London
by Besant, Walter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo; xv, 309 pages, decorated brown cloth, lacks rear free endpaper, untrimmed and unope ned
Focus on the City of London, presenting the city and its people from age to age ( post-Roman to George II). "Mr. Loftie ... first gave the world a reconstruction of the ground - the terrain - of London and its environs before ever a house was errected or an acre cleared. The first chapter of this book - that on Roman London and After - is chiefly due to a study of this map, and to realizing what that map means when appliled to the scanty records of Augusta. This map enabled me to recover the years which followed the retreat of the Romans. I cannot allow this chapter to be called a Theory. It is, I venture to claim for it, nothing less than a Recovery - Preface." Abundantly illustrated.
Focus on the City of London, presenting the city and its people from age to age ( post-Roman to George II). "Mr. Loftie ... first gave the world a reconstruction of the ground - the terrain - of London and its environs before ever a house was errected or an acre cleared. The first chapter of this book - that on Roman London and After - is chiefly due to a study of this map, and to realizing what that map means when appliled to the scanty records of Augusta. This map enabled me to recover the years which followed the retreat of the Romans. I cannot allow this chapter to be called a Theory. It is, I venture to claim for it, nothing less than a Recovery - Preface." Abundantly illustrated.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0008306
- Title
- London
- Author
- Besant, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- plague, Great Fire, Roman England, Romans in London,
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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