RIDPATH'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD; VOLUME II, PARTHIA, GREECE, MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER THE GREAT

CINCINNATI, OHIO: THE JONES BROTHERS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1916 RARE, NICE LOOKING HEAVY BOOK, THICK PAGES, MARBLING PAGE EDGES. LEATHER ON SPINE AND EDGES. LIGHT WEAR. REBOUND INSIDE FRONT AND BACK, VERY NICE LOOKING. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPLE EVENTS IN THE CAREER OF THE HUMAN RACE FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION VOLUME II INCLUDES GREAT DETAIL PARTHIA, GREECE, MACEDONIA, ALEXANDER THE GREAT. John Clark Ridpath (April 26, 1840 – July 31, 1900) was an American educator, historian, and editor. His mother was a descendant of Samuel Matthews, a colonial governor of Virginia. Among his most notable works is a series of volumes on a history of the world, titled Cyclopedia of Universal History. He was born near the village of Fillmore, Indiana, in Putnam County, Indiana. His parents were from the part of Virginia that is now West Virginia, and began life under circumstances of great discouragement and hardship. The son had no early educational advantages besides those that he obtained at frontier schools, but his appetite for books was insatiable, and at seventeen he was a teacher. In 1885 Ridpath left his position at the University to devote himself more to writing. In the later 1890s, he was editor of a magazine called The Arena. He wrote biographies of James G. Blaine, James A. Garfield, William Ewart Gladstone, and James Otis. His popular volumes of history were successful, and reissued many times, even after his death. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.