Fords Howard and Hulbert New York/Waverley Book Co London 1912 Vg (no dj, clean red cloth with gilt titles and small Olympic torch motif on spine, very lightly faded top of spine, impressed torch pattern on front board, gilt tops to pages, one small stain outside page edges just encroaching on fore-edge of a few pages, faint browning endpapers, else a good sound copy) octavo 386pp. Colour frontispiece and 2 title pages. Governments and laws; The fine arts - architecture, sculpture, painting; Ancient scientific knowledge - astronomy, geography etc.; Material life of the ancients - mechanical and useful arts; The military art - weapons, engines, discipline; Cicero; Cleopatra; Pagan society. 10 b/w plates.

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Bookseller: lobstabooks (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 33194
Title: BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOL 3 ANCIENT ACHIEVEMENTS
Author: John Lord:
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Fords Howard and Hulbert New York/Waverley Book Co London 1912
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