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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First edition. Orange portfolio wrappers, 12 x 8.5 inches, text on 6 folded 12 x 17 inch sheets folded to 24 pages and laid in loose, prospectus laid in. Edition of 200 copies. A couple faint marks to wrappers, else very good.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a small cluster of huts along the Tiber to the greatest empire the ancient world had ever seen, the story of Rome is one of ambition, violence, innovation, and endurance. This book traces the rise of the Roman Republic, its transformation into an imperial powerhouse, and the cultural forces that bound together a realm stretching from the misty shores of Britain to the sands of Egypt.Across its pages, readers will encounter the raw drama of political life in the Forum, where senators and emperors vied for control, and where laws like the Twelve Tables laid the foundations for Western legal thought. They will march with legions across Gaul and Judea, follow governors and tax collectors into the provinces, and witness the lives of ordinary citizens who navigated the privileges and burdens of Roman rule.But Rome was more than armies and laws-it was a civilization of astonishing creativity. Mosaics and frescoes decorated villas, triumphal arches proclaimed victories, poets like Virgil and Ovid reshaped cultural identity, and monuments such as the Colosseum staged spectacles of glory and brutality. The book also brings to life Rome's extraordinary advances in medicine, engineering, and science-its aqueducts, concrete, and timekeeping-before following the empire into its crises: provincial revolts, civil wars, the reforms of Diocletian and Constantine, and the long shadow of the empire's division and fall.Bringing together politics, law, culture, and legacy, this is not just the story of emperors and generals, but of Rome's people-citizens, slaves, provincials, and outsiders whose voices still echo in the ruins and the texts they left behind. Sweeping in scope yet rich in detail, Rome: Conquest, Power, and Legacy explores how the empire that once ruled the known world continues to shape our own.…

Hardback, 10+850 pp., 8° (18 x 26 cm), cover slightly worn, bookshop label on back cover, edges very slightly dusty, blind stamp on half-title page, condition: very good Book Language/s: English.

Series: Printed Papers, No. XLV. 4to. [ii], 25 pp. Tables. Original yellow wrappers; rear cover lacking. PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on top cover. Ex library ms. notations and rubber stamp on top cover. Very good.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Quarto. Loose mimeographed sheets stapled along the spine; the first sheet duplicated with the outer sheet with a colored sun. Else fine with two very tiny nicks along the spine. Limited to 250 copies. Includes a statement about Geer from D.r. Wagner and Barbara O'Connelly, owners of The Runcible Spoon Press.…

XIV, 447 S. Leinen. Schnitt gering fleckig. Sehr gutes Exemplar. - Cloth. Minor spots on edge. Very good copy. "The outstanding merit of the book . is the presentation . of the five fundamental theorems on finite groups and the fundamental results on isomorphism of finite groups." (L. W. Griffiths). - Scarce first edition. Erstausgabe. Selten. …

4to, pp. [4], 1-9, [1] (i.e. 7 leaves); errata slip tipped in between the first and second leaves; original printed yellow wrappers; nibbling along the bottom edge; all else very good. There are several small ink corrections in a contemporary hand (authorial?). Hagley Museum & Library and Buffalo Historical Museum are the only copies located in OCLC where 13 titles are listed as being printed at the Battalion Press 1872-76, but by 1882 at least 50 had been published.…