp copy of this history of the Roman Imperial period. More about Aspects of Roman History, AD 14 - 170
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1979], 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 62 pp. Bound in rich green leather with birds embossed in gilt decorating the boards and the spine. Textblock in gilt with brown decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers. Introduction by Dudley Fitts and illustrations by Marian Parry. The Frogs is translated... More about The Birds; The Frogs
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 429 pp. Edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson. Number 180 in the Loeb Classical Library. A Very near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket with a few hints of edge wear. More about Frogs, Assemblywomen, Wealth
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
Berkeley, CA: The University Of California Press (1986), 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 264 pp. Includes an index, several maps, black and white photographs, and a few color photographs. A Fine book in a Near Fine jacket with mild fading to the spine panel and a few hints of edge wear. More about Egypt after the Pharaohs; 332 BC-AD 642 from Alexander to the Arab Conquest
Secaucus, New Jersey: University Books, N.D. Reprint. Hardcover. 234 pp. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes several black and white illustrations of hieroglyphs and ceremonial practices in Egyptian Magic. This is a later edition of Budge's published work on Egyptian Magic (the true first... More about Egyptian Magic
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 144 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. 21 color plates, 115 black and white illustrations, bibliography and index. More about The Warring States of Greece; From Their Rise to the Roman Conquest
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,...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. 552 pp. Number 319 in the Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Earnest Cary. Small date stamp on title page, else Fine in very near Fine jacket. More about The Roman Antiquities Books I-II
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 200 pp. Price of $6.50 on the front flap of dust jacket. Volume thirty-nine of Sather Classical Lectures. A Near Fine book with some slight bumping to the top edges of the boards; dust jacket is Near Fine with a few... More about Lysias and the Corpus Lysiacum
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 208 pp. Price of $3.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes a bibliography and an index. Traces of foxing to endpapers and pastedowns; small tear to front panel of jacket, edge wear and light rubbing, mild fading to spine panel. More about King of Pontus; The Life of Mithradates Eupator
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1980], 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. 177 pp. Bound in navy grey leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine. Textblock in gilt with burnt orange decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers. Translated by Philip Vellacott. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. More about Medea; Hippolytus; The Bacchae
Cabin John, Maryland: Seven Locks Press [1986], 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 171 pp. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes an index, a bibliography, and an appendix. Illustrated with fifty-three line drawings by Katharine Evans. Just about Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket... More about Soldiers of Rome: Praetorians and Legionnaires
New York: Random House [2006], 2006. First printing. Hardcover. 377 pp. Price of $26.95 on front flap of jacket. More about Augustus; The Life of Rome's First Emperor
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1982], 1982. First printing. Hardcover. 319 pp. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes an index, notes, and a bibliography. A Near Fine book with minor remnants from a bookplate removal on the front pastedown and minor warping to the rear board in... More about From Alexander to Cleopatra
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. More about The Rise of the Greeks
New York: W. W. Norton & Company [2011], 2011. First printing. Hardcover. 356 pp. Price of $26.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes several color photographs, notes, and an index. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and theNational Book Award. A Near Fine book with a few hints... More about The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Second edition. Hardcover. 318 pp. Collected and arranged by A.H.J. Greenidge and A.M. Clay. Revised by E.W. Gray. Text is in Greek, Latin, and English. Includes an index. Two tiny spots of offsetting to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers, else Very near Fine. More about Sources for Roman History: 133-70 B.C