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Image for A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, in 8 Volumes, Part Three: Orations - Vol. I: Greek Orators; Vol. II: Roman Orators; Vol. III. Orators of Continental Europe; Vol. VI: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. V: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. VI: American Orators; Vol. VII: American Orators; Vol. VIII: American Orators

A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations, in 8 Volumes, Part Three: Orations - Vol. I: Greek Orators; Vol. II: Roman Orators; Vol. III. Orators of Continental Europe; Vol. VI: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. V: Orators of Great Britain and Ireland; Vol. VI: American Orators; Vol. VII: American Orators; Vol. VIII: American Orators

By: N/A

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, P. F. Collier: 1900

Seller ID: 2302557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front hinge of volumes two and four broken, minor general wear. 1900 Hard Cover. Brown boards. Eight volume set, part three of a larger set of 32 volumes. Notable speeches include Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death, Gettysburg Address, abolition, military, political, Presidential, etc.
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Titans and Olympians: Greek and Roman Myth (Myth and Mankind)

By: Allan, Tony; Maitland, Sara

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Time-Life Books: 1997

Seller ID: 2306834

ISBN: 070543513X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

3rd printing. 1997 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Part of the Myth & Mankind series. A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests. The ancient Greeks and Romans created the most enduring cultures known to humanity and a pantheon of gods who live on in some of the greatest myths ever told: of Athena, goddess of battle, of Dionysus, god of wine and fertility, and of Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection.
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Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War; and the First Book of the Greek Paraphrase; with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Plans of Battles, Sieges, Etc., and Historical, Geographical, and Archaeological Indexes

By: Anthon, Charles

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1839

Seller ID: 2307171

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Map of France removed, top page ridge lightly foxed, faint stain on rear free endpaper. 1839 Full-Leather. xviii, 493 pp. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Celtic and Germanic peoples in Gaul that opposed Roman conquest.--Wikipedia
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Rome and Its Story

By: Baddeley, St. Clair; Gordon, Lina Duff

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 2308485

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Presentation copy with ALS from author to a James N. Johnston tipped in on front flyleaf. Front and end matter lightly foxed, ink gift note to Johnston on front endpaper. 1904 Hard Cover. xv, 384 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates by Aubrey Waterfield. Also includes illustrations and reproductions of paintings and sculptures. From the preface: To present, within the compass of a single volume, anything like a serviceable sketch of the history and monuments of the city of Rome is a task of extreme difficulty, and one which it ...
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The Hellenistic and Roman Age (The History of Philosophy)

By: Brehier, Emile; Baskin, Wade - Translator

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chicago, Phoenix Books / The University of Chicago Press: 1965

Seller ID: 2307985

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1965 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 261 pp. ...the second part of Brehier's great Histoire de la Philosophie... Following the Hellenic Age, it completes Brehier's account of the classical philosophers. The post-Aristotelian systems are taken up in this part--the Socratics, the Old Stoa, Epicureanism, Skepticism, Neo-Platonism, and Hellenism and Christianity.--rear wrapper
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (A Modern Library Giant, G14)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:

Seller ID: 2276970

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, top corners of boards lightly bumped, pencil name on front endpaper, no publisher date. We have more books available by this author!. 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 characters of ancient European mythology. - Wikipedia
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (A Modern Library Giant, G14)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1930

Seller ID: 2291646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1930s printing of Toledano G014.1. Very good in fair jacket. Small dealer plate on rear endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with large chip from top edge of rear panel and minor loss elsewhere. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1] 778 pp. 8vo. 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...
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The Satyricon of Petronius

By: Burnaby, William; Bagnani, Gilbert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1964

Seller ID: 2298273

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine slipcase. A couple smudges on slipcase board. 1964 Large Hardcover. xxii, 246 pp. Includes Sandglass and slipcase. The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica,[1] is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius. The Satyricon is an example of Menippean satire, which is different from the formal verse satire of Juvenal or Horace. The work contains a mixture of prose and verse (commonly known as prosimetrum); serious and comic el...
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The Battle for Gaul: A New Illustrated Translation

By: Caesar, Julius; Wiseman, Anne and Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, David R. Godine, Publisher: 1980

Seller ID: 2303558

ISBN: 0879233060

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1980 Hard Cover. 208 pp. New translation with color plates and illustrations. Julius Caesar was for a few years the undisputed master of the Roman world -- devoted to expanding Roman supremacy and his own fame. THE BATTLE FOR GAUL contains seven books of Caesar's Commentaries on his campaign in Gaul from 58 to 50 B.C. in their original narrative sequence. These unparalleled accounts of war in Western Europe in the closing years of the Roman republic are clear and exciting. We feel the immediacy of the moment as we listen to Caesar's dramatic story of hi...
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The Poems of Catullus

By: Catullus; Gregory, Horace

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1956

Seller ID: 2201835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

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.
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Lucius Annaeus Florus. Cui subjungitur Lucii Ampelii Liber Memorialis

By: Florus, Lucius Annaeus [Florus, Publius Annius]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts: 1715

Seller ID: 2135233

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. with Notes, A New Edition, to which is added A Complete Index of the Whole Work. Complete in Five Volumes.

By: Gibbon, Edward; Milman, H.H.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 2300912

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spines faded, minor abrasions to spine labels, ink names on front endpaper of first volume. 1900 Hard Cover. Complete in five volumes. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles and top edge.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. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, V...
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Larousse World Mythology

By: Grimal, Pierre

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New Jersey, Chartwell Books, Inc.: 1977

Seller ID: 2307199

ISBN: 0890090602

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Fifth printing. Jacket edges rubbed, sticker on front jacket flap. Page ridges faintly foxed. 1977 Large Hardcover. 560 pp. ...twenty-three authors survey the myths of the world's principal societies with perception. They analyze the form and function of myth, note it variations and evolution, and examine recurrent themes. They range from the dark, cave-bound rites of prehistoric man, through the system of Egyptian gods, the monotheistic patterns of the ancient near east, the Indian pantheon, and the gods and heroes of classical Greece and Rome. In less commonly charted areas they survey the p...
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Holland, Tom

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2305486

ISBN: 1400078970

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine base very lightly rubbed. 2005 Trade Paperback. xi, 408 pp. A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Hollands enthralling account tells the story of Caesars generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary ...
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Caesar against the Celts

By: Jimenez, Ramon L.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Castle Books: 2009

Seller ID: 2305984

ISBN: 0785814175

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reissue. Faint edge wear. 2009 Hard Cover. A military history which analyses and describes caesar's campaigns in ancient France, Britain and Germany, on land and sea. The author draws upon modern archaeological, linguistic and historical research, which includes identification of the sites of many of Caesar's battle camps and sieges.
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The Heroes of the Seven Hills. Child's History of Rome: From Tarquinius Superbus to Camillus; 365 Years B.C.

By: Laing, C.H.G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & Co.: 1873

Seller ID: 2264277

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Imaginary Conversations (Volume I of VI [1 of 6])

By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: 2290162

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine head rubbed, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1891 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxvii, 382 pp. Volume I of VI. Gilt titles and decor on spine. Imaginary Conversations is a publication consisting of five volumes of imaginary conversations, mainly between historical people of classical Greece and Rome, composed by the English author Walter Savage Landor. Landor's fame rests on this prose. The work is noted as a specimen of poetic prose full of rich imagery and ornate diction as seen in De Quincey. The Imaginary Conversations were begun when Landor, aged...
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Imaginary Conversations (Volume IV of VI [4 of 6])

By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 2290163

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine head rubbed, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. Volume IV of VI. Gilt titles and decor on spine. Imaginary Conversations is a publication consisting of five volumes of imaginary conversations, mainly between historical people of classical Greece and Rome, composed by the English author Walter Savage Landor. Landor's fame rests on this prose. The work is noted as a specimen of poetic prose full of rich imagery and ornate diction as seen in De Quincey. The Imaginary Conversations were begun when Landor, aged 46, w...
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Imaginary Conversations (Volume V of VI [5 of 6])

By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 2290164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine head lightly rubbed, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Volume V of VI. Gilt titles and decor on spine. Imaginary Conversations is a publication consisting of five volumes of imaginary conversations, mainly between historical people of classical Greece and Rome, composed by the English author Walter Savage Landor. Landor's fame rests on this prose. The work is noted as a specimen of poetic prose full of rich imagery and ornate diction as seen in De Quincey. The Imaginary Conversations were begun when Landor, aged 46, wa...
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Imaginary Conversations (Volume VI of VI [6 of 6])

By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 2290165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine head lightly rubbed, faint smudge along top edge of front board, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 466 pp. Volume VI of VI. Gilt titles and decor on spine. Imaginary Conversations is a publication consisting of five volumes of imaginary conversations, mainly between historical people of classical Greece and Rome, composed by the English author Walter Savage Landor. Landor's fame rests on this prose. The work is noted as a specimen of poetic prose full of rich imagery and ornate diction as seen in De Quincey. The Imagin...
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The Colossus of Rhodes (The Roman Mysteries)

By: Lawrence, Caroline

Price: $6.00

Publisher: London, Orion Children's Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2272359

ISBN: 1842552538

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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!
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The Sirens of Surrentum (The Roman Mysteries)

By: Lawrence, Caroline

Price: $6.00

Publisher: London, Orion Children's Books: 2006

Seller ID: 2272360

ISBN: 1842552554

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 and her friends track down the would-be poisoner before it's too late?
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The Imperial Roman Army

By: Le Bohec, Yann

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Hippocrene Books: 1994

Seller ID: 2280273

ISBN: 0781802598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition, from the French original L'Armee Romaine, sous le Haut-Empire, first published in 1989. Faint odor of smoke. 1994 Hard Cover. 304 pp. The Emperor Augustus believed that the Roman army occupied a crucial place at the heart of the empire and it was he who made it a fully professional force. This book looks at the structure and development of the army between the Republic and the Late Empire, examining why the army has always been accorded such a prominent position in the history of the Roman Empire, and whether that view is justified. The book is divided into three sectio...
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Image for Titi Livii Historiarum Quod Extat cum perpetuis Car. Sigonii et J.F. Gronovii Notis. Jac. Gronovius probavit, suasque et aliorum, Notas adjecit., Tome I & II [Livy's History of Rome - Volumes One & Two of a Three Volume Set]

Titi Livii Historiarum Quod Extat cum perpetuis Car. Sigonii et J.F. Gronovii Notis. Jac. Gronovius probavit, suasque et aliorum, Notas adjecit., Tome I & II [Livy's History of Rome - Volumes One & Two of a Three Volume Set]

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

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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. The third volume, discussing the Macedonian and other eastern wars down to 167 B.C., is not included. Rear joint of first volum...
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The History of Rome: The Twentieth to the Thirtieth Books Inclusive, Literally Translated, with Explanatory Notes. in Two Volumes.

By: Livius [Patavinus], Titus [Livy]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Oxford, D.A. Talboys and J. Vincent.: 1828

Seller ID: 2101550

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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 against the Carthaginians.
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The Roman Legions

By: Parker, H.M.D.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Dorset Press: 1992

Seller ID: 2266953

ISBN: 0880298545

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Top edge of jacket lightly toned. Corner of title page clipped, owner's stamp on page 117. 1992 Hard Cover. 296 pp. From the start of the Marian Army reforms to the accession of Septimius Severus, H.M.D. Parker gives us every aspect of the internal organization of the legions of Rome. Of special interest will be the chapters dealing with the everyday life of the Roman soldier; his duration of service, pay, diet, decorations and punishments, marriage and peace-time employments.
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The History and Conquests of Ancient Rome - An Illustrated Military and Political Chronicle of the world's greatest Empire: its leaders and generals, wars, and campaigns

By: Rodgers, Nigel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Hermes House: 2005

Seller ID: 1960539

ISBN: 068164303X

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

2005 Large Softcover. 256 pp. Authoritative and informative account of the army and government of ancient Rome. Over 470 photographs, illustrations, maps and diagrams bring battles, military campaigns, political intrigue and historical events to life. A highly readable popular history of the military and political power of ancient Rome.
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The Triumph of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome

By: Saylor, Steven

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's: 2008

Seller ID: 2262539

ISBN: 0312359837

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2008 Hard Cover. The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Romes legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. Appointed by the Senate as Dictator, the city abounds with rumors asserting that Caesar wishes to be made King the first such that Rome has had in centuries. And that not all of his opposition has been crushed.
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C. Cornelii Taciti Historiarum Libri Quinque: Ad Fidem Optimarum Editionum Expressi. Cum Notis Barbou.

By: Tacitus, Cornelius; Carey, Matthew (Preface)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Impensis M. Carey: 1808

Seller ID: 1951280

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Ink note from previous owner on front endpaper ('The property of Otis Hutchins. purchased second hand. August 22d 1815. price 1.00, No. 77'), edges of endpapers toned, top corner of front free endpaper removed. 1808 Full-Leather. iv, 256 pp. Original full leather, red leather spine label, gilt titles & rules. Books 1-4 of Tacitus's histories in the original Latin, taken primarily from the Brotier's edition, with portions from Barbou and Gronovius. Notes by Barbou taken from his 1793 edition. Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman statesman in the first century A.D., whose histories provide an a...
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The Commentaries of Caesar (Ancient Classics for English Readers)

By: Trollope, Anthony; Collins, W. Lucas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company:

Seller ID: 2274588

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket, hinges starting, no publisher date (circa late 1800s), pages 175-178 loose but included. vi, 182 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; First Book of the War in Gaul--Caesar Drives First the Swiss and Then the Germans Out of Gaul--B.C. 58; Second Book of the War in Gaul--Caesar Subdues the Belgian Tribes--B.C. 57; Third Book of the War in Gaul--Caesar Subdues the Western Tribes of Gaul--B.C. 56; Fourth Book of the War in Gaul--Caesar Crosses the Rhine, Slaughters the Germans, and Goes Into Britain--B.C. 55; Fifth Book of the War in Gaul--Caesar's Second Invasion of Britain--The Gauls Rise Agai...
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