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Pals A Town Of Archaeology And Tourism

By: Surinach, Juan Marques

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Edigol: 1979

Seller ID: 6178

ISBN: 8485406028

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Softback guide with an introduction and many colour plates to Pals, a town of Roman origin with many medieval buildings, in the Costa Brava region of Spain. Text in English. A clean copy.
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The Gentleman's Magazine September 1743

By: Sylvanus Urban, Gent.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: E Cave: 1743

Seller ID: 16466

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

An original edition of this newspaper/ magazine. 55pp, with modern tape strengthening to the spine. Internally very clean and tight. The contents include parliamentary reports especially on the War, disguised as proceedings in the Senate of Lilliput, objections to Mr Yates' theory of comets, the discovery of 'a subterraneous city near Mount Vesuvius' (Herculaneum), fortifications, the battle of Dettingen, list of spanish ships captured, cricket matches, remedy for the plague and the words and music of The Faithful Shepherdess set by Mr Howard, poetry, chronicle and register of books, plays...
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The Gentleman's Magazine November 1743

By: Sylvanus Urban, Gent.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: E Cave: 1743

Seller ID: 16468

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

An original edition of this newspaper/ magazine. 57pp, with modern tape strengthening to the spine. Internally very clean and tight. The contents include parliamentary reports especially on the War, disguised as proceedings in the Senate of Lilliput, the phenomena of Lambourn Stream, Berkshire, path of the moon, Horace's Testudo & Mutis explained, an account of Greenland, Muscovy, transit of Mercury, fortifications, a ltter on the discovery of 'a subterraneous city near Mount Vesuvius' (Herculaneum), fortifications, M Croufaz on Pope's Essay on Man, Matthew xxvii 46, poetry, including an o...
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The Satyricon of T Petronius Arbiter Burnaby's Translation 1694

By: T. Petronius Arbiter and Burnaby

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Simpkin Marshall:

Seller ID: 12015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Abbey Classics edition, probably 1930s. Introduction by C K Scott Moncrieff, Biographical Note, and text of the Satyricon. B + w illustrations. Blue cloth covered boards, a little rubbed to spine. Booksellers stamp to endpapers, otherwise internally very clean.
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The Annals of Imperial Rome

By: Tacitus

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1964

Seller ID: 15614

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Penguin Classics series, translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Grant. 447pp, the page edges browning a little with age, illustrated soft covers with a crease to one corner. Maps. Internally very clean and tight.
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Havton Timorvmenos Hauton Timorumenos

By: Terence P Terenti Edited By J H Gray

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Cambridge: 1933

Seller ID: 10307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Pitt Press series. 173pp, gray boards. Latin text and English Introduction and Notes. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, extensive pencil notes to the text, otherwise clean.
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A History of Greece Vol II

By: Thirlwall, Connop, Bishop of St David's

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans: 1111

Seller ID: 16392

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Probably 1830s. 402pp, dark green boards with a few light marks to the front board, with gilt title and stamped orders. Vignette illustration to title page. Previous owner's name and Oxford college to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The second volume includes civil history of Attica to the expulsion of the Pisistratids, the Colonies, Art and literature from the Homeric Age to the Persian War, Asiatic Greeks, Marathon, Salamis, to the end of the Persian Invasion etc
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Thucydides Translated Into English Vol I Essay on Inscriptions and Books I - III

By: Thucydides Edited By Benjamin Jowett

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Oxford: 1900

Seller ID: 14676

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Revised Second edition. 267pp. Red cloth covered boards, with a little wear to top of spine. Ex reference library - bookplate to inner board, a couple of small blind stamps, otherwise internally clean. Includes An Essay on Inscriptions and a Note on the Geography of Thucydides and a translation of Books I - III
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Historiae Tomus Prior Libri I - IV

By: Thucydides Edited By Henricus Stuart Jones

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Oxford: 1936

Seller ID: 12558

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint of the 1898 edition. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, some underlining. Latin Preface, Greek text and footnotes
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Peoples of the Past

By: Todd, James and Janet Maclean

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Arrow: 1963

Seller ID: 8521

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

352pp, browning a little. Softback covers creased to spine. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. Events and people from Jericho, Ur and Crete to the Greeks and Romans.
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Attic Letter Cutters of 229 to 86 B C

By: Tracy, Stephen V

Price: £16.50

Publisher: University of California: 1990

Seller ID: 16786

ISBN: 0520068068

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

291pp, complete dustjacket, sun faded to the spine. B + w illustrations. Original owner's name to flyleaf, otherwsie internally very clean. A detailed study of all observable inscriptions for the last century and a half of real Athenian independence.
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Max Notes Euripides Medea and Electra

By: Underiner, Tamara L

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Research & Education Association: 1996

Seller ID: 15125

ISBN: 0878910131

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

113pp, softback covers. A clean, tight copy. Student Notes for two plays by Euripides, Medea and Electra, with plot summary, characters, analysis, questions etc.
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Vergil Aeneid Book IV A Translation

By: Vergil and A A Irwin Nesbitt

Price: £5.00

Publisher: University Tutorial Press:

Seller ID: 11509

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Probably 1930s. 21pp, soft covers. Staples now rusty, otherwise a very clean copy. A literal English translation of Book IV of the Aeneid.
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Carthage

By: Warmington, B H

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Penguin Pelican: 1964

Seller ID: 17216

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

286pp, the paper browning a little with age. Illustrated blue and white softback covers. B + w illustrations and map A clean, tight, copy. The archaeology and history of the Carthaginians over several centuries of warfare, and their ultimate defeat.
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Greek Terracottas

By: Webster, T B L

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1950

Seller ID: 10324

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

King Penguin. 36pp and 53 b + w plates. Decorated boards and complete matching dustjacket with a couple of short closed tears. Owner's name under turnover, otherwise very clean.
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Greece and the Islands

By: Wheeler, Sir Mortimer

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Travel Book Club: 1961

Seller ID: 302

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

176 pp, red boards, illustrated dustjacket with a little wear to the edges. Maps of Athens and the Islands. A few spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean.
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Roman History Life and Literature

By: White, G W and Kennedy, E C

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Macmillan: 1950

Seller ID: 11501

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

335pp, red cloth covered boards, fold-out maps. Previous owner's name on inner board, education committee stamp on title page, a couple of light spots of foxing on foredge, otherwise internally clean. Parts I and II History are by White, Part III Life and Literature is by Kennedy
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The Baths of Aphrodite

By: Willetts, R F

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Celtion: 1979

Seller ID: 6935

ISBN: 0860530302

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

45pp, dustjacket designed by Mikeith, a little rubbed to the edges. Gift inscription to Lod and Lady Hunter SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. Poetry with a classical theme - the author was Professor of Greek in the University of Birmingham.
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Britain B C

By: Winbolt, S E

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Pelican Penguin.: 1945

Seller ID: 14018

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

160pp, the edges now browning with age, blue and white softback covers. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise clean and tight. The story of the Romans in Britain.
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Reflections on The Rise and Fall of The Ancient Republicks Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain

By: Wortley Montagu, Edward

Price: £56.00

Publisher: J Rivington and Sons T Longman S Crowder T Cadell T Becket and W Fox: 1770

Seller ID: 16516

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Fourth edition. 392pp. Leather covered boards, worn to the covers and with some loss of the leather covering, spine cracked but holding. Names of previous owners to flyleaves and a note to the title page that the author was the husband of the blue stocking Elizabeth Robinson (which is not true - though the author had a lively matrimonial career), otherwise internally clean. Chapters on the Greek cities, Rome and the causes of its decline, and on revolutions, and the British constitution. The author was the son of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and had an adventurous life. His parents appear to have...
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Category: Classical Literature & Culture