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.

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

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

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

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

London and New York: Routledge 1994 Hard cover book, First edition, 158pp, figures, maps and plates. Previous owners name and date top of fep. A near Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Pictures available.

London: British Museums 1978 A Colonnade Book, Hard cover, 63pp, colour frontis and 79 black and white illustrations. . Small neat inscription to fep. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Pictures available.

Leicester: Brockhamapton Press 1963 Hard cover book, first UK edition. 127pp, illustrations by Richard M. Powers, chronological chart of Mesopotamia and world events. One of the series about major cultures of the world. Clean copy, very minor bumping to spine ends and bottom corners. Dust jacket price clipped, light rubbing to bottom edges and minor loss to… Read more about this item

London, The British Museum Press,2007 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket.Photographic illustrations by Ivor Kerslake and Dudley Hubbard. The story of the Parthenon over 2000 years the changes and from pagan temple to world heritage monument. A Fine copy without inscriptions in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Pictures available.