Ithica and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Hard Cover. 8vo. xiii, 248 p.p. Cloth. No marks to dust-jacket. Slight rubbing to spine ends. Letters CW written on top edge of pages. Previous owner's inscription to f.f. endpaper. Overall, a fine copy of book. This book educates readers on the music... More about Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Hard Cover. 8vo. xi, 500 p.p. Ex-library copy, library stamp to half title and library rules slip tipped in on rear pastedown. Endpapers have ads for Bohn's Standard Library volumes. Blue cloth boards with blind tooled border and elaborate publisher's device to boards, gilt titling... More about Erotica. The Elegies of Propertius, the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, and the Kisses of...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1987. Levy, Pamela R. Soft Cover. 8vo. Cover designed by Diane Levy. ix, 181 pp. 12 Illustrations of Greek culture, throughout the book. Book based on four Carl Newell Jackson lectures presented at Harvard University in April 1982. No major defects. More about Ancient Mystery Cults [Carl Newell Jackson Lectures Series
London: Routledge, 1979. Hard Cover. 8vo. ix, 410 p.p. Cloth. Includes maps of Sparta and Lakonia. No marks to jacket or boards, as new. In this revised and updated edition of Cartledge's groundbreaking study, he uncovers the truths and realities of Sparta, Greece. More about Sparta and Lakonia. A Regional History 1300-362 B.C
London: Routledge, 1993. Soft Cover. 8vo. 210 p.p. Paperback. No marks, as new. This book presents how life was in the Bronze Age, with pictures, and illustrations by the author. More about Minoans. Life in Bronze Age Crete
London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1883. Hard Cover. 12mo. Seventh thousand. 257 p.p. A.E.G. Half-bound morrocco leather over red cloth boards. Presentation copy by T. Collins, H.M. of Newport Grammar School, 1885. Newport Grammar School logo on front board. 24 illustrations throughout book from designs by Flaxman, John and others... More about Stories From the Greek Tragedians
London: Typis academicis. Impensis Cornelii Crownfield, Celeberrimae Academiae Typographi. Prostant apud Jacobum Knapton, Rob. Knaplock, & Paulum Vaillant, bibliopolas Londinenses, 1718. Hard Cover. 8vo. ...L.L.D. Coll. Regin. Cantab. Magister, & Canonicus Eliensis. Accedunt emendationes cl. Joannis Walkeri, A.M. Coll. Trin. Socii. 372 p.p. Latin. Leather. No jacket. Speckled page ends..... More about M. Tullii Ciceronis De natura deorum libri tres. Cum notis integris Paulli Manucii, Petri...
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1960. Hard Cover. 8vo. 162 p.p. Original green cloth with gilt titling on spine. Dust jacket a little sunned at head, light wear to spine ends, and one small tear to rear at head, else fine. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar to front pastedown. Sticker... More about Wonders of Antiquity
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition, second impression. 267 p.p. Green cloth boards with black lettering to spine and device to front board. Light bumping to spine ends. Illustrated dust jacket has some wear to spine ends, edges and corners, chip to spine heel at... More about The Golden Honeycomb
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition. 267 p.p. Red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Light bumping to spine ends and corners, and sunning to top edge.. Illustrated dust jacket is price clipped and has some wear to spine ends, edges and corners.Twelve unnumbered... More about The Golden Honeycomb
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1966. Hard Cover. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. Reprinted from the 1834 edition. xxi, 362 p.p. [1 blank], xiv, [1], 544 p.p. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Spine ends and corners are bumped. Spine is sunned. Bookseller sticker of Parkers of Oxford to front... More about Apollonii Citiensis, Stephani, Palladii, Theophili, Meletii, Damascii, Ioannis, Alorium Scholia...
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Hard Cover. 8vo. vi, 218 p.p. Black cloth boards with gilt titling and publisher's device to spine in red dust jacket. Some rubbing to dust jacket, tear to spine head, not affecting text, and sunning to spine. Text is bright and clean. This selection of... More about The Ancient Concept of Progress, and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo (super). xxvii, 470 p.p., xxxvi, 277 p.p. Two volumes bound as one. First Thus. First puplished in 2 vols in 1945. Pictorial soft cover with Greek palm design. A few scuffs to tail edge, but otherwise a fine copy. Throughout... More about Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Title in gilt on spine. xii, 311 p.p., plus 16 p.p. ads. Small dampstain to lower front board. Covers scratched, scuffed. Light wear to spine ends and tips. Pages lightly browned, otherwise interior clean. In very good... More about Greece and Babylon: a Comparative Sketch of Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Hellenic Religions
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Original jacket and red cloth. Title lettered in black with five labyrinth motifs stamped on spine. 274 p.p. with in-text illustrations of maps and plans. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown. The book examines Ancient Greek City-States..... More about Greek City-States
New York: D. Appelton & Co., 1876. Hardcover. 12mo. History Primers series. Original red boards, title lettered in black on front board and spine, with Primers series titles to rear board, 127 pp., illustrated with four maps of Ancient Greece, including frontispiece. Frontispiece starting from title page at gutter, pages... More about History of Greece
Amstelodami: Lodewijk Elzevier, 1651. Hardcover. 12mo. Full vellum binding with yapped edges and lettered spine. [48] 498 p.p., [120] p.p. Illustrated title page, lower half of t.p. trimmed [approx. 12.7mm], not affecting text. Some soiling to spine and covers. Light foxing, otherwise interior clean, crisp. In very good condition. Aulus... More about Noctes Atticae: Editio nova et prioribus omnibus docti hominis cura multo castigatior
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. xx, 416 p.p. [19 p.p. ads]. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling and device to front cover. Dust jacket has some bumping to ends and sunning to spine and edges. Sticker of W. Heffer & Sons Ltd... More about The Greek City and Its Institutions
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. x, [1], 216 p.p. Green cloth boards with brown titling to spine. Some bubbling to cloth at fore edge of front board, bumping to spine ends. Colour illustrated dust jacket has bumping and wear to spine ends, sunning to... More about Roman Hellenism and The New Testament
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1942. Hard Cover. 8vo. 347 pp. Book of C.B. Farrar and invoice from Book-of-the-Month Club for C.B. Farrar dating to 1958. Light bumping to corners. Rubbing to spine ends of book and jacket. Book and Jacket in Near Fine condition. More about The Greek Way
New York: University Books, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Second Printing. lvi, 600 p.p. with numerous in-text illustrations. Small tears to jacket spine and edges, with minor chip to head of front front cover, but text unaffected. Wear to boards and edges. Spine ends bruised. Interior clean. In very good condition... More about Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion and Themis. a Study of the Social Origins of the Greek...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hard Cover. 8vo. Everyman's Library Series. xxi, 594 p.p., [2 leaves]. Mauve cloth boards with black spine label and gilt lettering. Cropped front cover and flap of original dust jacket laid in at rear. Ribbon marker. Small spot of soiling to tail edge of... More about The Iliad
Oxonia [Oxford]: Ex ergaste¯riou typographikou Akademias te¯s en Oxonia, 1801. Hardcover. 4to. Vol. 4 of 4 only [Vol. 2 of Odyssey]. Quarter-bound green boards and tan spine. Spine unlettered. 314 p.p. Wear to corners and edges. Slight bruising at spine-ends. Small nicks at outer-edges. Small round dampstains to boards. Hinges... More about Homerou Ilias kai Odysseia
New York: The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Original jacket and publishers quarter-cloth blue boards and orange spine. Bline device on front board. Blue endpapers. xii, 279 p.p. Frontispiece, plus [5] leaves of photographs. A fascinating biography of Arthur Evans and his discovery of the labyrinth Palace at Knossos. Light... More about The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2003. Soft Cover. 8vo (medium). Unabridged eprint of the second edition of Ancient Greek, Roman & Byzantine Costume and Decordation, originally published in 1947. ix, 182 p.p. With numerous illustrations of various styles of costume. Light rubbing to jacket edges. Some scuffing to rear cover... More about Ancient Greek, Roman & Byzantine Costume