Ancient History from David Ford Books

Edinburgh Bell and Bradfute, Peter Hill, Silvester Doig, A. Stirling, and John Ogle, 1811 Hardcover books, A New edition 1811 in a twelve volume set . Illustrated with two maps by Thos. Kitchin of the Eastern and Western parts of the Roman Empire. Each book is bound in half-leather with decorated gilt panels to spine. The… Read more about this item

Dublin, Hodges Figgis, & Co, 1913 Hardcover book, first edition, 107 pages, no dustjacket. With eleven plates and eighty-five illustrations. This book carries the library stamps of St. Ignatius of 35 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin? Green buckram covers with titles and border line in gilt. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2000 Hardcover book, first edition (U.S) in dustjacket. 1024 pages with 32 pages of colour illustrations. The background to the intellectual , ethical and political thought and ideas that the civilisation of the west draws and returns to. A near Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Previous owner's inscription to front end-paper. Pictures… Read more about this item

London, Routledge,1999 Hardcover book, 3rd edition Fully revised. 685 pages. No dustjacket. A nice clean copy of this revised edition ,An account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century B.C. until the Roman Conquest. A near Fine copy. Previous Sellers Business label to end paper, no other inscriptions. Pictures available.

London, Macmillan and Co Limited,1912 Hardcover book, first edition, no dustjacket. 406 pages, illustrated with maps, plans and illustrations. Testing the tradition of the Trojan war by comparing the text of Homer with the natural conditions described in the Iliad. A Good copy wirth some fading and staining along foredge of covers. Spine slightly dulled and sunned but binding… Read more about this item

London, Cassell, 1959 Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket.237 pages with illustrations. Signed and dedicated by the author to title page. Some of the most exciting stories in the history of Archaeology. A very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket with two rubbed patches to front. Pictures available.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 English editions of books originally published in France. One volume is a first English ed., the others are reprints. Complete in 3 volumes, of uniform design. Hardcover. Orange brown cloth with gilt titles to spine on black panels, and colour pictorial dustjackets. Book Vol 1: 350 to 950. 1997 reprint. 556pp. Book Vol.2: 950-1250.… Read more about this item

New York, The Monacelli Press,2001 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 286 pages. With many colour photos in plates . Very Good in near Fine jacket . Small bump to edge of front cover. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

London: Profile Books, 2015 First edition. first impression. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 606pp. With colour pictorial endpapers, This is Waterstones exclusive 'extra colour plate' section edition with 10 extra colur illustrations. 21 colour illustrations in plates, 103 b&w illustrations in text and 5 maps. A brilliant and accessible history of ancient Rome, how it grew… Read more about this item

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 279 pages with illustrations. An investigation of one of the wonders of the ancient world. A Fine copy in a near Fine, slightly sunned dustjacket. Pictures available.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009 Softcover book, 204 pages with illustrations. A fine copy without inscriptions. Pictures available.

London, Max Parrish, 1958 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket, 90 pages with illustrations plans and 2 maps. G plus short bibliography.A Very Good copy with previous owners name in a Very Good unclipped dustjacket with light handling wear. Pictures available.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1968 First edition. Hardcover book. Cloth, gilt titles and publisher's emblem, and pictorial dustjacket. 198 pages. With 67 b&w photos, 22 line drawings, 1 map. In the Ancient Peoples and Places series,Very Good book in Very Good protected jacket. Pictures available

London: Chatto & Windus 1977 Based upon the Romantic Lectures 1976. Hard cover book, First Edition. 89pp. A Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. with very light creases to top edge. Pictures available.

New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1964 Hardcover book. Cloth, gilt titles and publisher's emblem, and pictorial dustjacket. 240 pages. With 67 b&w photos, 41 line drawings, 1 map. In the Ancient Peoples and Places series,Very Good book in Very Good protected jacket. Previous owners name. Pictures available

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1983. First edition. Hardcover book and dustjacket. 368pp. With 213 b/w photos and illustrations, maps. Very Good in near Fine price clipped protected jacket; clean and bright. Top closed page edge slightly foxed. No inscriptions, pictures available.

cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000 Hardcover book , second edition in dustjacket. 319 pages with illustrations , maps, diagrams and drawings. Following five seasons of experimental trials of the reconstructed warship, a much updated second edition with new information and research findings together with descriptions of the trials carried out with Olympias. A Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. No… Read more about this item

London, Macmillan and Co, 1891 Hardcover book, first edition. 457 pages with one coloured fold-out plan and two other plans. Contains eight lectures given in 1890 at the Lowell Institute. A Very Good copy in full leather binding by Wilson, Cambridge. School arms in gilt to front cover. Marbled end papers and page edges. Binding firm , spine… Read more about this item

Washington, McGrath Publishing Company, 1973 Hardcover book , two volumes,reprints based on the work of Samuel Birch published in 1857. Volume 1, 504 pages with plates and other illustrations in the text. Volume 2, 588 pages again with plates and other illustrations. A total of 69 plates in the two volumes. Book condition Very Good, a … Read more about this item

London, Methuen & Co Ltd. 1931 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 413 pages. Covering and surveying the whole domain, origin and development of Greek Comic Drama. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Foxing to closed page edges, Attractive book plate of the previous owner to front pastedown. No other inscriptions. Jacket nice without tears with… Read more about this item