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Browse Books on Ancient History Title Title Author Price (ascending) Price (descending) Date Added (descending)    731 Ancient History Books (showing 1 to 30) Search within Books on Ancient History Keyword/s:  Browse Australian Bookshops specialising in Ancient History Books   A Celtic Reader: Selections from Celtic Legend, Scholarship and Story Matthews, John (ed) ISBN: 0850309352 Northamptonshire, UK; Aquarian Press, 1991      317pp hardcover in very good condition, pages tanned, dustwrapper worn on edges and chipped Price: $16.00 (AUD) Book Number: 60929  Bookseller: Fine Print Books Postage Rates     A Companion to Roman Britain Clayton, Peter A. ISBN: 0714820318 Phaidon Press Oxford, United Kingdom 1980  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Hard Cover A few tape impressions to endpapers. 208 pages with 350 b/w illustrations. Covers all the major aspects of Roman Britain from its Conquest in AD 43 to its final abandonment in the fifth century.   Very Good Price: $22.00 (AUD) Book Number: 007707  Bookseller: Terra Australis Books Postage Rates     A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Stace, W. T. ISBN: NOISBN Macmillan London 1934  12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hard Cover Scarce in a d/j, albeit one that is price clipped, faded, creased and torn at back. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very solid book, with infrequent underlining made lightly in pencil being the only significant flaw. Some light foxing on prelims but very little age tan. More detailed description can be obtained on request and is normally supplied within 24 hours, as are scanned digital images or any other available information.  Good - Very Good Price: $64.87 (AUD) Book Number: 005819  Bookseller: BookSplendour Postage Rates     A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt Margaret Bunson Oxford University Press U. S. A. 1991  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Soft Cover weight 550g  Very Good Price: $12.00 (AUD) Book Number: 014222  Bookseller: Book Lore Postage Rates     A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology Michael Stapleton Hamlyn Great Britain 1978  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Cloth weight 870g. small nick to bottom of dj spine. light rubbing to edges, othewrise very neat and clean  Good to Very Good Price: $18.00 (AUD) Book Number: 013384  Bookseller: Book Lore Postage Rates     A General Introductory Guide to the Egyptian Collections in the British Museum no author ISBN: 0714109088 British Museum Publications Limited Great Britain 1976 Reprint 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover Small previous owners name to top of front endpaper and front free endpaper. 267 pages with B/W illustrations.   Good + Price: $17.00 (AUD) Book Number: 005369  Bookseller: Terra Australis Books Postage Rates     A Guide to Prehistoric England. Thomas, Nicholas London. B.T.Batsford. 1960.      8vo. hardcover. 268pp. index. b/w illus. very good. / good d/w chipped on top edge.'  Price: $35.00 (AUD) Book Number: 30933  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     A Handbook of Greek Art Richter, Gisela M. ISBN: 0714824968 Phaidon Press, Incorporated London, United Kingdom 1992 Ninth Edition, Third Impressio 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Soft Cover Usual library marks and wear. 431 pages with B/W photo's. A survey of the Visual Arts of Ancient Greece. Lucidly arranged according to subject matter, the richly illustrated text covers architecture, large sculpture, statuettes, paintings and mosaics, gems, coins, jewellery, pottery and vase painting, furniture, textiles, glass, ornament and epigraphy. Ex-Library Good Price: $20.00 (AUD) Book Number: 005940  Bookseller: Terra Australis Books Postage Rates     A Handbook of Greek Art Richter, Gisela ISBN: 0714816493 Phaidon Press Oxford 1977 Reprint 4to - up to 12" tall - Quarto Paperback 915 g.; X, the 11-432 pages, last page blank, preface by author, maps, notes, bibliography, tentative chronology of sculptural works, glossary, sources of photographs, list of places and index of names. The text is illustrated with 520 black-and-white photographs of Greek art and artefacts. Colourised black-and-white photograph to the front panel with blue background and black and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges. Reading crease to the backstrip. Some curling of the front panel. Very light age toning of the text block edges. " An authoritative and beautifully illustrated introduction to Greek visual arts by one of the great archaeologists of our time. Dr. Richter's lucid and concise presentation will enable every reader, whether or not he has previous knowledge of ancient Greece, to understand one of the greatest chapters in the history of European art and to appreciate the countless masterpieces that have survived from Hellenic times." -- from the rear panel blurb. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. ***** PLEASE NOTE: This book weighs more than 1 kg [ 2.2 lbs ] packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside of Australia. Art Good Price: $16.50 (AUD) Book Number: 0108048  Bookseller: Syber's Books Postage Rates     A History of Europe Vol. I: From the Earliest Times to 1713 Fisher, H. A. L. ISBN: NOISBN Collins London 1970  Small Duodecimo (12mo), approx. 7" (180mm) tall. Paperback Paperback, duodecimo (12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall), classified as good-very good. Clean and tight copy with some age tan, light creasing to covers and spine, small brown stain on foreedge and light moisture stains inside covers. Illustrated with maps. We respond promptly to requests for more detailed description, scanned images and other reachable information.  Good-very Good Price: $11.00 (AUD) Book Number: 104806  Bookseller: BookSplendour Postage Rates     A History of Greece J. B. Bury ISBN: 0333084845 Macmillan and Co, Limited London, England 1970 Third Edition Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 925 pages. Dust jacket price clipped.  Good Price: $17.00 (AUD) Book Number: 006093  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A History of Greece to 322 B. C. N. G. L. Hammond Oxford at The Clarendon Press Great Britain 1963  Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 689 pages. Dust jacket price clipped.   Good Price: $17.50 (AUD) Book Number: 006955  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A History Of Greece to 322 B.C. N. G. L. Hammond Oxford at The Clarendon Press Oxford, UK 1967 Second Edition  Hard Cover 691 pages. First published 1959.   Near Fine Price: $17.00 (AUD) Book Number: 003227  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell) London Macmillan 1987      4to softcover 577pp index, b/w illus, fold-out map. good. '...a thoroughly reliable and a highly attractive volume. Meiggs is to be congratulated on his success in combining preservation and adaptation so successfully.' - Hermathena '...a major overhaul by Russell Meiggs in the light of modern research...The future of Bury's History as a major reference work seems assured.' - Ancient History 'Bury resurgens: seventy-five years old and still going strong!...Bury-Meiggs is now once again indisputably the standard history of Greece for the sixthformer and undergraduate.' - JACT Bulletin  Price: $18.00 (AUD) Book Number: 35051  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     A History of My Times Xenophon ISBN: 0140441751 Penguin, 1987 reprint      425pp, Penguin Classics Series paperback in very good condition Price: $15.00 (AUD) Book Number: 65318  Bookseller: Fine Print Books Postage Rates     A History of Roman World 753 to 146 BC Scullard, H. H. ISBN: 0416298605 Methuen Great Britain 1976  Small Octavo, approx. 8 1/4" (210mm) tall. Trade Paperback Trade sized paperback, in a near good-very good condition. Solid, tight copy with covers protected with plastic wrappers, previous owner's name on front endpaper, lightly yellowed pages with tiny crosses on sides of a few pages. Otherwise pages are clean and lightly yellowed. Illustrated with 4 folding maps. We answer questions and, if required, supply scanned images or further info, within 24 hours.  * Good - Very Good Price: $30.00 (AUD) Book Number: 109778  Bookseller: BookSplendour Postage Rates     A History of Rome to A.D. 565 Sinnigen, William & Boak, Arthur ISBN: 0029796903 Collier Macmillan New York 1977 Sixth Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Paperback 800 g; XVIII, 558 pages, indexed, with supplementary reading lists, genealogical tables, chronological table, double page map showing the growth of the Roman Empire 44 BC -- 300 A.D., and double page map showing the Roman Empire under the Principate. Text is illustrated with black-and-white images and other maps. The only damage to the book is the previous owner's name stamp at the top right-hand corner of the first page, and on the front edge of the text block. History -- Roman Good Price: $14.00 (AUD) Book Number: 0225297  Bookseller: Syber's Books Postage Rates     A History of the Athenian Constitution to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. C. Hignett Oxford London 1967 Reprint 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover Jacket has soiling,wear and nicks.Small marks to boards,foxing to endpapers and ends.Contents very good.420 pages.  Good Price: $40.00 (AUD) Book Number: 001875  Bookseller: Terra Australis Books Postage Rates     A History of the Olympics Messinesi, Xenophon Leon ISBN: 0847311627 Drake Publishing New York 1976 First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Pictorial Cover Good copy, with plastic sleeve protecting the dust jacket, with the usual ex-library markings and attachments, and with the general wear average for this type of book. We promptly attend to requests for detailed description, more info, and/or scanned images. Ex-Library Good Price: $19.43 (AUD) Book Number: 007551  Bookseller: BookSplendour Postage Rates     A History Of The Roman People Heichelheim Fritz M; Yeo Cedric A. Prentice Hall Inc Englewood Cliffs 1962 First Edition  Hard Cover 480 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. This book examines the historical evolution of Rome, from its earliest beginnings as a cluster of mud-hut villages on the seven hills to its das of glry as an empire embracing the entire mediterranean region and huge segments of Europe, Asia, and Africa.  Fine Price: $34.71 (AUD) Book Number: 024693  Bookseller: Marlowes Books Postage Rates     A History of the Vikings Jones, Gwyn Book Club Associates, London, 1973.      8vo. hardcover. 504pp. index, b/w illus. very good, owner's signature on fep. / very good d/w.  Price: $19.00 (AUD) Book Number: 39493  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     A Land of Gods and Giants Mick Sharp ISBN: 1856482146 Fraser Stewart Books Abingdon 1994   Hard Cover 191 pages with 120 colour photos.Explores the remains of a ceremonial landscape created by settled farming communities in Britain between c.3500 and 800BC.  Fine Price: $20.00 (AUD) Book Number: 001282  Bookseller: Terra Australis Books Postage Rates     A Smaller History of Rome from the Earliest Time to the Establishment of the Empire Smith, William ISBN: NOISBN Walton and Maberly London 1866  12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Original Cloth Sixth edition. The text block is in reasonably good condition for the book's age, tight, with the inevitable foxing appearing on some pages. The dark brown-grey cover, though very solid, has a number of small light spots in the spine area, which may have been caused by insect. Further information and/or an E-mail photo available on request.  Fair Price: $25.94 (AUD) Book Number: 001201  Bookseller: BookSplendour Postage Rates     Abandoned Places, The Legacy of Past Cultures and Civilizations Adkins, Lesley and Roy London: New Burlington Books, 1990      4to. hardcover. 127pp. index. colour illus. near fine. / very good+ d/w.  Price: $18.00 (AUD) Book Number: 21314  Bookseller: Dial a Book Postage Rates     Abydos-Esna, Edfu-Komombo, Aswan-Kalabsha, Philae, Abu Simbel A. Van Der Heyden Al Ahram / Elsevier   Third Printing  Soft Cover 72 pages. A souvenir book with map and 72 photographs.   Good Price: $12.50 (AUD) Book Number: 008778  Bookseller: Leura Books Postage Rates     Aeneid VI Virgil and Fletcher, Frank (ed) Oxford University Press, 1972 reprint      147pp hardcover in very good condition, dustwrapper a little worn, price-clipped Price: $35.00 (AUD) Book Number: 61115  Bookseller: Fine Print Books Postage Rates     Aeschylus (Translated Into English Prose ) Paley, Frederici A. Deighton Bell and Company Cambridge 1871 Reissued 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Purple Cloth 600 g; VIII, 248 pages, +16 pages of educational works published by George Bell & Sons. This is a reading copy, all the pages are present, the boards have faded, and been bumped, the text block has been foxed, the sewing is visible, etc etc. digital image available upon request. "I have made very many alterations in this (the second) edition, but nearly all in the way of simplifying and bridging the language, were that could be done without detriment to the sense." -- the translator in his introduction Classic Poor Price: $14.00 (AUD) Book Number: 0215342  Bookseller: Syber's Books Postage Rates     AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY Parrinder Geoffrey ISBN: 1851529284 Chancellor Press, London  1997   Laminated Pictorial Boards   As New Price: $10.00 (AUD) Book Number: 006029  Bookseller: Little Lane Books Postage Rates     After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology James, Allison; Hockey, Jenny and Dawson, Andrew (ed) ISBN: 041515006X Routledge, 1997      273pp paperback in good condition, some underlining in pencil Price: $45.00 (AUD) Book Number: 65218  Bookseller: Fine Print Books Postage Rates     Akhenaten : Egypt’s False Prophet Reeves, Nicholas ISBN: 0500051062 Thames & Hudson London, United Kingdom 2001  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hard Cover Usual library marks and wear plus lean to spine. 208 pages with 23 colour and 118 b/w illustrations.  Ex-Library Good (minus) Price: $20.00 (AUD) Book Number: 013384  Bookseller: Terra Australis Books Postage Rates   731 Ancient History Books         Go to page:    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11        Next 30 Books