Search Results: Ancient Rome from Minotavros Books

Florentiae: S.A.G. Barbera, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. blue cloth with gilt device to upper front board, xxv, 636pp. Rear free endpaper torn, some markings and a small white stain to rear board, o/w very good. A source book of Roman Statutes.

Florentiae: S.A.G. Barbera, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 18mo. Orig. blue cloth. xiii, 798 pp. Light rubbing to extremities. Parkers of Oxford bookseller label to front pastedown. Fine overall.

Florentiae: S.A.G. Barbera, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. blue cloth with gilt device to upper front board, xxii, 513 pp. Rear free endpaper torn, some markings and a small white stain to rear board, o/w very good. A source book of Roman Statutes.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Reprinted with plates from the first edition. Full green buckram. vii, 331 pp. B&W maps in text. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, a few stains, sunned and rubbed to spine, 1" tear to foot of front joint, sticker ghost to front flap. Geographic environment is now recognized as an important influence on human history. Professor Cary makes a comprehensive study of this influence on the world of Greece and Rome.

New York: Hogarth Press. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. N.d., later reprint [ca. 1946 or later?]. Full green cloth. 359 pp. [6] B&W plate illustrations, "with numerous decorations as occasion serves." Rubbing to extremities, foxing to cloth at front board. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is age toned, chipped to extremities. Dust jacket indicates "Crown Publishers," which is the New York associate of Chatto & Windus, who acquired Hogarth Press (Virginia and Leonard Woolf's printing house, based in London) as an associate company in 1946. This title was originally published in 1924, but given the association with Crown this copy likely dates to the late 1940s or later. 0.

Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1830. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Rebacked with full brown cloth spine, enw paper spine label, original tree calf boards. x, 11-237 pp. some scuffing and rubbing to boards, bumping and wear to corners. Foxing to endpapers. Some damp staining to top and tail around gutter. Some foxing and rust staining to interior.

Washintong, D.C.: National Geographic Magazine, 1946. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Orig. grey card wraps. 545-634 pp. Numerous illustrations in colour and B&W. Tanning to edges of wraps, bumping to spine ends. Near fine.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage Series XI. First paperback edition. Soft cover. xxi, 524. Some sunning to covers, else fine and clean to interior.

Amstelaedami: Stephanum Roger, 1710. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. Together with Heinrich Hamelow's Imperatores Romani a Julio Caesare , usque ad Sacratissimum Imperatorem [Amstelaedami: Petrum de Coup, 1710], with seperate title pages and pagination. Full mottled calf, raised bands and gilt compartments, [9] 290 pp.; 29 pp. Illustrated title page (dated 1707 with different printers], title page printed in black and red with engraved vignette. With [165] engravings of Roman Emperors. Some smudges and light foxing to leaves, image to text offsetting from engravings, dampstaining to front free endpaper and fly leaves (transfering to illustrated half-title and upper margins of title page], bruising to bottom edges of boards, corners worn, title worn from upper compartment, spine rubbed but otherwise a very good copy.

Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Translated by Joseph Solodow. Full green cloth. xxxiii, 827 pp. Very slight rubbing to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket slightly sunned at flaps. Fine overall. This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a bibliographic work, a literary study, and a reader's handbook, this book is the first work of its kind to appear in English in nearly four decades.

Padova: Stabilimento Tip, 1871. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Orig. wrappers, 58pp. Wrappers disbound, with some unopened pages. From the library of United Nations Col. De Guinzbourg, a noted collector of proverbs. Embossed ex-library stamp on upper front cover, but still a very good copy. A collection of the moral maxims of Publius Syrus.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Black cloth, 226pp. Cloth a bit worn with bruising to corners, a small soil on rear board o/w a very good copy. Contains the Ancient Roman property law of Aquila, and the law of gift giving between husband and wife.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 18mo. First 3 volumes (Books I-VII) of 14 only. Full red cloth. Volume I - Books I and II: xxxvi, 447 pp., [1] fold-out map. Volume II - Books III and IV: x, 465 pp., [1] fold-out map. Volume III - Books V-VII: x, 525 pp., [2] fold-out maps. All spines slightly tilted, worse to volume II. Sunning to spines, rubbing to extremities of all volumes. Volume I has some foxing to cloth, worse at spine head. Volume III lacks dust jacket. Dust jackets price clipped, sunned to spine, edge worn. Dust jacket of volume I chipped to head of front cover, torn to foot of front flap. Dust jacket of volume II stained to front cover, pen scuff to rear cover.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xviii, 314 pp. Covers and edges of text block slightly toned. Near fine.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Revealing Antiquity No. 10. Second printing. Soft cover. 313 pp. A few bumps to spine head, crease to upper corner of front cover. Else fine. Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route of direct access to the gods for material gains as well as for spiritual satisfaction. In this fascinating survey of magical beliefs and practices from the sixth century B.C.E. through late antiquity, Fritz Graf sheds new light on ancient religion.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 16mo. The Loeb Classical Library, No. 283. Later printing. Orig. red cloth, xxv, 543pp, (8)ads. A small damp stain on rear pastedown, spine ends and corners somewhat worn, o/w very good in a good d/w, jacket soiled and chipped with loss on spine.

Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Reprint. Full orange cloth. xvii, 92 pp. Slight sunning to spine, rugging to extremities light wear to spine foot. Ink stain to the foot of rear board. Some neat ink underlining and annotations in text. "This volume contains a Latin 'thriller.' It is the narrative of 'the most sensational cause celebre bequeathed to us by antiquity.'...Had the dignity of a University Press permitted, it might have been entitled More and Better Murders of Oppianicus, The Master Crook of Larinum." (from the Preface).

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full maroon cloth. xii, 348 pp. Dust jacket has some sunning and offset panels, else a fine copy. In this series of interrelated essays, treating Ovid, Virgil, St. Augustine, Heinrich von Morungen, Chretien de Troyes, Dante, Langland, and Chaucer, the author explores the ways in which medieval authors and their Roman predecessors used the image of the mirror both as instrument and metaphor.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 18mo. Loeb Classical Library No. 71. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and LCL monogram to front board. lv, 339 p.p., [8]. White scuffs to rear board from dust jacket, light bumping to spine ends, Dust jacket darkened and worn at spine, cropped to front flap, chipped at corners, bumped at edges, short tear to foot of front joint, worn at edge of rear flap. Galen (born 129 CE, died c. 216) was a Greek physician, writer, and philosopher who exercised a dominant influence on medical theory and practice in Europe from the Middle Ages until the mid-17th century.

Amstelaedami: Jacobi Wetstenii, 1746. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. VOL. II ONLY. Full vellum with decorative device in blind to upper front and rear board, original spine laid-down with new leather labels, 706pp. Illustrated with engraved folding map of Greece, plus 5 engraved headpieces. Half title, with title page printed in red and black, light foxing, with bookplate of Robert Gladstone. Boards a bit worn at corners, covers a bit faded but in fact a very good copy. An ancient Roman poet, Publius Verilius Maro (70BC-19BC) or Virgil, was active during the Augustan period. Book II contains selections from the Aeniead, one of his most famous and celebrated of his works.