London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 216 pages. Black and white photographs, line drawings, and maps. Number 85 in the Ancient Peoples and Places Series. Photographic dust jacket is faded along front panel, spine, and top edge and near spine of rear panel. Creased along top and..... More
New Delhi: People's Publishing House, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pages. Prinetd dust jacket with Rs 10.00 price inact. Beige boards with spine stamped in black. Dust jacket is lightly chipped along edges and toned at spine and edges. Boards are heavily foxed, and lightly worn at edges..... More
![The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Twelve Volumes]. Edward Gibbon](/images/noimage.png)
London: Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, In The Poultry, 1806. "A New Edition." Twelve Octavo Volumes Complete. Frontis portrait and two fold-out maps to volumes 1 and 2. Full contemporary tree-calf with black and red labels and gilt decoration to spine. Worn along edges; corners bumped; some loss to..... More
London: British Museum Publications Limited, 1923-1962. Reprinted, corrected, or second editions of all volumes. Octavo; Vol I Augustus to Vitellius ccxxxi + 464pp + 64 plates; Vol II Vespasian to Domitian cv + 485pp + 83 plates; Vol III Nerva to Hadrian cxcvi + 640pp + 102 plates; Vol IV..... More
New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1868. "Third Edition, from the Fifth Revised English Edition." Octavo; Vol I [xvi] + 430pp; Vol II 457pp. Brown pebbled publisher's cloth with gold lettering and rules on spine crowns and feet; bust of Homer stamped in gold on front panels; same image blind-stamped..... More
Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, 1859. Octavo; xv + 560pp + Index of Important Topics 6pp (separately paginated) + Index of Complete Vocabulary 61pp (separately paginated). Entirely in Latin. Rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine; no trimming of leaves or reduction of gutter during rebinding. Pages of principal..... More
![Peoples of the Sea [Ages in Chaos Series]. Immanuel Velikovsky](/pictures/thumb/5264.jpg?v=1564765559)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. Stated First Edition. Signed by Velikovsky on flyleaf to author and columnist William Safire with inscription "A ramming rod to break down the centuries old 'history' of the ancient east. // For slow reading only. Read first the Alexander chapter -- he meeting an..... More
![Archaeologia Graeca, or the Antiquities of Greece [William Safire Copy; Two Volumes]. John Potter](/pictures/thumb/6323.jpg?v=1591294856)
Edinburgh: Mundell, Doig, & Stevenson: and for J. Nunn [et al.], 1808. Two Octavo Volumes. 521 pages + Index; 418 pages + Index. 28 black and white plates (2 in volume one; 22 in volume two) portraying the government, military, and sports of Ancient Greece. Full speckled calf gilt tooled..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 339 pages. 4 fold-out maps to rear. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Green cloth over marbled paper covered boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Moderate wear to boards; cracked at bottom corners and spine ends. Cracked at hinge but binding is sound..... More
![Un Bal chez les Étoiles [A Dance Among the Stars]. Mathilde Vonwiller, Colette Sauter](/pictures/thumb/5835.jpg?v=1576609380)
Lausanne: Roth et Sauter / Au Verseau, 1966. First Edition. Quarto; unpaginated [32pp]. Thirty-two full-layout illustrated pages with incorporated "hand cursive" text. Bound in stiff card with deep reverse flaps. Binding and pages printed throughout in wedgewood blue on off-white, with text in red. Entirely in French. Binding edge-folds..... More
Third Edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893. Third Revised Edition. Octavo; xxxix, 149pp. Red leather with gilt stamped "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" (City School of London) crest on front, with gilt dentelles and spine ornamentation, gauffered edges, and a small black leather title card to spine. Marbled page edges. Boards lightly..... More
Boston: Charles T. Branford Company, [ca. 1950]. Reprint of 1917-1930. Two Large Octavo Volumes. Volume One: 158 p. + 246 p. Volume Two: 158 p., 101 p., + 253 p. Five separate title pages and all six books of the Enneads included. Lacks acknowledgments. Dark blue cloth with..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1846. Stated "Three Volumes in Two." Octavo; Vol I 536pp; Vol II 509pp [+ 9pp of publisher prospectuses bound in]. Brown cloth. Gilt stamped emblem on front panel of both volumes; gilt lettering on spines. Both spines battered crown and foot, some peeling..... More