Category: Ancient History

Book is in excellent condition with Very Light shelf wear only to covers, otherwise As New. Binding is solid and square, , exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 288 pages with a huge number of b&w prints, a few in color of coins. Cover the period from 500 B.C. to A.D. 700.
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The Etruscans

By: Pallottino, Massimo; edited by David Ridgway

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Allen Lane : 1975

Seller ID: 155050

ISBN-13: 9780713902181

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 318 pages. 102 plates in black and white.
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Return to an Ancient City: Ostia

By: Pascolini, Aldo

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Armando Publisher

Seller ID: 153795

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 1/2"w x 11 5/8"h. 94 pages. Black and white drawings. Separate folded map with small blemish on index.
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Shrines of Tut-Ankh-amon

By: Plankoff, Alexandre

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Harper and Row : 1962

Seller ID: 153768

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 149 pages with 67 b&w illustrations. This is 2nd volume in a series of works on Egyptian religious texts. Contents includes Amon-Re, god of Thebes, Theology of Aton, Maat, Goddess of truth, Funerary ceremonies, Mummification, The viscera, The heart, Nut, the coffin, The book of the dead, The watery abyss, Nun, Book of the divine cow. Contains the first translation of the hieroglyphic text inscribed on the four shrines...
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Rise and Fall of Athens, The: Nine Greek Lives By Plutarch: Theseus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander

By: Plutarch

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Penguin : 1960

Seller ID: 151622

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition with lightly sunned spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile. Trans by Ian Scott-Kilvert, map at back. Publisher's page marked "First Published 1960"
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Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives By Plutarch: Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero

By: Plutarch Warner, Rex (trans.)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Penguin : 1958

Seller ID: 151928

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition with back cover a bit scuffed, age toned paper, faded spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. First Penguin ed. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile.
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The Secret History

By: Procopius; G.A. Williamson (translator); Philip Ziegler (introduction)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Folio Society : 1993

Seller ID: 152226

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. In Very Good slipcase with slight wear and scuffing. 152 pages. 6 1/4"w x 9"h. Illustrations.
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Everyday Things in Ancient Greece

By: Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B.

Price: $25.50

Publisher: B.T. Batsford : 1960

Seller ID: 151860

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners in bright orange cloth with gilt print as spine, colored upper page ends. Pretty book. Exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for long inscription from prev. owner on front end paper. Dust jacket shows edge wear, small tears, price clipped. Contents include: Homeric Greece: the Iliad, Odyssey, Archaig Greece, : herodotus, Classical Greece: Architecture, Sea fights, Battles, etc. 183 illustrations: line drawings, b&w photos, a few color plates.
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Athletries The Untold History of Ancient Greek Women Athletes

By: Reese, Anne, ; Athletries The Untold History of Ancient Greek Women Athletes Vallera-Rickerson, Irini

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Nightowl Publications : 2002

Seller ID: 152433

ISBN-13: 9780971498402

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, light corner wear, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 189 pages with b&w photos and illustrations, maps. Contents include: Pelops and Hippodamia, The Heraean festival, Story of Chloris, Kallipatira, Pythian games, Namean games, Isthmian games, Status of women in ancient Greece, The Heraea, etc.
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Sulle Tracce Del Mito: Dei Ed Eroi Greci, Tra Archeologia e Storia Delle Religioni

By: Ribichini, Sergio

Price: $11.18

Publisher: De Agostini Periodici : 2007

Seller ID: 108992

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Pages slightly wavy.
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The Greek House: Its History and Development from the Neolithic Period to the Hellenistic Age

By: Rider, Bertha Carr

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : 1916

Seller ID: 099134

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Vinyl binding.
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Oracles & Sibyls: Telling the Future in the Past

By: Robert Wilhelm

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Jackdaw : 1997

Seller ID: 119693

ISBN-13: 9781566961325

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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The Art of Ancient Mexico

By: RYAN, Marianne (ed)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London / Milan, South Bank Centre / Olivetti / Electa : 1992

Seller ID: 135268

ISBN-13: 9781853320910

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Covers show light shelf wear, chip at lower front corner. Binding is solid and text/ interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. From an exhibition held at The Hayward Gallery, London17 September - 6 December, 1992. 309 pages, a comprehensive text, lavishly illustrated with a great many large, full page, full color plates of individual sculptures, mostly in ceramic and stone.
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Greatness That Was Babylon, The: a Sketch of the Ancient Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley

By: Saggs, J.W.F.

Price: $18.50

Publisher: New American Library (Mentor) : 1968

Seller ID: 153753

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition with slight fading to spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 535 pages with a great many illustrations. Contents include: Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Assyria, Syria, canal making, irrigation, democracy, semetic forces, slavery, child care, food, housing, clothing, hair styles, marriage sexual relations, health, social misfits, Lipit-Ishtar, Eshunna, Hammurabi, etc. Copyright 2011 Pistil Books
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Jugurthine War Conspiracy of Catiline

By: Sallust; Handford, S.A. (trans, intro)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Penguin : 1963

Seller ID: 151926

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save ex-libris stamp at half-title page. 240 pages.
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Shell Inscriptions [undeciphered inscriptions]

By: Salomon, Richard

Price: $88.79

Publisher: Calcutta, India, Centre of Advanced Study in Ancient Indian History and Culture University of CValcutta : 1980

Seller ID: 132030

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

65 pages with several pages of b&w photos at rear Book shows light use only, covers show light wear, no marking of any kind to text/interior.
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ERIC VOEGELIN'S SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE MODERN MIND

By: Sandoz, Ellis; Kenneth W. Thompson; Stephen A. McKnight; Lewis P. Simpson; Paul Carlingella; Paul Grimley Kuntz

Price: $43.50

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press : 1991

Seller ID: 154063

ISBN-13: 9780807115886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 218 pages. Contents include: Voegelin and politics, Voegelin's new science of history, Voegelin and the story of the clerks, Voegelin: philosopher of divine pressence, etc.
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ERIC VOEGELIN'S SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE MODERN MIND

By: Sandoz, Ellis; Kenneth W. Thompson; Stephen A. McKnight; Lewis P. Simpson; Paul Carlingella; Paul Grimley Kuntz

Price: $43.75

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press : 1991

Seller ID: 154065

ISBN-13: 9780807115886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 218 pages. Contents include: Voegelin and politics, Voegelin's new science of history, Voegelin and the story of the clerks, Voegelin: philosopher of divine pressence, etc.
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Category: Ancient History

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