Search Results: Titles starting with B from Ancient World Books

B. G. Teubner. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 3322003396 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Else fine. ; Text in Ancient Greek; Prologue in Latin. Cxvi, 204 pp; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 204 pages .

Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. Very Good-. 1875. Hardcover. Former classics scholar's name on ffep (Alan E. Samuel). Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Foxing to ffeps. Pages are browned. Corners are worn. Light chipping to a few pages. Browning to front cover. ; Greek writer of fables who lived probably in the second century AD. Greek text with latin apparatus. ; 100 pages .

MacMillan and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1883. Hardcover. Inner hinges cracked. Front hinge reinforced with tape. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Chipping and some loss to head of spine. Back strip torn along top of joints (4 cm) but mostly intact. 1 corner edgeworn. Former owner's name to ffep in ink. General shelfwear. Internally VG. ; Ciii, 202 pp ; Scriptorum Fabularum Graeci Volume First Containing the Mythiambics of Babrius; 202 pages .

Harvard University Press & William Heinemann. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0674994809 . Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. A couple of pages not corner cut (with slight overhang). DJ is price-clipped. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a hellenised Roman living in Asia Minor during the late 1st century of our era. The fables are all in one metre and in very good style, humorous and pointed. Some are original. Phaedrus, born in Macedonia, flourished in the early half of the 1st century of our era. Apparently a slave set free by the emperor Augustus, he lived in Italy and began to write Aesopian fables. When he offended Sejanus, a powerful official of the emperor Tiberius, he was punished but not silenced. The fables, in five books, are in lively terse and simple Latin verse not lacking in… Read More

Thames & Hudson. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0500020957 . Minor shelfwear to book. Some foxing to textblock. DJ has some chipping to spine ends and 1 small closed tear now in mylar. ; Ancient Peoples and Places; 216 pages .

The Trustees of the British Museum. Very Good. 1971. Third Edition. Softcover. 0714110779 . Very minor shelfwear. ; 47 pages; Presents the reader with an account of a Flood story which has thrilled generation upon generation of Smerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, as well as their spiritual disciples and heirs, the peoples of Western Asia east, north, and west of the country that is now Iraq. .

Oxford Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Former owner's bookplate to ffep. Pages lightly tanned. Spine lightly sunned. Very minor shelfwear. ; With 75 plates. ; 358 pages .

Yale University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1920. Hardcover. SEx-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and traces of removed pocket. Edgewear to corners and spine ends. Corners are bumped. Titlepage has institution name perforated. Mild browning to prelims. ; Extensive transcribed and photographed cuneiform inscriptions from the time of the Ur Dynasty, of which the reigns of Dungi, Bur-Sin, Gimil-Sin and Ibi-Sin are represented. A number belong to the time of the First Dynasty of Babylon. ; Vol. 3; 50 pages .

Otto Schulze. Good. 1878. Softcover. Wraps are heavily chipped with small pieces of back wrap missing. Browning to pages. Book is still intact. Tears to front wrap along bottom half of hinge. Some pages uncut. Fair to good condition. ; 56 pages .

Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. Former owner's name on ffep. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Babylonian-Assyrian Lexicon into German. ; 343 pages .

Cambridge At the University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1885. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Top edges gilt. Chipping and fraying to spine ends. A few small tears to joints of spine cover. Upper corners are lightly edgeworn. Foxing to endpapers. ; Clv, 273 pp. ; 275 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good+. 2004. Softcover. 0521599776 . Faint creasing to spine. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; Cambridge Greek And Latin Classics; 4.85 X 0.66 X 7.32 inches; 292 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. Former owner's initials in pencil to ffep. Heavy Foxing to ffeps. Pencil notes in margins. Pencil and red pencil underlining on a few pages in greek text. ; Greek text with facing English translation. Extensive English Introduction and Commentary. ; 524 pages .

Francis Cairns Publications. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 0905205529 . Very minor shelfwear to DJ. 1 corner lightly bumped. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; ARCA 49; 380 pages; Among the works of the fifth-century BC lyric poet Bacchylides are epinician odes celebrating victors in the cycle of Greek Games, which were occasions of major political, cultural and religious significance in the Greek world. Fourteen of Bacchylides' epinician odes survive wholly or in part. The five included in this volume are those that have come down to us in fullest form; they are of great importance for the study of epinician poetry in particular and of early fifth-century lyric in general. In his Introductory Essays and Commentary D. L. Cairns explicates the social, ethical, cultural, and artistic features of Bacchylidean epinician within the contexts in which it is so deeply embedded. The volume will be of interest to advanced students and scholars with a good knowledge… Read More

Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers slightly browned. 1 corner bumped. Light spotting to rear board. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Faint crease to front board. ; Greek text with facing English translation. Extensive English Introduction and Commentary. ; 524 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1970. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). Pages tanned. Many pencil notes to text. Minor staining to rear board. ; Text in Ancient Greek; Preface in Latin. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 172 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1934. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Scholar's name stamped to ffep (R. Ten Kate). Very light foxing to endpapers. Rubbing to spine ends. ; Text in Ancient Greek; Preface in Latin. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 208 pages .

Yale University Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. Minor bumping along upper edges of boards. DJ has tears and browning. DJ somewhat tattered. ; 123 pages .

Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. Hardcover. 0199215502 . Very minor shelfwear to DJ. 1 corner lightly bumped. Faint indent to textblock. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 8.6 X 1.3 X 5.7 inches; 400 pages .

B. G. Teubner. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1970. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Pages tanned. Small tear and dent to spine (1/2 cm). ; Text in Ancient Greek; Preface in Latin. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 172 pages .