Author: STARR, CHESTER G.
Title: A History of the Ancient World
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1965. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. White title on green cloth boards which are unmarked with a touch of wear to spine tail. Internally there are marks to the top margins of 8 pages else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is not price clipped. xvii + 742 pages. 32 plates. 20 maps. 10 tables. Coloured map of ancient Greece and Italy to front endpapers and coloured map of the Roman Empire at the time of Trajan to rear endpapers. This survey of ancient history, from the beginnings of man to breaking up of the ancient forms of civilization in the fifth century A.D. centres on the great stream of development from the Near East through Greece and Rome. It treats briefly the contemporaneous civilizations of China and India, both to show the occasional links and to trace the origin of cultural patterns important today. PLEASE NOTE : A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.35 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Ancient History


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