The Library of Alexandria Rediscovering the Cradle of Western Culture by Roy MacLeod ISBN 13: 9781860644283

I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket is lightly worn along the top edge. Spine in slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Inside is clear and unmarked.

I. B. Tauris. A beautiful, clean, crisp hardcover in near fine condition; very faint foxing to top edge of textblock. DJ in fine condition and in protective mylar cover. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 2000.

USA: Bloomsbury Academic, 1999. Bloomsbury Academic 1999 Reprint Fine/Very Good++ DJ Printed in 2001. Published in 2000. Pos penned inside cover with previous owner's stamp/seal. Bright pages. Minimal shelfwear to bright glossy dust jacket.. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good++ DJ.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York : I.B. Tauris, 2001. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 196 pages : map ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index. Contents; Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- pt. 1. Alexandria in history and myth. Ch. 1. Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D.T. Potts ; Ch. 2. Alexandria : the umbilicus of the ancient world / Wendy Brazil ; Ch. 3. Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses : the ancient library of Alexandria / Robert Barnes ; Ch. 4. Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection / R.G. Tanner -- pt. 2. Scholarship in the Alexandrian manner. Ch. 5. Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories / John Vallance ; Ch. 6. The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria : some… Read More

I. B. Tauris, 2000-03-16. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!