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Price: $10.00
Publisher: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher: 1987
Seller ID: 1501234
1987 Hard Cover. 100 pp. Reprint of the 1907 edition. CONTENTS: THE DEIFIED ABSTRACTS AS INDIVIDUAL CULTS: State-Cults: Of the Republican Period, Of the Empire; Abstracts Popularly But Not Officially Worshipped; Occasional and Individual Deifications; Doubtful Examples; THE DEIFIED ABSTRACTS AS A CLASS: Their Origin; The Deified Abstracts in Literature: Literature of the Republic; Literature of the Early Empire; Literature of the First and Second Centuries A.D.; Literatu... View more info
By: Barrow, R.H.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Pelican Books: 1970
Seller ID: 1284269
Cover worn, sticker on front cover, pages toned. 1970 Mass Market Paperback. CONTENTS: What Manner of Men?; 'The Old Ways'; Kings, Republic, Empire; From the Seven Hills to the Roman Orb; From City-state to Republic in Ruins; The New Ways and the Old; Cicero; Restoration and the Augustan Principate: Vergil and Horace and Livy; The First and Second Centuries, A.D.; What the Romans Wrote About; The Roman Practical Genius; The Roman Attitude to Religion and Philosophy; The ... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press: 2008
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2194711
Jacket flap price-clipped.Very Good. 2008 Hard Cover. 176 pp. This beautiful and informative volume, inspired by the pioneering 1905 color book Rome, offers a new way of looking at the sights and social history of this much-loved European city. Every painting from Alberto Pisa's original book has been reproduced and enlarged for these pages and each is placed in contemporary context with related images, from period maps and postcards to newspapers and railway tickets, as... View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library:
Seller ID: 2276970
No jacket, top corners of boards lightly bumped, pencil name on front endpaper, no publisher date. xi, 778 pp. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is still being printed, even 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. The following is a table of contents of the work, which itself can serve as an interesting pantheon of the ch... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Grove Press: 1956
Seller ID: 2201835
Wrappers and pages heavily toned. 1956 Trade Paperback. xxiv, 184 pp. Catullus, best remembered for his tempestuous relationship with the notorious Clodia Metelli, was one of the most influential, original and enigmatic of all the Roman poets.Keywords: POEMS OF CATULLUS HORACE GREGORY POETRY CLODIA METELLI ROME ROMAN ANCIENT HISTORY View more info
By: Chrystal, Paul
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fonthill: 2015
Seller ID: 2267708
Edges lightly rubbed. 2015 Trade Paperback. 176 pp. Wars and Battles of the Roman Republic examines the decisive battles from the founding of Rome in 753 BC to the birth of Julius Caesar in 100BC; it covers the social and political consequences, as well as the military aspects of each conflict. Every war and battle had wide-ranging consequences, leading Rome from kingdom to republic, from local power to international superpower, and from republic to empire. The book make... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: John Wiley: 2006
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2195541
1st printing. Light edge wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire–a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machi... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Aiglon Press: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202539
First edition. Pages heavily toned, pencil underlining and marginalia.Quarter inch chip to top edge of rear jacket, jacket edges rubbed, jacket spine toned. 1948 Hard Cover. 223 pp. Cola di Rienzo (c. 1313 – 8 October 1354) was an Italian medieval politician and popular leader, tribune of the Roman people in the mid-14th century.Keywords: VICTOR FLEISCHER RIENZO RISE FALL OF DICTATOR BIOGRAPHY HISTORY ROME ANCIENT ROMAN View more info
By: Florus, Lucius Annaeus [Florus, Publius Annius]
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts.: 1715
Seller ID: 2135233
Minor loss from spine head & foot, ink name on front flyleaf. 1715 Full-Leather. [viii], 141, [2] pp. Full calf, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, marbled endpapers. Latin text. A work of history by a contemporary of Hadrian. View more info
By: Fox, Robin Lane; Haig, Alexander M.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1991
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274880
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1991 Full-Leather. 568 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. This edition includes a frontispiece showing a bust of Alexander and a new foreword by Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. Whe... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Penguin: 2001
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2268400
Reprint. Light crease to spine. 2001 Trade Paperback. Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes three and four, Gibbon vividly recounts the waves of barbar... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Bury, J.B. (Editor)
Price: $95.00
Publisher: AMS Press: 1974
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2270768
Minimal cosmetic wear. 1974 Hard Cover. 3928 pp. Complete in seven volumes. 8 3/4 x 5 7/8. 8vo. Brown leatherette spines over orange cloth, gilt titles, decorations & rules, black panels. Maps on endpapers. Extensive appendices, bibliography and index. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. It stands as a major literary achievement of the 18th century because it was adopted as a... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Milman, Dean; Guizot, M.; Smith, William
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The Nottingham Society: 1845
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2277955
Limited edition, #557 of 1000 copies. Corners a bit rubbed with a small chip from vol. II spine head and minimal loss elsewhere. 1845 Half-Leather. Complete in six hardcover volumes. 8vo. Black leather spines and corners, marbed boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Includes notes by Dean Milman, M. Guizot, and Dr. William Smith, and photogravure frontispieces. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and pub... View more info
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By: Gibbon, Edward; Milman, H.H.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1864
Seller ID: 2275476
Spine of first volume repaired, rear endpapers of first volume stained, other volumes in very good condition. 1864 Hard Cover. Complete in six volumes. 8vo. Original black blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. Gibbon's complete work, with notes by Rev. Milman, plus a general index. The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. ... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Radice, Betty
Price: $175.00
Publisher: The Folio Society: 1983
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274150
Includes two publisher's slipcase as issued. A copy tiny spots on top slipcase panels, otherwise an exceptional set. 1983 Hard Cover. Complete in eight hardcover volumes. Edited with introduction by Betty Radice. Illustrations from etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi throughout text. 9 7/8 x 6 3/8. 8vo. Bound in cream vegetable parchment (which has the look of vellum) blocked in red, blue, and gold. Gilt titles & rules. Maps on endpapers. The History of the Decline and Fa... View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Saunders, Dero A.; Robinson, Charles Alexander, Jr.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 1986
Edition: Abridged
Seller ID: 2274343
Abridged. Multiple creases to wrappers, wrappers rubbed, ink names on half-title page, pages lightly toned. 1986 Mass Market Paperback. x, 691 pp. Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written. This abridgment retains the full scope of the original, but in a b... View more info
By: Grant, Michael
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books, New York: 1998
Seller ID: 1773015
Near fine in very good jacket. A few shallow scratches on rear jacket panel.Very Good. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 352 pp. 8vo. The author's prolific output (the Notes refer to 22 works) makes him well qualified to prepare a comprehensive summary of ancient history. Grant devotes some 116 pages of text to the Greeks and 81 to the Romans; the remaining pages include seven appendixes on specialized topics, and a lengthy comparative table ... View more info
By: Gregory, Horace
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Grove Press: 1956
Seller ID: 2196013
Cover toned, pencil markings on front endpaper. 1956 Trade Paperback. xxiv, 184 pp. Catullus, best remembered for his tempestuous relationship with the notorious Clodia Metelli, was one of the most influential, original and enigmatic of all the Roman poets. This text presents a collection of his work.Keywords: POEMS POETRY CATULLUS ROMAN HISTORY ANCIENT ROME View more info
By: Johnson, Stephen
Price: $5.00
Publisher: DOTE: 1977
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1990756
First printing. Light shelf wear. 1977 Stapled Binding. A history of Roman forts in England. View more info
By: Kahn, Arthur D.; Blumenson, Martin
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1993
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274882
Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1993 Full-Leather. xvi, 514 pp. 8vo. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece of Julius Caesar, new foreword for this edition by Martin Blumenson. In this meticulously researched and absorbing biography, Arthur Kahn brings Caesar alive and explores the spirit of his age with intensity, illuminating the politics, the technological... View more info
By: Laing, C.H.G.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Henry T. Coates & Co.: 1873
Seller ID: 2264277
No jacket, ink stamp on front endpaper, faint stain on rear endpaper. 1873 Hard Cover. x, 368 pp. The Heroes of the Seven Hills. Child's History of Rome: From Tarquinius Superbus to Camillus; 365 Years B.C. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Orion Children's Books: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272359
First edition. Very faint smudge on jacket rear. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 212 pp. Spring AD 80. The sailing season has begun. Lupus decides to see if his mother is still alive and to follow his uncle's dying wish. The friends sail to the island of Rhodes, site of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world ...and base of a criminal mastermind! View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Orion Children's Books: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272360
First edition. Sticker on jacket rear. 2006 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 259 pp. Summer AD 80. Flavia and her friends receive an invitation to stay at the luxurious Villa Limona in Surrentum, where their friend Pulchra has a mystery she desperately wants them to solve. After a year of hardship and disasters, people are in cheerful spirits - there is even talk of love and romance. But it seems one of the guests has murder in mind. Can Flavia a... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Orion Children's Books: 2004
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2272361
An excellent copy. 2004 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. March AD 80. In Rome, the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open his new Flavian amphitheatre (now known as the Colosseum). Suspecting that their friend Jonathan is not dead, as they had thought, Flavia, Nubia and Lupus organise an invitation to Rome on the pretence of witnessing this historic event. Their search for Jonathan leads them straig... View more info
By: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel; Feeny, Mary (Translator)
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Phoenix:
Seller ID: 1794335
Minor crease at head of front wrapper, minor ink underlining. xiv, 434 pp. The author presents the setting of two significant weeks in Roman history in which Dauphine was ravaged by the religious wars of which many believed were a result of Huguenot conspiracies. View more info
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By: Livii, Titi [Livius Patavinus, Titus; Livy]; Gronovius, J.F.; Sigonius, Carolus
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Danielem Elsevirium: 1679
Seller ID: 2128667
First two volumes only (of three volume set), comprising books I-X and XXI-XXX (XI-XX are lost). These volumes cover the following (though parts are absent due to some portions being lost): The founding of Rome (including the landing of Aeneas in Italy and the founding of the city by Romulus); the period of the kings, and the early republic down to its conquest by the Gauls; The subjugation of Italy (the Samnite Wars) before the conflict with Carthage; The Punic Wars. Th... View more info
By: Livius [Patavinus], Titus [Livy]
Price: $150.00
Publisher: D.A. Talboys and J. Vincent.: 1828
Seller ID: 2101550
Spines repaired with minimal loss from spine feet and joints. Volume II: rear board broken away from hinge. 1828 Hard Cover. 360; 342, [2] pp. Brown cloth, paper spine labels. 8vo. An English translation of a portion of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri (Books from the Foundation of the City). The full work encompassed the history of Rome from the earliest legends through the reign of Augustus. This portion of the work focuses mainly on the Punic Wars, which pitted the Romans... View more info
By: MacAulay, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1974
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2275935
Reprint. Sticker on front endpaper, jacket price clipped, 1 inch closed tear on rear jacket edge. 1974 Large Hardcover. 112 pp. Detailed illustrations show how Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them. Macaulay, who studied architecture and its history extensively, has written and illustrated a number of works explaining and depicting various structures, beginning with Cathedral in 1973. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: 1986
Seller ID: 2278402
Last part of book stained, pages stuck together (separate easily). 1986 Soft Cover. Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets. View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 1960
Seller ID: 1539969
Pages slightly toned. 1960 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. An intelligible, well-told tale that recounts... what excavators and scholars using the full repertory of modern skills and techniques have in recent years discovered about the remains of an ancient civilization in Italy and what the discoveries mean. Photographs, maps, drawings and plans throughout. View more info
