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THE STAR GUIDE-BOOK TO ROME

By: N/A

Price: $47.00

Publisher: Rome, Societ Laziale: 1890

Seller ID: 21572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Minor rubbing. Large discolored spot to rear cover. Some pencilling, else VG in gilt-decorated red cloth. With the color armorial bookplate of Sir David Stewart Banchory Devenich. Good+/VG-; Xxxii, 529pp, + adverts. ; 529 pages
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GUIDA D'ITALIA DEL TOURING CLUB ITALIANO: SICILIA.

By: N/A

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Touring Club Italiano: 1968

Seller ID: 33174

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Very faint shelfwear. Pages tanned. Includes plastic cover (which has some tears). ; Guida D'Italia Del T. C. I. 22; 791 pages
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THE ROUGH GUIDE TO SICILY

By: Andrews, Robert & Jules Brown

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Rough Guides: 1993

Seller ID: 33169

ISBN: 1858280370

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Pages tanned. Creasing to spine. ; 7.6 X 5.0 X 1.0 inches; 336 pages
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THE ENGLISH ROAD TO ROME

By: Barefoot, Brian

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Images: 1993

Seller ID: 22332

ISBN: 1897817088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

DJ in mylar. ; 255pp. The stories of some of the British men and women who visited Rome: the 5th century heretic Pelagius; the only English Pope - Adrian IV, Inigo Jones, Robert Adam, Joshua Reynolds, John Keats and Edward Lear amongst others. ; 255 pages
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THE MIDDLE EAST Crossroads of History

By: Ben-Horin, Eliahu

Price: $9.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: 1943

Seller ID: 15881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket

Foxing to textblock. Former owner's name stamped to inner cover (H. Schipper). Foxing to DJ. DJ spine sunned. Chipping and tears to DJ. ; Republished by Readers Union Group of book Clubs. ; 248 pages
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ODYSSEY Mirror of the Mediterranean.

By: Beny, Roloff & (Text by Anthony Thwaite)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Ltd.: 1981

Seller ID: 7554

ISBN: 0771012047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Light edgewear to corners of DJ. ; With 133 colour plates, 162 duotone plates, 42 linecuts, and 7 maps. ; 371 pages; A photographic odyssey through all the regions of the Mediterranean, with historical text and selections
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RMISCHES ERINNERUNGSBUCH Mit 40 Farbbildern Von Erich Lessing Und 57 Stichen Von G. B. Piranesi

By: Bergengruen, Werner

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Freiburg im Briesgau, Herder: 1966

Seller ID: 20196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ has a few tears. Book has minor shelfwear. Comes with slipcase. ; 182pp, handsomely illustrated.; 4to - over 9" - 12" tall; 182 pages
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NICHOLAS BIDDLE IN GREECE The Journals and Letters of 1806

By: Biddle, Nicholas; R. A. McNeal (Ed. )

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 20519

ISBN: 0271009144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear else fine. ; 243pp.; 243 pages
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ARISTEAS OF PROCONNESUS

By: Bolton, J. D. P.

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Oxford At the Clarendon Press: 1962

Seller ID: 32267

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has a few small tears and chipping. DJ is browned. DJ is price-clipped. ; 258 pages
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GREECE

By: Boulanger, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Paris, Hachette: 1964

Seller ID: 32916

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Scholar's booklabel to endpaper (Jenifer Neils). ; 921 pp, maps, silk ribbon markers. Hachette World Guide series. ; Hachette World Guides; 921 pages
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FAR ARABIA Explorers of the Myth

By: Brent, Peter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Readers Union: 1978

Seller ID: 15879

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Foxing to textblock. Pencil underlining to some pages. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. Rubbing to DJ. DJ spine sunned. ; Republished by Readers Union Group of book Clubs. ; 239 pages
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FROM CAIRO TO THE CATARACT

By: Carson, Blanche Mabury

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & Company: 1909

Seller ID: 22648

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Decorative cloth binding is rubbed and worn at extremities, inner hinges strained and cracked, contents are otherwise VG, sound and tight. ; 330pp + 47pls. ; 330 pages
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THE MASQUE OF CAPRI

By: Cerio, Edwin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Nelson: 1957

Seller ID: 20987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Gift inscription in pen on front pastedown, else unmarked. Book has minor shelfwear with tanning to endpapers. Tattered dustjacket with tears and chipping. DJ is price-clipped. ; 132pp, illustrated. A history of the island from its mythic beginnings to the 1950s. ; 132 pages
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ROME : LE MOUVEMENT ET LANCRAGE. Morale Et Philosophie Du Voyage Au Dbut Du Principat

By: Chambert, Rgine

Price: $130.00

Publisher: ditions Latomus: 2005

Seller ID: 15124

ISBN: 2870312296

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Bump to front corner with light creasing to first few pages. Faint creasing to a couple of corners. Very faint damp-staining to top edge of first 10 pages. Light creasing to spine. ; Collection Latomus Volume 288; 411 pages
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PIETER VAN DEN BROECKE IN AZI [2 VOLS.] Met Portret, Facsimile, 5 Gravures, 2 Tekeningen En 5 Karten. I & II

By: Coolhaas, Prof. Dr. W. Ph.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff: 1962

Seller ID: 15877

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

2 volume set. Minor shelfwear. V2 is a slightly different shade of blue. ; V1: (1962) XI, [3], 219, V2: (1963) XI, 434 pp; 2 Volume Set COMPLETE; Vol. 2020-01-02; 653 pages
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AVE ROMA IMMORTALIS [2 VOLUME SET] Studies from the Chronicles of Rome. in Two Volumes Vol. I & Vol. II

By: Crawford, Francis Marion

Price: $33.00

Publisher: NY, MacMillan Company: 1899

Seller ID: 21394

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Bindings a bit foxed with faint foxing to a few pages. Faint stains on backstrip of Volume I, else Very Good, contents bright and tight. ; 2 volumes. 332pp; 344pp, nicely illustrated, folding map. ; 2 Volume Set COMPLETE; 676 pages
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NORTH AFRICA The Roman Coast

By: Davies, Ethel

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides: 2009

Seller ID: 33167

ISBN: 1841622877

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Very faint shelfwear. ; If you wonder: What have the Romans ever done for us, you should perhaps visit Volubilis, the best-preserved Roman site in present-day Morocco, or the spectacular amphitheatre at El Jem, built by the wealthy proconsul Gordion who later committed suicide within his own great monument. North Africa: The Roman Coast guides travellers around the Roman heritage sites of modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, and brings to life the stories behind the archaeological remains. It additionally gives details of nearby attractions of the present day, including beaches, mu...
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TIMBUKTU The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold

By: De Villiers, Marq & Sheila Hirtle

Price: $15.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 2007

Seller ID: 26850

ISBN: 0771026463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

The first book for general readers about the storied past of one of the worlds most fabled cities. Timbuktu the name still evokes an exotic, faraway place, even though the citys glory days are long gone. Unspooling its history and legends, resolving myth with reality, Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have captured the splendour and decay of one of humankinds treasures. Founded in the early 1100s by Tuareg nomads who called their camp Tin Buktu, it became, within two centuries, a wealthy metropolis and a nexus of the trans-Saharan trade. Salt from the deep Sahara, gold from Ghana, and money...
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ROME OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY The Pagan City

By: Dennie, John

Price: $28.00

Publisher: NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1904

Seller ID: 20204

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Former owner's name on ffep in ink. Binding rubbed at extremities, light spotting to front board. Small ding to foreege of fron board. Gilt-decorated top cover still bright. ; 5th ed. Xii, 392pp, 58pls, 5 maps and plans. ; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall; 392 pages
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ARTHUR PULLINGER: An Early Traveler in Syria and Asia Minor

By: Drew-Bear, Thomas; Christian Naour & Ronald S. Stroud

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society: 1985

Seller ID: 20570

ISBN: 087169753X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Title page slightly creased, else near Fine. ; 80pp, some illustrations. ; Transactions of the American Philological Association Vol. 75, Part 3, 1985; 80 pages
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ROME

By: Ellaby, C. G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Company: 1904

Seller ID: 20501

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Corners lightly bumped, slight chip at top backstrip, else a nice copy, very light pencil underlining. The binding surprisingly bright. ; 320pp + 27 illustrations and maps, some folding. ; Little Guides; 16mo - over 5" - 6" tall; 320 pages
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VENISE

By: Fraigneau, Andr

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Paris, Del Duca: N.D.

Seller ID: 21493

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket

Corners bumped and to base of spine with some tears to base of spine; some discoloration of boards. Else Very Good in a chipped and torn dustjacket; unmarked except for a gift inscription on the front pastedown. ; N. D. (early 1950's). 70pp of photographs, some in color. ; Couleurs Du Monde; B&W Photographs; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; 70 pages
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I DISCOVER GREECE Wherein an Incurable Nomad Sets Forth What Befell Him and an Artist Friend During a Labyrinthine Summer Journey through Modern Hellas

By: Franck, Harry A.

Price: $27.00

Publisher: The Century Co.: 1929

Seller ID: 32760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book. Old price to ffep. Chipping and small tears to DJ. DJ spine browned. ; 359 pages
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ARCTIC ADVENTURE My Life in the Frozen North. Illustrated with Photographs and Maps

By: Freuchen, Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart: 1935

Seller ID: 30048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Lower corners have faint dampstaining. Sunning to spine and edges of boards. Inner hinges cracked. Tear to head of spine cloth (4 cm). Fraying to spine ends. Former owner's name in ink to ffep. Corners edgeworn. Fair to Good. ; 467 pages
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PROVENCE Prsentation De Jean Giono. Notices Gographiques Historiques Et Archologiques De Georges Monmarch

By: Giono, Jean & Georges Monmarch

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Hachette: 1954

Seller ID: 21036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Gift inscription on front pastedown, else unmarked. DJ has chipping with a couple of tears. DJ has some edgewear. ; 126pp, mostly photographs by G. Maurois. ; Les Ablums Des Guides Bleus; 126 pages
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IN THE STEPS OF MOSES THE CONQUEROR

By: Golding, Louis

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Rich & Cowan, Ltd.: 1938

Seller ID: 6819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Browning to prelims. Top of spine is frayed. Tear along side of backstrip (3"). Rubbing to boards. ; An account of a journey in Moses steps from Mount Sinai to the Plain of Moab near Jericho; there are references to T. E. Lawrence ; 426 pages
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KNOPF GUIDE: ROME

By: Guides, Knopf & Various

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf: 1994

Seller ID: 33168

ISBN: 0679750673

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. ; Knopf Guides; 8.8 X 4.3 X 1.1 inches; 560 pages
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THE COACHING LIFE

By: Hanson, Harry

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 20061

ISBN: 0719009308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light bump to 1 corner. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Else Fine. ; 208pp, illustrated.; 208 pages
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IN SEARCH OF A POLAR CONTINENT 1905-1907 With Illustrations and a Map

By: Harrison, Alfred H.

Price: $105.00

Publisher: Musson Book Company / Edward Arnold: 1908

Seller ID: 30047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Some pages carelessly opened with tears. Rear map index is torn but map portion intact. Fair to Good. Fraying to spine ends. Separation starting to gutters of a few pages. ; 292 pages
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THE CRUISE OF THE EIGHT HUNDRED TO AND THROUGH PALESTINE Glimpses of Bible Lands

By: Hartshorn, W. N. & Louis Klopsch

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Christian Herald Press: 1905

Seller ID: 32202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Endpapers tanned. Minor shelfwear and light foxing. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 386 pages
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ROADS TO ROME

By: Heseltine, John & Foreword by Colin Ford

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum: 2005

Seller ID: 21602

ISBN: 0892368276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Light bumping to corners. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 160pp, nicely illustrated. Visual record of journeys Heseltine made along five of the ancient Roman Roads. ; Oblong 4to; 60 pages
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SIX MONTHS IN ITALY

By: Hillard, George Stillman

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Boston, James R. Osgood and Company: 1877

Seller ID: 21569

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Binding a bit edgeworn at extremities, ink inscription on ffep, front inner hinge a bit crudely repaired, else VG, ; 15th ed. Xii, 563pp. ; 563 pages
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THOMAS HOPE (1769-1831) : PICTURES FROM 18TH CENTURY GREECE

By: Hope, Thomas

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Athens, Benaki Museum / the British Council: 1985

Seller ID: 21900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Very faint stain to lower edges of boards. Else book is fine. DJ has some scuffing. ; 231pp, with 103 pls reproducing Hopes's drawings. ; Oblong Folio; 231 pages
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MYKENES 1954 To Katamesemero

By: Kakoure, Athena & Robert A McCabe

Price: $37.00

Publisher: Ekdoseis Patake: 2014

Seller ID: 32768

ISBN: 9601659935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Gift inscription to Jenifer Neils in ink on half-title. Else Very minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; 285 pages
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THE APPIAN WAY Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

By: Kaster, Robert A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: 2012

Seller ID: 26717

ISBN: 0226425711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia the Queen of Roads, and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroyed by time, neglect, and the incursions of modernity; to travel the Appian Way today is to be a seeker, and to walk in the footsteps of ghosts. Our guide to those ghostsand the layers of history they representis Robert A. Kaster. In The Appian Way, he brings a lifetime of studying Roman literature and history to his adventures along the ancient highw...
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THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO [The Venetian]

By: Komroff, Manuel (Ed. ) ; Illustrations by Witold Gordon

Price: $38.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright: 1930

Seller ID: 8164

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Gift note to fep. Spine is lightly discolored. ; Limited edition of 1000 copies, this copy numbered 454. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine. Marco Polo As a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccol and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time. The three of them embarked on an epic journey to Asia, returning after 2...
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EASTER IN SICILY

By: Kubly, Herbert

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1956

Seller ID: 33161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

A few tears and chipping to DJ. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 296 pages
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THE RUINS AND EXCAVATIONS OF ANCIENT ROME

By: Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo & (Foreword by Richard Brilliant).

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Bell Publishing Company: 1979

Seller ID: 32329

ISBN: 0517289458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Ffep is corner clipped (remove trace of ownership? ). Light foxing to top of textblock. DJ has some tears and chipping. ; 631 pages
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THE GEMS OF THE EAST Sixteen Thousand Miles of Research Travel Among Wild and Tame Tribes of Enchanting Islands

By: Landor, A. Henry Savage

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1904

Seller ID: 30044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Inner hinges cracked. A few tears to titlepage. Separation at page 158. Minor colour loss to top edge of front board. Chipping to spine ends. Lower corners bumped. Else Good. ; 566 pages
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BYRON'S GREECE

By: Longford, Elizabeth

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Harpercollins: 1976

Seller ID: 33157

ISBN: 0060126736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Light foxing to boards. Minor edgewear to DJ. DJ spine is sunned. ; Photographs; 9.9 X 8.1 X 1.1 inches; 183 pages
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EXPLORING ROMAN BRITAIN

By: McCloy, Andrew & Andrew Midgley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, New Holland Publishers: 2006

Seller ID: 21363

ISBN: 1845372417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to book and DJ. DJ has small chip to base of spine. DJ in mylar. ; 160pp, nicely illustrated.; 4to - over 9" - 12" tall; 160 pages
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AMERICA EMERGENT An Exhibition of Maps and Atlases in Honor of Alexander O. Vietor

By: McCorkle, Barbara B. with Assistance Of George A. Miles & Christa Sammons

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library: 1985

Seller ID: 28977

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 103 pages
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ANCIENT ANGKOR

By: Michael Freeman; Claude Jacques

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd: 2010

Seller ID: 33186

ISBN: 0500974853

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Creasing to book through lower section. ; Books Guides; 9.9 X 7.2 X 0.7 inches; 240 pages
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DIARY OF A TRIP TO ROME

By: Middleton, George W.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Salt Lake City, Deseret News: 1908

Seller ID: 21570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Inscribed by the author on the ffep. Rubbing to extremities. Contents slightly shaken; 123pp, illustrated. ; 123 pages; Signed by Author
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ANCIENT ROME IN 1888

By: Middleton, J. Henry

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, A & C Black: 1888

Seller ID: 21298

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Gilt-decorated cloth is still bright. Backstrip frayed about 2 inches along rear joint, slight rubbing at extremities, a few small specks on the covers, inner hinges strained but holding. Contents bright and clean, the handsomely printed maps are crisp and untorn. A nice book. Endpapers browned. Light foxing to ffep. ; Xxvi, 522pp, 57 illustrations, and three folding color maps. ; 522 pages
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THE LAND OF ITALY

By: More, Jasper

Price: $5.00

Publisher: B. T. Batsford: 1949

Seller ID: 30497

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

264 pages
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TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE LEVANT I/II [2 Volumes in 1 Book]

By: Newton, Charly Thomas

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag AG: 1989

Seller ID: 18741

ISBN: 3487091496

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Small Faint dampstain to base of spine. Else book is fine. ; Unchanged Reprint of a title published in 2 volumes in 1865 by Day & Son, London; 2 Volumes in 1; Vol. 2020-01-02; 661 pages
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