Roman Antiquities: or, an Account of the Manner and Customs of the Romans by Adam, Alexander - 1797

London: T. Cadell & others, 1830. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Half-bound brown leather and marbled boards. 8vo, 570 pages. 11th edition. Front cover loose & tape repaired.

1833. Adam, Alexander. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES: An Account of the Customs of the Romans; Designed Chiefly to Illustrate the Latin Classics... Revised, Corrected, and Illustrated with Notes and Additions, by P. Wilson.... With Additional Notes.... by L.L. Da Poute. New York: Collins and Hannay, 1833. 508p., full leather, covers worn and almost detached, names and notes on endpapers, rear free endpaper missing, text foxed and soiled, fair. First published in Edinburgh in 1791, this work by Adam (1741-1809) called "A very useful and much esteemed work..." by William Lowndes in his "A Bibliographer's Manual" for this American edition (see "American Imprints", 1833, no p. 17238) Professor of Italian Literature at the University of the City of New York Lorenzo Da Poute (1749-1838) made addions to the work. Da Poute is remembered as librettist for 3 of Mozart's most popular operas.

London: Cadell & Davies, 1819. Hardcover. Good. . 8th edition, corrected. Bound in full leather, cover shows minor wear and rubbing, joints starting, loss at the spine ends. Name label of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages clean.

NY: E. Duyckinck. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1835. Hardcover. Engravings; 52/ pages; 6.75 x 3.25". 3/4 dk brn calf over marbled boards. .

GB: T. Cadell Etc, 1835. Clean tight text BUT covers worn and spine probably reglued. Just a good working copy.. Twelfth Edition. Hardback. Good/No DW.

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GB: Cadell & Davies et al, 1819. Name of owner at start of book. Full brown leather, plain leather spine with five raised bands and black leather label lettered in gold. Boards in marbled leather. Good clean tight text throughout BUT noticeable spotting at the beginning and end of the book. Pages are undulated possibly due to damp storage. Text edges dust darkened and a bit marked. Covers a bit rubbed and top and base of spine frayed.. Eighth Edition. Hardback. G++/No DW.

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T. Cadell. Used - Very Good. 1830. 11th ed., published 1830. Three quarter calf over marbled boards; edges dyed red. 570 pp. Leather worn, esp. along spine, but sound a sound working copy. (Subject: Ancient, Rome.)