Author: Joseph Jay Deiss
Title: Herculaneum: A City Returns to the Sun
Description: London , Souvenir Press, 1968. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this fascinating work on the history of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 59 AD, in the original dust wrapper. The first UK edition. First published in America in 1966. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and seventy-four monochrome illustrations, maps and charts. Collated complete. This work was written by Joseph Jay Deiss, an American author, historian and archaeologist, and provides a history of the ancient roman city of Herculaneum and its unfortunate demise by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The work discusses the eruption, the lives of the people who lived there and its excavation. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. The wrap is very smart with sunning to the spine, minor handling marks to the rear and the slightest edge wear. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Fine . Ill.: None stated. Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: First edition Herculaneum Mount Vesuvius History Herculaneum Joseph Jay Deiss None stated
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Title: Herculaneum: A City Returns to the Sun
Description: London , Souvenir Press, 1968. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this fascinating work on the history of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 59 AD, in the original dust wrapper. The first UK edition. First published in America in 1966. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and seventy-four monochrome illustrations, maps and charts. Collated complete. This work was written by Joseph Jay Deiss, an American author, historian and archaeologist, and provides a history of the ancient roman city of Herculaneum and its unfortunate demise by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The work discusses the eruption, the lives of the people who lived there and its excavation. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. The wrap is very smart with sunning to the spine, minor handling marks to the rear and the slightest edge wear. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Fine . Ill.: None stated. Fine/Very Good Indeed.
Keywords: First edition Herculaneum Mount Vesuvius History Herculaneum Joseph Jay Deiss None stated
Price: GBP 50.00 = appr. US$ 71.40 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 918Z37
- Book number: 918Z37
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