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The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil Translated Into English Verse

By: Virgil

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Dent: 1111

Seller ID: 10310

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Everyman edition, of 1907. 182pp, pale green cloth covered boards, with darkened gilt flower ornament to the spine. Decorated endpapers and title pages. Internally clean. Introduction and verse translation by T F Royds.
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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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Proud Voiced Macedonia A Background for King Philip II and the Royal Burial Ground at Vergina

By: Wynne-Thomas, Joan

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Springwood: 1979

Seller ID: 16982

ISBN: 0905947568

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, Priceclipped illustrated dustjacket with a little rubbing to the edges. Colour frontispiece and b + w ilustrations. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwsie a clean copy. The reign of Philip II of Macedonia in Greece, the father of Alexander the Great, from 359 to 336 BC, and the royal tombs at Vergina and the sites of Aegae, Pella, Olynthos, the cult site of Dodona etc
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The Greek Commonwealth Politics and Economics in Fifth Century Athens

By: Zimmern, Alfred

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Oxford: 1961

Seller ID: 16122

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Revised fifth edition. 471pp, softback covers a little rubbed to edges. Internally clean and tight. The classic study of the economic conditions of ancient Athenian civilization.
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Category: Classical Literature & Culture