New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First Edition. Three-Quarter Leather.
First edition. Joints starting, endpapers soiled.
321 pp. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards. Color/gilt title page. Maps and engravings. The story of Nero is also the story of much of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The bloody legacies of the previous emperors.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
360 pp. Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with.....
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
606 pp. 100 illustrations; 16 pages of color; 5 maps. In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron.....
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.....
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.....
London / Wales: The Society of Antiquaries of London and National Museums & Galleries of Wales, 2000. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped.
xvii, 185 pp. Roman Fortresses and their Legions had its origins in a conference held in 1992, and contains 11 papers by leading.....
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1923. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1923 printing of the 'cheap edition' first released in 1915. Spines faded, otherwise excellent. Bindings tight, pages clean and unmarked.
xxiii, [1], 392, [4]; xiii, [3], 419 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles and rules. Black-and-white frontispieces and plates. A biography.....
Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Signed by author on half-title page with inscription, "For David, in friendship, 3/07/2017." A fine copy.
xx, 208 pp. The intellectual heritage of the Italian Renaissance rivals that of any period in human history. Yet even.....
Paris: Payot, 1929. Half-Leather.
Rebound in half leather. Ink gift note on front flyleaf, pages a bit toned.
366, [1] pp. Brown leather spine and corners over marbled boards, gilt titles and rules, marbled endpapers. A French-language history of Italy, by the Italian idealist philosopher who wrote on numerous topics.....
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket.
xxxii, 226 pp. Unlike earlier studies of the Marshall Plan, this volume concentrates not on events in Washington, but on those in France and Italy--the second and third largest beneficiaries of the Plan. Using U.S., French, and.....
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New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by.....
England: Bison Books, 1988. 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover.
Second printing. Bottom edge of jacket stained, jacket edges bumped.
256 pp. Abridged and illustrated. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Roman sites, paintings, line drawings and prints from archives throughout Europe.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourth printing. Minor general wear.
viii, 583 pp. Tracing the extraordinary trajectory of the great Roman emperor’s life, Goldsworthy covers not only the great Roman emperor’s accomplishments as charismatic orator, conquering general, and powerful dictator but also lesser-known chapters during.....
London: Phoenix, 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Sticker on rear cover.
412 pp. The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars.....
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
x, 531 pp. In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in Western.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Hard Cover.
Musty. Volume 1: Bottom edge of front jacket panel chewed. Both volumes: Some edge wear to jacket, some light smudges on page ridges.
xxi, 374; 431 pp. Two volume set. The complete and definitive edition of Gramsci's prison letters. Hailed by Terry.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Boards soiled and bowed, spine leans slightly to the right, ink mark on page base, pocket remains on rear paste-down endpaper.
381 pp. Giuseppe Mazzini, (born June 22, 1805, Genoa [Italy]—died March 10, 1872, Pisa, Italy), Genoese.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1938. da Vinci, Leonardo. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher slipcase. Lacks Sandglass. Slipcase stained, and rubbed with some surface tears. No jacket. Cloth spine soiled.
580 pp. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney and illustrated with 100 reproductions of the work of Leonardo da.....
New York: Grove Press, 2021. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xxxviii, 598 pp. On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion eleven months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto.....
Marlboro, Vermont: The Marlboro Press, 1988. Pennell, Joseph. Trade Paperback.
Page ridges foxed.
268 pp. Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Caught in bureaucratic limbo as he waited to hear whether his tenure as a consul in Venice was concluded, William Dean Howells decided to spend three months exploring some little-known regions.....
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;.....
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.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Small tear to jacket spine head, bottom corner of jacket bumped.
162 pp. Tipped in plates. 134 reproductions with 48 in large full color. Michelangelo, in full Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, (born March 6, 1475, Caprese, Republic.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957. Hard Cover.
Jacket stained, jacket edges rubbed, one inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. Page ridges lightly foxed, front hinge starting, ink name on frontispiece recto.
x, 374 pp. Black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. "This is an account.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Rear board lightly soiled.
420 pp. Illustrated with photographs. The author discusses the topography and cultural traditions of Italy as he observed them on a trip through the five southern regions.