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By: Auguet, Roland
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 1998
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2295032
ISBN: 0760709270
Condition: Very Good
Reissue. Faint edge wear. 1998 Hard Cover. Roland Auguet examines the Roman taste for blood and considers what the games, that strange combination of Cruelty and Civilization, reveal about the Roman mentality. He shows how the great spectacles became a part of city life - they were awaited with impatience, everyone discussed them, some applauded the action in the arena, while others booed frantically. View more info
By: Baker, G. P. [George Philip]
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company: 1928
Seller ID: 2294563
Condition: Good
No jacket. A few light spots on boards, front hinge starting, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper, two inch tear on second to last page. 1928 Hard Cover. xi, 322 pp. Purple boards. Deckled edge. Frontispiece of coin portraits of four Caesars, three maps, genealogical chart. CONTENTS: Preface; The Triumph of Augustus; The Causes and Results of the World-State; The Conquest of Germany; The Survival of Julia's Third Husband; The Revolt of the North; Tiberius Caesar; The Military Mutinies; Germanicus; Julia's Daughter; The Advent of the Tuscan; The Entanglement of Julia's Children: and the Fa... View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library:
Seller ID: 2276970
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 View more info
By: Bulfinch, Thomas
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1930
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2291646
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... View more info
By: Burnaby, William; Bagnani, Gilbert
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1964
Seller ID: 2298273
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... View more info
![Image for C. Julii Caesaris, Quae Extant, Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Johannes Godvinus, Professor Regius, in Usum Delphini. The Notes and Interpretations Translated and Improved by Thomas Clark. [Clark's Caesar] [Commentariorum de Bello Gallico; Commentariorum de Bello Civili; Commentariorum de Bello Alexandrino Liber.; Commentariorum de Bello Africano Liber Unus.; Commentariorum de Bello Hispaniensi Liber.; Fragmenta] [Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic, Civil War, Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars]](/assets/images/product/2289638.jpg)
By: Caesar, Julius; Hirtii, A.; Clark, Thomas
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Bennett & Walton, John Grigg, Carey, Lea & Carey, and Thomas Desilver.: 1829
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 2289638
Condition: Good
1829 sixth edition. Includes all three fold-out maps and engraving. Boards rubbed with some loss of leather along edges, light stain to fore edge, lightly foxed throughout. viii, 410, [8] pp. 4to. Latin text, with notes and interpretations translated into English and improved by Thomas Clark. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Grove Press: 1956
Seller ID: 2201835
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. View more info
By: Chrystal, Paul
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Fonthill: 2015
Seller ID: 2267708
ISBN: 178155305X
Condition: Near Fine
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 makes full use of the accounts of historians and political writers, contemporary and otherwise, including Livy, Sallust, Caesar, ... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Quadrangle Books: 1959
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 2295670
Condition: Very Good
Sixth edition. No jacket. Boards lightly toned. 1959 Large Hardcover. 72 pp. Normand's Parallel of the Orders of Architecture is unusual in this class of publication in that it includes not only a fully representative selection of those standardised versions of the respective orders evolved by certain celebrated modern masters of Italian or French Renaissance architecture, but also a fine series of measured drawings, derived from the actual monuments of Greek or Roman antiquity still surviving. As the Orders composed by the Renaissance writers were based on these very structures, we are conseq... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Vision: 2000
Seller ID: 2280974
ISBN: 8881620758
Condition: Very Good
Lightly rubbed. 2000 Spiral-Bound Hardcover. A look at this fabled city--buried beneath a rain of ash and cinder during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD--includes the Porta Marina, one of the best preserved gates to the city, as well as the Forum, temple of Apollo, and several public walkways and private villas. 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
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. View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1977
Seller ID: 2287905
ISBN: 0394604016
Condition: Very Good
Multiple small tears along jacket edges. No publisher date (circa 1970s). 1977 Hard Cover. viii, 956 pp. ...divided roughly into three parts. The first third covers two hundred years and ends with the advent of the fifth century A.D. The last two thirds are devoted to the thousand years that ended with the acquisition of the absolute dominion of Rome by the Pope in 1500. View more info
By: Gibbon, Edward; Milman, H.H.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: A.L. Burt, Publisher: 1900
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2287177
Condition: Very Good
No date, circa 1900. Boards lightly rubbed, ink owner stamp on front endpaper of each volume. Complete in five volumes. 8vo. Blue 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, VI in 1788-89... 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
ISBN: 0140431896
Condition: Good
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 breadth comparable to a novel. Casual readers now have access to the full sweep of Gibbon’s narrative, while instructors and... View more info
By: Grant, Michael
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books, New York: 1998
Seller ID: 1773015
ISBN: 0760708258
Condition: Near Fine
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 of dates. Because of compression, omission, and style, this is not the most readable or entertaining of surveys and there ar... View more info
By: Gregory, Horace
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Grove Press: 1956
Seller ID: 2196013
Condition: Very Good
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. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1970
Seller ID: 2288953
ISBN: 0434991945
Condition: Very Good
Half-inch chip to jacket spine head, corners of front jacket flap clipped, pencil note on rear jacket flap. 1970 Small Hard Cover. xxx, 508, 8 pp. Dual text in Latin and in English. Translated by H.R. Fairclough. In the two books of Satires Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of Epistles are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the Ars Poetica. The Epodes in various (mostly iambic) metres are akin to the 'discourses' (as Horace called his satires and epistles) but also look towards the famous Odes, in four books, in the o... View more info
By: James Vanessa
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Gotham Books / Melcher Media: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2298820
ISBN: 1592400132
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Accordion binding with publisher slipcase. 2003 Hard Cover. Accordion binding with publisher slipcase. A stunning, fully illustrated and comprehensively annotated genealogical map of the universe of Greek myth, presented in a unique, easy-to-use format. From the television hit Xena, to the Oscar-winning box-office smash Gladiator and to Broadway's Medea, the sagas of antiquity continue to attract avid audiences. Now the lore and legend of Ancient Greece have been distilled into one spectacularly illustrated resource. The Genealogy of Greek Mythology brings to life the complete c... View more info
By: Johnson, Stephen
Price: $5.00
Publisher: DOTE: 1977
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1990756
ISBN: 0116703407
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Light shelf wear. 1977 Stapled Binding. A history of Roman forts in England. View more info
By: Laing, C.H.G.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Henry T. Coates & Co.: 1873
Seller ID: 2264277
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. View more info
![Image for Imaginary Conversations (Volume I of VI [1 of 6])](/assets/images/product/2290162.jpg)
By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co.: 1891
Seller ID: 2290162
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... View more info
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By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co.: 1901
Seller ID: 2290163
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... View more info
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By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co.: 1901
Seller ID: 2290164
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... View more info
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By: Landor, Walter Savage; Crump, Charles G.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Co.: 1901
Seller ID: 2290165
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... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Orion Children's Books: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272359
ISBN: 1842552538
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! View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Orion Children's Books: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2272360
ISBN: 1842552554
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? View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Orion Children's Books: 2004
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2272361
ISBN: 184255252X
Condition: Near Fine
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 straight to the games, where they must face wild beasts, criminals, conspirators and gladiators. It is Nubia's turn to employ all h... View more info
By: Le Bohec, Yann
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Hippocrene Books: 1994
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 2280273
ISBN: 0781802598
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... View more info
![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]](/assets/images/product/2128667.jpg)
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
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... View more info
By: Livius [Patavinus], Titus [Livy]
Price: $150.00
Publisher: D.A. Talboys and J. Vincent.: 1828
Seller ID: 2101550
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. View more info
