Halle (Saxony-Anhalt), Germany: Wischani and Burckhardt, 1908. First edition. 8vo. 95pp. Brown paper spine over stapled title page as issued. Parts of backstrip missing. Pages firmly held together. Some staining, creasing and foxing to title page and back page, not affecting text. Doctoral dissertation on the rhetoric of the famous... More about De Flavii Iosephi Belli Iudaici Scriptoris Studiis Rhetoricis
Boston: Damrell and Upham, 1893. Hardcover. Sm. folio. 40pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original dust wrapper. Beveled edges. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore- and bottom page edges. Eben Norton Horsford (1818-1893) was an American scientist who is known for his interest in Viking settlements... More about Leif's House in Vineland & Graves of the Northmen
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 618pp. Original photo illustrated dust jacket over white cloth with pictorial paste-down color plate on front board and gilt lettering on spine. "The story of the ancient near east is told here in an art-historical framework: the movements... More about Art of the Ancient Near East
London: MacMillan, 1962. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi,820pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Comprehensive survey of Roman history until the beginning of the Middle Ages. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs and maps, some in fold-out. Includes one colored fold-out map. Signed on free front endpaper by previous..... More about A History of Rome Down to the Reign of Constantine
New York: Nelson &Phillips, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). XVI, 352pp. Original gilt-stamped full morocco, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. All paper edges gilt. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. After sketching the great topographic features of Egypt, and spurning the present beneath... More about Israel in Egypt. Egypt's Place among the Ancient Monarchies
New York: H. S. Nicholis, 1913. Hardcover. 2 octavo volumes. xiv, 524 + vi, 600 pp. Purple cloth with lovely golden decorative Roman design on front cover and gold lettering on spines. Uneven pages. Some pages uncut. The author, Jacques Rogeras de Serviez (1679-1727) studied law at Montpellier. He was... More about The Roman Empresses or, the History of the Lives and Secret Intrigues of the Wives of the Twelve...
London: Cambridge University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original printed paper covered boards. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper, and dated May 1956. The Shahnama (Book of Kings) is the Persian national epic, and is generally accepted as one of the world's literary classics. Its... More about E.G. Browne Memorial Fund Series, Vol. II: The Reigns of Ardashir I & Shapur I Extracted from...
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. Ex-Library First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xviii, 446 (2)pp., 18 plates. Original blue cloth with richly gilt-illustrated decor and lettering on cover, gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Gilt edges. Blue endpapers. Frontispiece: folding engraving of panorama view of Rome, with folding tissue guard... More about Ancient Rome and its Connection with the Christian Religion
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2"). xviii, 494pp. Contemporary full blue calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Blind-stamped dentelles. Marbled endpapers and all paper edges. Engraved frontispiece. Welcomed as the best account of Julius Caesar in the... More about Caesar, A Sketch
Potomac: Capital Decisions, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 138pp. of text followed by 45pp. of plates. Light mint green cloth with gilt lettering and green title plate on cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and two corners lightly bumped. Minor rubbing and soiling to cover. Back corner slightly... More about Neo-Sumerian Administrative Texts of the Hirose Collection
Manchester: At the University Press, 1911. Hardcover. 8vo. xvii,162,xxiv,pp. Original wrappers bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine and corners rubbed. Scuffing and some staining to boards. Ex-libris of Hebrew Union College, Dr. Louis Grossmann Collection, on inside of front board. Frontisportrait of..... More about Journal of the Manchester Oriental Society 1911
Simferopol: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2001-2002. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (I): 270pp, (II): 348pp. Blue faux-leather boards with gild lettering on front and spine. Yearly report on archaeological research in the region of Bosphorus, presently Crimea. Funded by the philanthropic fund Demetra, and the Crimean chapter of the... More about Bosporskie Issledovaniia/Bosporos Studies. Vols. 1, 2 (2001-2002
Roma: La Libreria Dello Stato, 1942. 8vo. 144-180pp. Pamphlet stapled and bound in modern brown paper-covered binding with pasted-down original front wrapper. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA. Slight browning to outer edges of pages not affecting text. In Italian... More about La Cronaca Di Re Teodoro Attribuita Al Dabtara "Zaneb"
Athens: Greek National Line s. A., n/d. Hardcover. Ex-library. Sm. folio. 241pp. Gold-stamped maroon cloth in pictorial dust-jacket housed in original matching slipcase. "In this book an attempt is made to present the character and the work of the great Macedonian, during the thirteen years of his reign..." Profusely illustrated..... More about Macedonia - Alexander the Great
Paris: E. Leroux, 1880. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 319 pp. Original printed wrappers. Some staining to wraps, 1" tear at head of spine on rear wrap, front wrap stuck to 1/3 of front free end paper. Minor creasing to pages 64-98 at top corner, sporadic light foxing throughout. Text in... More about Histoire des Machabées ou Princes de la Dynastie Asmonéenne
Richmond: Jacob Johnson, 1806. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. iv. 338 pp. Old tree calf covered boards. Spine is cracked, with age wear to its top and bottom. Notes in pencil on front and rear endpapers. Signature of previous owner. Hinges starting, but firmly affixed. Yellowing and discoloration due to age... More about Sacred and Profane History Epitomized; With a Continuation of Modern History to the Present Time...
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1874. Hardcover. 8vo. 529pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and gold vignette on spine. Informative study on the customs, religions, laws and institutions of ancient Rome and Greece. Age wear and staining on binding. Head of spine chipped, small puncture and small closed tear near top... More about The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws and Institutions of Greece and Rome
New York: Graphic Society, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Large Folio. 224 pp. Olive cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Dj price clipped. Some closed tears, chipping and creasing to dj. Decorated endpapers. Fascinating book on Ancient Persia, published at the occasion of the 2,500th anniversary of the... More about Persia: The Immortal Kingdom
Wroclaw, Warsaw, Krakow: Zaklad Narodow Imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1966. Softcover. 8vo. 173 (2) pp. Original wrappers. Work on Ancient Roman History, written by renowned Polish scholar of Ancient History, Jerzy Linderski (see below). Minor age wear, some staining to wrappers, with minor browning throughout. Overall clean and... More about Rzymskie zgromadzenie wyborcze od Sulli do Cezara. (Polska Akademie Nauk - Oddzial W Krakowie:...
Genève: Georg & Cie (1896); Henry Kündig (1900-1906), 1896-1900-1906. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/4"). [4], 4pp (Text), 26 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1, part 1); 8pp (Text), 27-122 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1, part 2); 41, [1] (Tables of the first volume). Modern blue cloth, with gold lettering... More about Les Papyrus de Genève. Premier Volume : Papyrus Grecs, Actes et Lettres, Premier Fascicule...
Cambridge, Mass. Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 602pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Scuffing, discoloration and some staining to boards. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Corners bumped. Ex-Libris of Ricardo De Robina to inside of front board. "A... More about The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations
London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii. 408pp. Translated from the rom the French. Decorated light brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorated spine. Scuffing to spine. Head and tail of spine crudely repaired with modern tape. Corners bumped and worn. Wear to upper cover edge. Some... More about History of Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1936 & 1938. Reprint. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 418pp. xiv,387pp. Olive cloth with black decorated spine. Head and tail of spines slightly bumped and rubbed. Wear and bumping to corners and parts of edges. Minor staining and scuffing to boards and spines. Name and... More about A History of the Ancient World
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Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 195, [1]pp. Original illustrated paper covered boards. Inside of front cover inscribed and signed by Gunn Tepstad, author of the essay " Idioms in Egyptian Aramaic Legal Papyri (pp. 51-58). Collection of 16 essays on past and present cultures in the Middle... More about Understanding and History in Arts and Sciences [Inscribed and Signed
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 618pp. Original photo illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on front cover, black lettering on spine. White cloth boards with photo illustrated plate pasted on front cover with gilt lettering on spine. Photo illustrated front end papers. "The story... More about Art of the Ancient Near East