Cornelius Nepos: Twenty Lives (Macmillan's Latin Series)
by NEPOS, Cornelius
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. Stated new edition, revised. A series of brief biographical sketches, written in Latin, of notable Greeks and Romans by Cornelius Nepos (c. 110 BC c. 25 BC), a biographer from northern Italy. Intended for the English-speaking student in Latin, this work includes numerous maps and black & white illustrations. Edited by John Edmund Barss, who has provided extensive endnotes, Latin exercises and vocabulary, as well as footnotes (all in English). An entry in publisher's Macmillan's Latin Series, edited by John Copeland Kirtland, Jr. --- In ribbed green cloth backed in red cloth, with cover titling in black; spine titling in gilt. --- An about-Good copy, with somewhat shaken binding, pencilings to endpapers and within the text, else a sound, fully readable copy.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xiv, 316, [4, ads] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88283
- Title
- Cornelius Nepos: Twenty Lives (Macmillan's Latin Series)
- Author
- NEPOS, Cornelius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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