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Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990. First editions. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Four volumes. 4to. Cloth-backed boards. Illus. Checklist. Index. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. A detailed and extensively illustrated study of what it was like to live, work, and die in the ancient world, and includes consideration of such things as the role of women, religion, public baths and nudity, and burial practices.
C. Julius Caesar's Commentaries of his wars in Gaul and civil war with Pompey. To which is added a supplement to his commentary of his wars in Gaul; as also commentaries of the Alexandrian, African and Spanish wars by Aulus Hirtius, or Oppius, &c [...] by Caesar, C. Julius - Col Martin Bladen - 1726
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C. Julius Caesar's Commentaries of his wars in Gaul and civil war with Pompey. To which is added a supplement to his commentary of his wars in Gaul; as also commentaries of the Alexandrian, African and Spanish wars by Aulus Hirtius, or Oppius, &c [...]
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A History of Private Life
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Trilingual Nomenclature: an English, Latin and Greek Vocabulary. Being a Combination of Howard's Greek and Greenwood's Latin Vocabularies, with Many Additional Notes on Science and Classical Literatur
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Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. First edition. Full leather. Published Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. 12mo., 4 1/2" x 7 1/2", viii+160pp. Full calf with leather spine label. Scuffing/wear to the leather, sweating stain to top corner of first 20 pages, top corner of page 60 chipped with slight loss to text (supplied in facsimilie), mild foxing, label on fly leaf. Binding tight, text unmarked. Good. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
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The Greek Sceptics
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NY: Columbia University. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B0017CWHU6 . Slate Blue cloth, gilt, both bright. Signed and inscribed ffep by the author in the year of publication. Erratum slip bound in p215. Tattered, unclipped (4.50) dj; 8vo; 339 pages; Signed by Author .
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FAMOUS AND CURIOUS CEMETERIES
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NY: Crown, 1977. NEAR FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1977. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in hunter green boards and cloth spine in grass green gravesite pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Publisher issued wrinkle to rear paste down. Breath of toning to page edges upper corner, else FINE. 'A Pictorial, Historical, and Ancedotal View of American and European Cemeteries and the Famous and Infamous People Who Are Buried There.' Includes 256 monumental photographs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.
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The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle and Other Rebel Prisons
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Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. Small Octavo. 273pp. with an appendix containing the names of the Union soldiers who died at Andersonville, Illustrated by Thomas Nast. [Nevins p. 192; Much useful data on daily life and officials at such prisons as Charleston and Florence; very bitter against Confederates]. bound inmaroon cloth over beveled boards, pictorial gilt spine, brown endpapers. Light wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy.
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A History of Private Life
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Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990. First editions. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Four volumes. 4to. Cloth-backed boards. Illus. Checklist. Index. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. A detailed and extensively illustrated study of what it was like to live, work, and die in the ancient world, and includes consideration of such things as the role of women, religion, public baths and nudity, and burial practices.
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Trilingual Nomenclature: an English, Latin and Greek Vocabulary. Being a Combination of Howard's Greek and Greenwood's Latin Vocabularies, with Many Additional Notes on Science and Classical Literatur
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Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. First edition. Full leather. Published Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. 12mo., 4 1/2" x 7 1/2", viii+160pp. Full calf with leather spine label. Scuffing/wear to the leather, sweating stain to top corner of first 20 pages, top corner of page 60 chipped with slight loss to text (supplied in facsimilie), mild foxing, label on fly leaf. Binding tight, text unmarked. Good. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
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The Greek Sceptics
by Patrick, Mary Mills
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NY: Columbia University. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B0017CWHU6 . Slate Blue cloth, gilt, both bright. Signed and inscribed ffep by the author in the year of publication. Erratum slip bound in p215. Tattered, unclipped (4.50) dj; 8vo; 339 pages; Signed by Author .
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FAMOUS AND CURIOUS CEMETERIES
by MARION, John Francis
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NY: Crown, 1977. NEAR FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1977. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in hunter green boards and cloth spine in grass green gravesite pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Publisher issued wrinkle to rear paste down. Breath of toning to page edges upper corner, else FINE. 'A Pictorial, Historical, and Ancedotal View of American and European Cemeteries and the Famous and Infamous People Who Are Buried There.' Includes 256 monumental photographs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.
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The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle and Other Rebel Prisons
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Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. Small Octavo. 273pp. with an appendix containing the names of the Union soldiers who died at Andersonville, Illustrated by Thomas Nast. [Nevins p. 192; Much useful data on daily life and officials at such prisons as Charleston and Florence; very bitter against Confederates]. bound inmaroon cloth over beveled boards, pictorial gilt spine, brown endpapers. Light wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy.
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The History of Romulus: With Engravings
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The 1852 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of Romulus, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eighteen B&W engravings are intact (five of them plates), including frontispiece.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with significant wear on top. Cracking on both top hinges and fraying near bottom hinge. Bumping and fraying on corners. Pages are age tanned and have small stains. Endpapers are stained and have small writing. Cracking at 98-99.
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Compnay, 1935. 672 pages.. Measures 7 1/2" x 10". Bookblock is solid, but there is very bad chipping found on the spine. Cover is disbound for three inches at the top front cover. From there on all pages are bound well, none missing, and really in pretty good condition. Pages are crisp and clean. It's a First Edition, thus the still high-end price for a collector's item. Someone adept at re-binding can have themselves a wonderful book after a little attention. After all, it is "Lawrence of Arabia." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. History.
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ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs (2 volumes)
by Theophrastus (translated By Sir Arthur Hort)
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Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd., 1980. Two volumes are numbers 70 and 79 in the Loeb Classical Library. Vol. I: xxvii, 475, 8 pages; vol. II: ix, 499, 7 pages. Volume I is a 1968 printing; volume II, 1980. In these 2 volumes (along with a companion work, On the Causes of Plants), the Greek philosopher Theophrastus of Eresus produced the most important botanical work of both the Ancient World and the Middle Ages. Both books are in almost as-new condition. The clean and bright dust jackets have some minor edgewear, with a hint of fraying at head os spine of one dj.. Reprints. Hardcover. Fine-/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.
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Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally Of Fugitive Rhymes
by Lang, Andrew
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Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."…
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The History Of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies And Conquests, From Their Earliest Accounts Till The Division Of The Macedonian Empire In The East
by Gillies, John (Ownership Signature Of John W. Faires); Two Large Folding Maps Engraved By William Sim Of New York
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Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1831. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. X, 11-492 Pp. Two Large Folding Maps At Front, Printed By William Sims Of New York. Full Speckled Calf, Black Morocco Spine Label, Gilt. Light Wear, Binding Tight And Still Very Securely Bound, But Tiny Chip At Top Of Spine, And Boards Worn Through At Corners Of Two Upper Tips With 1/4" Loss Of Leather At Each Tip. Interesting Association, With Large Ownership Initials And Full Signature Of John W. Faires Dated Oct. 1, 1834; Faires Was The Director Of The Classics School Of Philadelphia, An Important Preparatory School.
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The Story of My Life: THE STORY OF MY LIFE WITH HER LETTERS (1887-1901) AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ACCOUNT OF HER EDUCATION, INCLUDING PASSAGES FROM THE REPORTS AND LETTER OF HER TEACHER, ANNE MANSFIELD SULLIVAN BY JOHN ALBERT MACY
by Hellen Keller
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Grosset & Dunlap 1905. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition, first printing. Very good book. Bound in dark red ribbed leather. Pages have a dark gilt to top edges. Former owner name, and dedication penned on back of front cover and another owners name penned on front pastedown. Shelf wear to edges, no jacket. Fairly scarce. 8vo .441 pages. Illistrated.
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Diamonds & Precious Stones Their History, Value, & Distinguishing Characteristics with Simpler Tests for Their Identification , with new Table of the Present Value of Diamonds
by Harry Emanuel F. R. G. S. , With Beautiful Blue & Gold Title Page
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John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly London, 1867. HB NODJ,1867, stated second edition, Blue Pictorial Cloth with Gold Gilt decorations, Hinge slightly Starting, Minor Rub, Wear Scuff mainly on edges, Slight Fox Here & There, Former owner Name,Tiny chips base & top Spine, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, Small Corner Bump, 266 pgs, index,Ads in Back Bk, . Hard Cover.
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Nepotis quae extant omnia a mendis accuratissime expurgate.
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Venetiis: Ex typographia Remondini, 1751. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. 143, [1]. Title page is printed in red and black. Bound in modern quarter brown cloth with brown patterned paper boards. The edges of the leaves are untrimmed and ragged. The interior displays some marginal soiling and wear with occasional chipping and corner creasing. A tear on the lower part of page 19 is professionally and neatly sealed. The upper corner to the final leaf of the index is chipped/torn perhaps affecting a few numbers or letters. The imprint statement on the title page contains some rubbing which obstructs two letters in the word "typographia." A few brief instances of marginalia are written in a miniscule old hand. The corner of the head cap is neatly patched. Generally this is a well read copy. Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-24 b.c.e) was a Roman writer and historian. His surviving work Vitae execllentium imperatorum or Lives of outstanding commanders consists of a collection of short biographies of…
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The Reclaimers
by Margaret Hill McCarter
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McCarter, Margaret HillThe ReclaimersHardcoverPublisher: A.L. BURT, 1Used - Good. Hardcover. green cloth boards that are worn and rubbed, especially at corners, along edges and at spine ends where there is some threadbareness. Some soil on closed edges. Bottom fore edge corners of pages are yellowed and bumped, A few other corners and edges are bumped or creased. Age toned. Binding sound. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks, but has previous owners name in pencil on both cover pages. Has loose hinge on front cover but otherwise binding is still in tact.
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Opera omnia in usum ivuentutis scholasticae emendate admodum edidit notisque ad modum Ioh. Minellii explicuit et intellectu facillima reddidit M. Christ. Iuncker.
by SALLUSTIUS, Crispus Caius; [Sallust]
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Ex officina Weidmanniana, 1739. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. [10] 348 [12]. Title printed in red and black. Crudely illustrated frontispiece. Annotated by Johann Minellii. This edition of Sallustius was probably meant for Latin students. The entire book is inter-leaved with blanks, presumably for note taking. Several blanks contain notes in a miniscule old hand. Bound in full vellum (darkened spine). [Schweiger II, p.881].
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