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The Classical World An Epic History of Greece and Rome

By: Lane Fox, Robin

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Penguin: 2006

Seller ID: 17171

ISBN: 0141021411

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fine

704pp, the page edges browning a little with age. Illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. A masterly study of almost a thousand years of the history of the classical civizations of Greece and Rome.
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Laocoon Nathan the Wise Minna Von Barnhelm

By: Lessing, John

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Dent: 1959

Seller ID: 15771

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Everyman edition, edited by Wiliam A Steel. 294pp, dustjacket with a little wear to the edges. Spots of foxing to foredge, previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. An influential essay on Greek art and two plays.
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Hannibal's Footsteps

By: Levin, Bernard

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Sceptre: 1992

Seller ID: 11909

ISBN: 0340404337

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

223pp, illustrated softback covers. Colour photographs. A couple of light creases to spine, otherwise a clean, tight, Near Fine copy. Retracing Hannibal's journey over the Alps.
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Daphnis and Chloe

By: Longus

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1956

Seller ID: 14135

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Translated and with an Introduction by Paul Turner. 1250pp,including Notes, brown and white softback covers One mark to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and tight. Classical literature - a novel written in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D.
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Tragedy in Relation to Aristotle's Poetics

By: Lucas, E V

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hogarth: 1930

Seller ID: 14260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second impression of first edition. 158pp, yellow cloth covered red boards. Flyleaf removed, previous owner's name to inner board, otherwise internally clean. The second in the Hogarth Lectures on Literature series.
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The Golden Asse

By: Lucius Apuleius Edited By William Adlington

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Abbey Library:

Seller ID: 10213

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st thus. 235pp, green cloth covers, faded to spine. B + w head and tail-pieces. Owner's name on inner cover dated 1949.The translation into English of 1566, with an Introduction and Bibliography
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Lucreti De Rerum Natura Libri Sex Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit Cyrillus Bailey Editio Altera

By: Lucretius Edited By Cyril Bailey

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Oxford: 1935

Seller ID: 10265

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint of the second edition of 1931. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title. Introduction, Text and Notes in Latin. Original owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy.
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Greek Metre

By: Maas, Paul

Price: £52.00

Publisher: Oxford: 1962

Seller ID: 17054

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Translated by Hugh Lloyd Jones. 116pp. Complete dustjacket a very little worn to the edges. A couple of very small, very light spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally very clean. The classic guide to the elements of Ancient Greek poetry.
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Pompeii

By: Maiuri, Amedeo

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato: 1957

Seller ID: 13999

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Revised 9th edition. Translated into english by V Priestley.182pp, blue softback covers. Maps and b + b photographs. One small mark to foredge, otherwise a very clean copy of the official guidebook to the excavations.
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The National Archaeological Museum of Naples

By: Maulucci, Francesco Paolo

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Naples, Carcavallo: 1988

Seller ID: 10138

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

A large book of 157pp, with laminated illustrated card covers. Many colour illustrations. One light mark to foredge, otherwise a very clean, Near Fine copy. The finds from Pompeii, Herculaeum etc.
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A Rough and Rocky Place The Landscape and Settlement History of the Methana Peninsula Greece

By: Mee, Christopher and Forbes, Hamish (eds)

Price: £240.00

Publisher: Liverpool University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 17172

ISBN: 0853237417

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A large, heavy book. 370pp, laminated illustrated boards. B+ w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A very slight tanning to the page edges, otherwise As New. An Introduction and eleven papers by various authors on the landscape and history of Methana from prehistoric to modern times, the result of the Methana Survey Project sponsored by the British School at Athens and the University of Liverpool.
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The Principal Fragments

By: Menander Edited By Francis G Allinson

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Heinemann: 1930

Seller ID: 14767

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Loeb dual text classical library. 540pp, green cloth covered boards, with Dewey number and with a little wear to the top and bottom of the spine. B + w illustrations. Ex reference library - bookplate to inner board, a couple of small stamps, otherwise internally very clean. English Introduction, Greek and English text.
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Early Greece

By: Murray, Oswyn

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Fontana: 1983

Seller ID: 15727

ISBN: 0006333486

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

320pp, the paper browning with age, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. A classic account of how contact with the East acted to transform art and religion in Ancient Greece.
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The Aegean World Peloponnese Sporades Cyprus

By: Nawrath, Alfredet al

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Harrap: 1969

Seller ID: 9714

ISBN: 0245596860

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Large format. 117pp, hessian covered boards. Dustjacket with a little edgewear. 93 beautiful colour photographs.History and places on Greece, Cyprus and the Aegean Islands. Internally very clean.
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History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles with the Author's Final Additions Also His Antigonistikus or Spirit of Tertullian Vol I

By: Neander, Dr Augustus

Price: £10.50

Publisher: George Bell: 1876

Seller ID: 15472

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Translated by J E Ryland. 531pp, dark green cloth covered boards with embossed ornament and tilt title. A couple of passages marked, otherwise internally clean. Volume I of two. Part of the Bohn 's Standard Library.
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History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles with the Author's Final Additions Also His Antigonistikus or Spirit of Tertullian Vol II

By: Neander, Dr Augustus

Price: £7.50

Publisher: George Bell: 1876

Seller ID: 15473

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Translated by J E Ryland. 536pp, some of the pages still uncut. Dark green cloth covered boards with embossed ornament and tilt title. A few spots of light foxing, otherwise internally clean. Volume II of two. Part of the Bohn 's Standard Library.
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General History of the Christian Religion and Church Volume First

By: Neander, Dr Augustus and Morrison, Rev A J W

Price: £7.50

Publisher: George Bell: 1876

Seller ID: 15474

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Translated by Joseph Torrey. First volume only of the New edition, carefully revised by Rev A J W Morrison. 504pp - unread, some of the pages still uncut. Dark green cloth covered boards with embossed ornament and tilt title, worn to edge of spine. Gift plate to front inner board dated 1880, otherwise internally clean. Part of the Bohn 's Standard Library.
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Ars Amatoria

By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Folio Society: 1965

Seller ID: 104

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Translated by B P Moore. Drawings by Victor Reinganum. Crown 8vo, 128 pp. Quarter dark green leather, with a couple of tiny holes to the side of the spine, brown cloth sides.Internally clean.
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The Ancient World Part 1 1200 BC to 500 BC

By: Paret, Luigi, Brezzi, Paolo and Petech, Luciano

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Readers Union and Allen & Unwin: 1967

Seller ID: 3801

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

313pp, priceclipped dustjacket with a couple of short closed tears to the top edges, no loss. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. The formation of the great civilizations of East and West. Volume II of the Unesco History Of Mankind 'Culture and Scientific Development' is in 3 parts - this book is the first, covering 1200 BC to 500 BC.
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What to See in Greece A Pracical Guide

By: Penteas, E

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Athens, I. Sideris: 0000

Seller ID: 12832

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Probably mid 1960s. 233pp, illustrated softback covers, a little rubbed to edges. B + w illustrations and plans. 2 fold-out colour maps. Internally clean. A guide to the main classical sites of Greece and her islands.
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Category: Classical Literature & Culture