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Britannia A History Of Roman Britain Third Edition Extensively Revised

By: Frere, Sheppard

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Guild Book Club Associates: 1987

Seller ID: 4646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd edition, extensively revised. A heavy book of 423pp and plates. Complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w photographs and maps. A clean, near Fine, copy. The standard work on Roman Britain.
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Romans in the Lake Counties

By: Garlick, Tom

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Dalesman: 1970

Seller ID: 13366

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Foreword by Prof. Eric Birley. 80pp, illustrated card covers. Many b + w illustrations. A clean copy. The roman conquest, forts and way of life in the Lake District, with a bibliography and list of sites.
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The Age of the Antonines

By: Gibbon, Edward and Fowler, J H (ed)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1938

Seller ID: 7857

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

101p, including Notes etc. Brown cloth covered boards. Map. Previous owner's names on title page and flyleaf, otherwise very clean. Chapters I - III of The History of the the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire.
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire An Abridgement

By: Gibbon, Edward and Low, D M

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Chatto: 1960

Seller ID: 8992

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

924pp, dustjacket with edgewear and old sellotape repairs. Endpaper maps.Gift inscription on flyleaf otherwise internally clean. A sensitive abridgement of Gibbon's great work.
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The Challenge of the Greek and Other Essays

By: Glover, T R

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Cambridge: 1942

Seller ID: 14479

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2415pp, red cloth covered boards.Frontispiece illustration. A few light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise clean. 13 Essays include the Jerash Head, the Greek Farmer, the Greek and the Forest, Feeding the Athenians, The Fairy Tale, Homer and his readers, Virgil, Erasmus etc.
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From Pericles to Philip

By: Glover, T R

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Methuen: 1919

Seller ID: 15591

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd edition. 405pp, brown cloth covered boards. Spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Greek history, life and art - Pericles, Thucydides, Euripides, Xenophon etc and a chapter on Persia.
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Italy Revisited

By: Graves, Charles

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Hutchinson:

Seller ID: 9667

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

195 pp, green cloth covered boards. Ex Boots private library,shown only by remains of paper shield to front. Previous owner's name to flyleaf and a couple of passages marked, otherwise clean.
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The Greek Myths Volume Two

By: Graves, Robert

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Penguin: 1969

Seller ID: 12961

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint of the Revised edition. 412pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. Fold - out map. A clean, tight copy. The second volume of stories behind the legends of the Greek gods and heroes
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Everyday Life in Ancient Times Highlights of the Beginnings of Western Civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome

By: Grosvenor, Gilbert, and Speiser, E A and Hayes, William c and Hamilton, Edith et al

Price: £15.50

Publisher: National Geographic: 1958

Seller ID: 17081

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A heavy book of 368pp. Grey cloth covered boards with black spine and gilt title. Full page colour illustrations by H M Herget and b + w maps and photographs. A clean copy. A book compiled from articles which appeared in 1941, 1944, 1946 and 1951 in the National Geographic magazine, with a new Introduction by Gilbert Grosvenor.
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The Greeks Their Life and Customs

By: Guhl, E and Koner, W

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Senate: 1994

Seller ID: 8993

ISBN: 1859580297

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

293pp, and list of 323 b + w illustrations. Illustrated soft covers without creases. The page edges have browned with age, otherwise a very clean, probably unread, copy. Not only the great architecture of ancient Greece, but music, theatre, and everyday life, food, leisure, the role of women etc. First published as part of 'The Greeks and Romans'.
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Imperial Rome

By: Hadas. Moses and the Editors of Time-Life Books

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Time-Life International: 1974

Seller ID: 11561

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Large format. Illustrated paper covered boards with cloth spine with gilt title. 192pp. Many colour illustrations. One back corner bumped, the gutter parting a little, otherwise a very clean copy. Part of the Great Ages of Man series - a history of World's Cultures
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Philip of Macedon

By: Hammond, Nicholas

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Duckworth: 1994

Seller ID: 15797

ISBN: 0715626043

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fine

Tall softback of 235pp. B + w illustrations Softback covers a little faded to the spine, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. An authoritative history of Macedonia under King Philip, the father of Alexander the Great.
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Along Hadrian's Wall

By: Harrison, David

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Pan: 1973

Seller ID: 6481

ISBN: 0330234684

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

223pp, the paper browning a little with age, colour illustrated softback covers with creases to spine. B + w photographs. Map. Internally clean. An attractive detailed guide and walk.
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A Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Harrap: 1929

Seller ID: 10946

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Decorated brown cloth covered boards. Only 2 of the 8 colour illustrations are present, so sold as a good 'reading copy'. Tales from Greek mythology - Ulysses, Jason, Pegasus etc.
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The Golden Pathway To A Treasury Of Knowledge Volume III When The World Was Young

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Longfellow, H W and Homer and Wragbyu, Harold and Heine, H and Klingensmith, Anna et al

Price: £8.00

Publisher: International University Society, ND:

Seller ID: 4568

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Probably 1930s. 291pp, blue cloth covered boards. Colour and b + w illustrations. Flyleaf removed, one mark to foredge, otherwise clean. Stories from the Greek and Northern myths and from the Bible, retold for children.
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The Arundel Marbles

By: Haynes, D E L

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Oxford: 1975

Seller ID: 16671

ISBN: 0900090199

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

49pp, illustrated soft covers, a little rubbed to the front bottom edge. Frontispiece portrait and 27 sepia plates. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and tight. The history of the first major collection of classical sculptures and inscriptions in Britain, collected by Thomas Howard Earl of Arundel in the early 17th century, part of which is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Who's Who in The Greek World

By: Hazel, John

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Routledge: 2000

Seller ID: 15506

ISBN: 0415124972

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

284pp, softback covers. Maps. One small mark to foredge, otherwise very clean and As New. A biographical guide to Ancient Greece with Chronology, List of Rulers, Timeline etc.
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The Classical Gazetteer A Dictionary of Ancient Sites

By: Hazlitt, William

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Senate: 1995

Seller ID: 12247

ISBN: 1859580467

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Reprint of the 1851 edition. 378pp, the edges browning a very little with age, illustrated softback covers. A very clean, unread copy of a useful guide.
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The Phoenicians The Purple Empire of the Ancient World

By: Herm, Gerhard

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Gollancz: 1975

Seller ID: 17329

ISBN: 0575019034

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Translated by Caroline Hillier. 288pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. Endpaper maps. B + w illustrations. Tiny spots of foxing to the top edge, otherwise a very clean copy. The suthor researches one of the great lost cultures of the ancient world - the traders and settlers who invented the alphabet.
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Herodotus Literally Translated from the Text of Baehr with a Geographical and General Index

By: Herodotus Translated By Henry Cary

Price: £11.00

Publisher: George Bell: 1886

Seller ID: 10171

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

613pp and publisher's catalogue of Bohn's Classical Library. Blue cloth covered boards with stamped ornament and gilt title, sun darkened to the spine, which has wear to the ends. Frontispiece illustration. Original owner's name in pencil to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A classic english translation, with footnote references.
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Category: Classical Literature & Culture