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Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries
by Lanciani, Rodolfo
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Large 8vo. 240 x 170 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches]. xxix, [1], 329 pp. Illustrated with one hundred illustrations throughout the text. Bound in original red paper boards, white linen cloth spine, red cloth wrapper; tail of spine with some minor transfer of red from wrapper, wrapper a bit soiled, spine turned dark; frontispiece loose from text block.
Tenth printing, originally published in 1888. Lanciani's book was an immediate success and became one of Houghton and Mifflin's best selling travel books of the season. His text is a combination of new scholarship, describing the archeological discovers in Rome and a serious travel guide for many of the ancient monuments of the city. The illustrations include wood engravings, reproductions of art, heliotypes in black and white of city views, and maps. It is printed on lightly coated paper and is a very substantial book. With faults a good copy of a standard book.
Tenth printing, originally published in 1888. Lanciani's book was an immediate success and became one of Houghton and Mifflin's best selling travel books of the season. His text is a combination of new scholarship, describing the archeological discovers in Rome and a serious travel guide for many of the ancient monuments of the city. The illustrations include wood engravings, reproductions of art, heliotypes in black and white of city views, and maps. It is printed on lightly coated paper and is a very substantial book. With faults a good copy of a standard book.
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- 997
- Title
- Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries
- Author
- Lanciani, Rodolfo
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1894
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