New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Bittel (1907-91) was the world's leading authority on Hittite archaeology. 174 p. with 30 plates. Octavo. Original light brown cloth binding, with burgundy stamping. Some very..... More
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. An authoritative guide to the burgeoning Etruscan scholarship. More than 300 photographs and maps. Tall octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy..... More
London: Duckworth, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this new study, Professor Burnett has re-examined the work of three of the most important of the early Greek poets, translating all of the extended fragments. Instead of..... More
Oxford: Printed by S. Collingwood for John Murray, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Though his major works were in the field of English church history, Cardwell (1787-1861) published an edition of the Ethics of Aristotle (1828)..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Biblical scholar Cuthbert Turner's copy, with his signature and occasional underlining and marginalia. Critical edition of this 6th century work, one of the earliest essays in scientific..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. The oldest complete play in the world, The Triumph of Horus was engraved on the walls of the Temple of Edfu in Upper..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Hardcover. "Peter Fraser's account of Alexandrian life in the Ptolemaic period was enthusiastically welcomed by scholars when it first appeared in 1972 and it has remained unsurpassed in the scope..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the first general study of the fortunes of Catullus in the Renaissance. After a brief introduction tracing the transmission of the poet from antiquity to..... More
London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "In Akhenaten's Sed-festival at Karnak, Jocelyn Gohary makes a study of Akhenaten's celebration of the heb-sed or Sed-festival, an ancient Egyptian religious festival that..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is a book which should be in the hands of every one who is interested in the study of later Greek. The object of the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. "...brings together all of the evidence for statue dedications on the Acropolis in the sixth and fifth centuries BC, including inscribed statues bases that preserve information about..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 312 p. Translated by Audrey Hicks. 188 illustrations, including 20 tipped-in color plates, by Max Hirmer. First American edition. An authoritative study of the sculptural..... More
Chicago: Ares Publishers, Inc., 1985. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1948 first edition. An engaging treatment of Trajan's campaigns, with a translation of Arrian's Parthika by James G. DeVoto. Octavo: xv, 262 p. Original blue cloth..... More
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. A thoroughly revised and expanded version of the author's Dissertation on the Topography of the Plain of Troy (1822). Scottish journalist and geologist Charles Maclaren (1782-1866)..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 352 p. 130 illustrations. A new interpretation for the use of figural decoration in Greek temples of the archaic period, through a study of the archaic metopes..... More
Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2005. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original glossy paper wrappers. A fine copy. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. With a lengthy handwritten note from Gilbert Murray to Charles Raun Kennedy, a Birmingham barrister and classist, tipped in on the front pastedown. Kennedy's signature and date..... More
London and New York: Routledge, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by John Maxwell O'Brien on the title page. In the last seven years of his life, Alexander the Great grew increasingly unpredictable, sporadically violent, megalomaniacal..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Scholarly treatise on Boeotia, a district of ancient Greece with a distinctive military, artistic, and political history. Octavo: vi, [1], 92 p. with a two-panel map. Original..... More
New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes 38 articles by members of the American Oriental Society, as well as a piece ("In Search of Sumer: A Personal Account of the Early..... More
Oxford: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo: vii, 351, [3] p. Full vellum binding by White of London, with red calf spine labels, decorative gilt stamping, and marbled endpapers and edges. Previous owner’s..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 16 pp. illustrations. Speculating on the veiled history of the destruction of the Hittite and Mycenaean civilizations by a mysterious sea-faring race, Velikovsky..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Later printing. "The History of Theophylact Simocatta, the last major historian of classical antiquity, is our most important source for the reign of the emperor Maurice (A.D. 582-602) ....... More
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. A selection of articles, published and unpublished, by the distinguished German-English philologist, professor of Hellenistic Greek, and biblical scholar. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles..... More