New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Hard Cover.
Edge wear.
xxvi, 334 pp. "Of all Roman emperors none, with the possible exception of Nero, surpasses Caligula's reputation for infamy. But was Caligula really the mad despot and depraved monster of popular legend or the victim of hostile ancient historians? In.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876. Hard Cover.
Gallus: Front hinge starting. Both volumes: Some loss to spine head and to spine base, ink stamp and ink name on front endpapers.
xxi, 535; xxi, 512 pp. Two volume set. Wilhelm Adolf Becker's classics works on life in ancient Greece and.....
Dafni, Greece: Periscopio Publications, 2007. Giannopoulos, C.; Fronimidis, R.; Ginala, M. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Top corner bumped.
100 pp. The definitive history of the fabled battle at the pass of Thermopylae. For 2 and 1/2 days Spartan King Leonidas lead his 300 along with a contingent of.....
Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket faded, front jacket panel creased. Blind stamp on half-title page.
ix, 288 pp. Endpapers illustrated with maps of the Roman Empire A.D. 244-284. Heavily illustrated with pictures of coins of.....
New York: International Collectors Library, 1946. Hard Cover.
Front joint starting.
356 pp. Original green leatherette hardcover binding with gold lettering & design, gilt top page ridge, green ribbon marker. "The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1954. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Toledano 032.1, 1954-9 printing, binding style 8, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine slightly faded.
xv, 424 pp. Introduction by Hajo Holborn. The book is one of the best accounts of the colorful period of Italian life and thought between.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1954. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1954 first thus, Toledano 032.4, binding/jacket style 8i with 374 titles on verso, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in good jacket. Jacket price clipped, rear jacket panel discolored, cover spine slightly faded though jacket spine is not, indicating that.....
Italy: Pontifical Sanctuary of Pompeii, 1990. Large Softcover.
Minor general wear.
202 pp. Collaboration between three friends of the Sanctuary: Msgr. Pietro Caggiano, Prof. Michele Rak and Prof. Angelo Turchini, has given us an authentic trilogy of "popular sacredness." In their own particular fields, each of them has "seen" the.....
New York: Modern Library, 1927. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus (Toledano 3.2). Flexible boards. Edges lightly rubbed, front hinge starting.
485 pp. "The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1925. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1925-9 printing. Toledano 003.2, 4c, 95 cent jacket price, unnumbered title list on verso, yellow Bernhard endpapers. Very good in good example of scarce jacket. Jacket toned, minimal loss from jacket corners.
485, [4] pp. "The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. Cornelisen, Ann. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Personal copy of Abraham A. Rothberg with his blind stamp on the title page. Rothberg was a Jewish author whose books reimagined traditional Jewish stories and legends, and touched on themes relevant to the diaspora. Ink.....
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark.
xvii, 333 pp. In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be.....
Washington, D.C. Center of Military History, United States Army, 1993. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
1993 printing of the work first released in 1977, reissued as a 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition. Spine and front corner creased, edges rubbed.
xxiv, 584 pp. Includes 27 maps, 92 illustrations, appendix, bibliographical note, glossary, and index.....
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2010. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Rear jacket panel scratched. Pages lightly toned.
xxii, 298 pp. By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople.....
San Francisco: D.P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition. One of 300 copies. Spine cracked, rear board soiled, some pages lightly foxed.
306 pp. Top edge gilt. Color fold-out map follows text. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Katharine Putnam Hooker (May 2, 1849 – July 20, 1935).....
Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2000. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. A fine copy.
xiii, 761 pp. The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Pencil name on front free endpaper.
302 pp. Teal-grey cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: Up and Down Madeira; Two Up-town Blocks into Spain;.....
Pennsylvania: Dorrance & Company, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "For Joyce Baker--I hope you enjoy reading of my adventures--before ARCO! Eugenia Kielar 11/30/87." Two small tears to jacket edges, jacket clipped, faint stain on front jacket flap.
220 pp. Eugenia Kielar graduated from.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Light edge wear.
416 pp. "In the 100-year struggle for Palestine, history itself has been a battlefield, as Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs seek to challenge each other's claim to national identity. Whatever the outcome of the current phase.....
New York: Hearst Books, 1994. Robledo, Maria. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Boards lightly bowed, pages faintly toned. Jacket lightly bumped.
144 pp. "Move over pasta and pizza, here come panini, bruschetta and crostini! The world of sandwiches, Italian style. But not sandwiches oozing mayonnaise and dripping with calories. Viana's panini are.....
Greece: Enaretos Press, 2007. Signed Copy. Soft Cover.
Signed by author on dedication page with inscription, "To Meghan and Scott - love and enjoy Greece - with best wishes!" A fine copy.
417 pp. Tells the story of the author's long journey as a young bride arriving from America to.....
Paris: Telleri, 2003. Large Softcover.
Pages very faintly toned.
223 pp. "Celebrates Florence's glorious feast of artistic, architectural, and sculptural creativity during this period of enlightened patronage."
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.
Fifth printing. Jacket spine lightly faded. Blind stamp on front free endpaper.
351 pp. In this deeply personal and learned labor of love, R.W.B. Lewis provides a new look at the glories of Florence, the smallish Tuscan city which.....
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New York: Merrill and Baker, 1895. Limited Edition. Half-Leather.
Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. No date - late 19th century, probably 1890s. Edges rubbed.
Part of a larger history of various countries, but these two volumes comprise the full portion dedicated to Greece. Red leather spines & corners, marbled.....
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1907. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly soiled, gilt on spine rubbed.
viii, 362 pp. Illustrated. CONTENTS: Lakes of Azure; The Making of the Lakes; Pallanza; The Borromean Islands: Isola, Bella, Isola Dei Pescatori, Isola Madre, Isola San Giovanni; Lower Lago.....