Macrobius: The Saturnalia. Number LXXIX of the Records of Civilization
by Macrobius. Translated and with Introduction and Notes By Percival Vaughan Davies
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- Very Good
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. First edition of this translation, made from the text of Eyssenhardt's second edition, 1893. Records of Civilization series, number LXXIX. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, no dustjacket. Very good condition with some faint speckling to the front cover and some dust speckling to the top edge of the text block, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, name of Yale Classics scholar Joseph Solodow at the top of the front free endpaper, no other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Resource Books, LLC (US)
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- Title
- Macrobius: The Saturnalia. Number LXXIX of the Records of Civilization
- Author
- Macrobius. Translated and with Introduction and Notes By Percival Vaughan Davies
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION
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- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History; Education, Schools, Colleges, Text & Lesson-Books;
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