Search Results: Reference from Ancient World Books

Collins and Hannay. Fair with no dust jacket. 1833. Hardcover. Corners are bumped. Edgewear to extremities. Front free endpaper has been torn out leaving small strip. Front hinge is weak and cracked but still attached. Foxing throughout with heavy foxing on a few pages. ; 276 pages .

Toronto: Yale Book Company. Very Good. 1950. Softcover. N. D. But mentioned in Classical Weekly from 1950. 22pp. ; 22 pages .

Anchor Books. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. 0385413912 . Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Minor creasing to spine. Pages tanned. ; 7.8 X 4.9 X 1.0 inches; 448 pages .

Prentice Hall. Good+. 2010. Seventh Edition. Softcover. 0205637442 . Creasing to some corners. Creasing to wraps. Shelfwear. Former owner's name on ffep. ; 384 pages .

Oxford University Press. Very Good-. 1999. Softcover. 0195097432 . Underlining in pen to a few pages. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). 1 corner creased. ; 544 pages; Written by four leading authorities on the classical world, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History introduces students to the history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety. The most comprehensive and balanced history of ancient Greece that covers the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, it integrates the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history with a traditional yet lively narrative of political, military, and diplomatic history. The authors show how the early Greeks borrowed from their neighbors but eventually developed a distinctive culture all their own, one that was marked by astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience. The book goes on to trace the complex and surprising… Read More

Viking Adult. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0670809705 . Pages slightly tanned. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; This book is about the study and understanding of the history of the Greeks and Romans, about the evidence available to historians and its severe limitations; about the practices of the historians in dealing with the evidence, and about alternative procedures that might be attempted. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 131 pages .

Viking Adult. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0670809705 . Pages tanned. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; This book is about the study and understanding of the history of the Greeks and Romans, about the evidence available to historians and its severe limitations; about the practices of the historians in dealing with the evidence, and about alternative procedures that might be attempted. ; 20 x 20 x 20 Inches; 131 pages .

Viking Adult. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0670809705 . Gift card taped down to front inner board. DJ is price-clipped. ; This book is about the study and understanding of the history of the Greeks and Romans, about the evidence available to historians and its severe limitations; about the practices of the historians in dealing with the evidence, and about alternative procedures that might be attempted. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 131 pages .

Oxford University Press. Very Good. 2007. Paperback. 0195312937 . Light shelfwear with faint creasing. ; Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and the lack of translations or scholarly aids often discourages readers from exploiting the large body of commentaries, scholia, lexica, and grammatical treatises that have been preserved on papyrus and via the manuscript tradition. Now, for the first time, there is an introduction to such scholarship that will enable students and scholars unfamiliar with this material to use it in their work. Ancient Greek Scholarship includes detailed discussion of the individual ancient authors on whose works scholia, commentaries, or single-author lexica exist, together with explanations of the probable sources of that scholarship and the ways it is now used, as well as… Read More

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 3476016080 . Former owner's name and blindstamp to ffep else book is fine. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; 876 pages .

Georg Olms Verlag. Very Good. 1967. Softcover. Spine sunned. A couple of small ink stains to front wrap and bottom of textblock. ; Text in Greek; introductory matter in Latin. Unchanged reprint of 1833 edition ; 195 pages .

The Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0801838630 . Minor shelfwear. ; Contributions by H. S. Versnel, Carlo Brillante, Robert Mondi, Joseph Falaky Nagy, William F. Hansen, Claude Calame, Richard Caldwell, and Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood. Four categories: first is historical methodologies; second is comparatives ones; third: Greimasian semiotics and Freudian psychoanalysis; fourth is iconography. ; 456 pages; "Well organized, edited and arranged, this text is of unquestioned value to all teachers of mythology, to the advanced student of the classics and to the research scholar, a welcome resource volume." --Classical World. .

Brill Academic Publishers. Fine with no dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 9004165401 . Unwrapped in Plastic. ; Handbook of Oriental Studies/handbuch Der Orientalistik; Vol. 95; 0.6 x 9.6 x 6.4 Inches; 304 pages; The present work supplements the original volume of The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (AMT) , both its glossary of technical terms and bibliography. It includes new entries of technical terms, additional definitions of, and/or citations for, the entries already found in AMT, and recent publications on various aspects of Arabic manuscript studies arranged by subject. Among additional features there are illustrations of various Arabic letterforms and an alphabetical index of all works cited in both AMT and its supplement. .

London: Methuen & Company. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. Small chip with loss at top of backstrip. Light bumping to corners. Dustjacket is a bit tatty with some tears and some loss to spine ends. DJ spine browned. ; 48pp, 140 line drawings, + 4 color plates by E. A. R. Ennion. ; Field Study Books; 48 pages .

Oxford: The Society of Antiquaries. Very Good. 1970. Hardcover. Minor shelfwear with light bumping to 1 corner. Includes plain brown paper dustjacket (tattered with tears). Some ink and pencil marginalia (mostly checkmarks). ; Viii, 56pp. ; 56 pages .

Philipp Von Zabern. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 3805309716 . Light shelfwear. Minor rubbing to boards. ; Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; 341 pages .

A. W. Sijthoff. Fair. 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Spine and part of wraps have been crudely reinforced with masking tape while inner hinges have been reinforced with cellotape. Some creasing to wraps. Wraps are browned. Internally VG. ; Greek text with Latin Commentary; 156 pages .

McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 007027293X . DJ has some creasing along edges with a couple of small tears. ; 11.3 X 8.7 X 1.3 inches; 272 pages .

Facts On File. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0871966522 . DJ is torn with some loss and chipping. DJ is somewhat tattered. Boards are a bit worn with scratches and edgeworn corners. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 240 pages .

McGraw-Hill. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 007021025X . Foxing to textblock and endpapers. DJ has minor creasing and sunning to spine. Obverse of DJ is foxed. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 256 pages .