ANCIENT HISTORY from Bookhome Sydney

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos, faint foxing edges, minor edgewear. 264 pp. This concise accessible book by Jonathan Harris examines the history of one of the medieval world's greatest empires. The author illuminates the very best of Byzantine civilisation and its remarkable influence on its neigbours… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia, 1975. Revised ed.. Paperback wide trade, good condition, black & white photos, maps, spine little creased, pages lightly toned, spine edges slightly rubbed, crease cover joins to spine, light toning inside covers, light foxing edges, minor edgewear. 327 pp. A pioneering prehistory of Australia up until 1788 by D. J. Mulvaney. Separate chapters cover… Read more about this item

Brisbane: University of Queensland Press (UQP), 1993. 1st ed.. Hardback folio, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, colour photos (many full-page), few black & white text-drawings, spine ends rubbed, minor edgewear jacket (few small scratches), small scuff front board. Heavy (1.7 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 240 pp.… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1963. 2nd ed.. Paperback trade, good condition, maps (one fold-out at front), pages lightly toned, spine little creased & rubbed, light foxing covers & inside covers & edges, few light creases covers, bottom edge slightly rubbed, minor edgewear, small sticker front cover, rubber stamp flyleaf, owner's name on flyleaf. 460 pp. A fascinating book about… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP), 1984. New ed.. Paperback thick small octavo, good condition, edges covers little rubbed, spine little creased, light foxing inside covers & flyleaves & title page, pages lightly toned, laminate little lifting corner tips cover, white background rear cover marked, some edgewear, owner's written name & date title page. 824 pp. The author has written… Read more about this item

London: Headline, 2000. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, colour plates, pages lightly toned, front hinge slightly split (pages firm), minor edgewear, faint sticker mark rear cover, owner's written name & date title page 341 pp. In this book, the author tells for the first time the full fascinating story of Tutankhamen. About 3500 years ago,… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co., 1969. Revised or 2nd ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in fair only dustjacket), edges & pages lightly toned, endpapers little foxed & toned, small mark front board, reverse side jacket lightly toned & foxed (some edgewear, slight loss bottom & top edges near spine, closed edge tears, spine ends scuffed, flaps creased). 308 pp.… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1963. 1st ed.. Hardback small octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), edges lightly foxed (minimal endpapers & title page), pages lightly toned, front flap creased jacket (price-clipped, reverse side lightly toned, minor edgewear, two marks rear cover, light foxing & toning), owner's written name & date 146 pp. This book is an attempt… Read more about this item

New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1971. New ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket, good condition, dark green cloth boards, faint foxing edges, top corner front cover bumped, spine ends rubbed, cover corner tips slightly rubbed, fore-edge rear cover slightly marked, owner's name & details front free flyleaf. 212 pp. New edition. A fascinating look at the Oligarchic Constitutions in Ancient… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 1998. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), maps, minor edgewear jacket, pages lightly toned. 248 pp. Anthony Podlecki provides a book about Perikles (Pericles), the creator of the educational reputation of classical Athens. This book traces his development from a somewhat hesitant and left-leaning politician, to a mature statesman fully committed… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939. Updated ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), brown cloth boards, black & white plates, frontispiece, fore-edge foxed (light foxing top edge), minor edgewear jacket (few colour spots front cover, flap price-clipped). 108 pp. (Ancient Greece: A Study, by Stanley Casson. Clarendon Press, hardback, 1939.) This readable but informative history of… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), 1994. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), red cloth boards, black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket (spine slightly faded, red panel near spine reverse side slightly faded, sticker marks & faint foxing reverse side), minor foxing endpapers. 235 pp. A narrative history of Hellenistic Macedonia from… Read more about this item

Sydney: Sydney University Press (SUP), 1987. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, few sketches, bottom corner tip front cover & top corner tip rear cover scuffed, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear, owner's written name. 92 pp. This book sets out the main sources for understanding 6th-century Athens, and accompanies them with a detailed historical commentary. The intention is… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1980. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback trade, good plus condition, black & white figures, top corner tip rear cover & last few pages lightly creased, pages lightly toned, top edge lightly foxed, some toning spine, minor edgewear, owner's written name & date. 224 pp. J. D. Landells provides a fascinating look at the great achievements of… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012. 2nd ed.. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white text-photos, figures, bottom corner front cover creased, minor edgewear. 218 pp. This book was written especially for the core topic of the New South Wales HSC Ancient History syllabus. The book details the social life, economy, politics, religion, architecture and entertainment of… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 2009. Paperback trade, very good condition, spine lightly creased, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 333 pp. Herodotus is known as the father of history, but he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, tireless investigative reporter and enlightened multiculturalist before the word existed. In… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Group, 2010. Reprint ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 316 pp. A retelling of the famous book written by Sir Thomas Malory and published in 1485 by Caxton's Press. The author's new retelling transforms this richly inventive medieval epic into a dramatic modern story brought to new… Read more about this item

London: New Holland, 2001. 1st ed.. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white drawings, colour photos (many full-page), minor edgewear jacket (reverse side lightly foxed), spine ends & edges little rubbed. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 144 pp. Explores the origins and development of hieroglyphic writing,… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987. Reprint ed.. Hardback large wide octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white drawings, minor edgewear jacket (reverse side lightly toned & faintly foxed), bookseller label, owner's written name. 152 pp. Barbara Watterson attempts to explain to the layperson the development and use of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The book is… Read more about this item

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1993. 1st ed.. Hardback large octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white drawings, maps, tables, minor edgewear jacket (reverse side lightly foxed), faint foxing top edge. 192 pp. The author has used translations of hundreds of the most commonly used hieroglyphs by providing easy-to-use tables, and examples from monuments, documents… Read more about this item