GALLUS OR ROMAN SCENES OF THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS With Notes and Excursuses Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans
by Becker, W. A. ; Rev. Frederick Metcalfe (Trans. )
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Longmans Green and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1866. Third Edition. Hardcover. Half-leather boards; boards and inner hinges are cracked. Joints crudely repaired with cellotape. Some wear and rubbing to boards. Spine label torn. Chipping and tears to spine ends. Marbled endpapers. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Xxi, 535 pp ; 535 pages .
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- Ancient World Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27814
- Title
- GALLUS OR ROMAN SCENES OF THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS With Notes and Excursuses Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans
- Author
- Becker, W. A. ; Rev. Frederick Metcalfe (Trans. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans Green and Co.
- Date Published
- 1866
- Keywords
- Classical Greek & Roman, Roman History
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- Cracked
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- Spine Label
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- Chipping
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