ROMAN LONDON
by Ralph Merrifield
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. Jacket blurb mounted o
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Cassell and Company, London - first edition 1969 Hardcover, 9¼" x 6¾", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. Jacket blurb mounted on half-title page. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket Purple cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, 63 b&w illustrations, and index. This portrait of Roman London (Londinium), built up after years of patient research by professional and amateur archaeologists, is carefully related to twentieth-century London. On foot or map, the reader can follow the Roman city's plans, or strike out beyond the walls up the great military highways built during nearly four hundred years of the Pax Romana. This splendid book, with its carefully selected illustrations, details treasures and describes where and how Roman London may be seen today.
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Details
- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 31735
- Title
- ROMAN LONDON
- Author
- Ralph Merrifield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 9¼" x 6¾", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. Jacket blurb mounted o
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company, London - first edition
- Date Published
- 1969
- Pages
- 212 pages
- Keywords
- xxx archaeologists archaeology Roman London city walls forts military pottery street plans
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About the Seller
Pegasus Book Orphanage
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McCrae, Victoria
About Pegasus Book Orphanage
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