Butler, Samuel Atlas of Antient Geography 1841, Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, (23 x 15 cm.) Twenty-One (21) hand-colored double-page maps. Rebound in attractive marbled boards. Original title lable on front cover. Some damp staining to text, but maps are generally clean. A Handsome atlas. $150.00
New guide of Rome and the environs according to Vasi and Nibby Piale, Luigi 1845, Rome, L. Piale, (19 x 12 cm.), 532pp. Twenty-Five (25) full page engravings of Roman monuments. A guidebook of Rome organized as an eight day itinerary. There are tables in the front part of the book and a topographical index. Called for map not present Ex N.J Historical Society Library. Solid binding and clean interior SOLD
The Popes of Rome: Their ecclesiastical and political history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Leopold Ranke 1847, London, John Murray, (22 x 15 cm.) 2 volumes (xx, 609pp, vii, 629pp) Marbled boards with leather spine and corners; back hinge repaired. Leopold van Ranke 1795–1886, German historian, is generally recognized as the father of the modern objective historical school. He applied and elaborated Barthold Niebuhr’s scientific method of historical investigation. Ranke’s aim was to reconstruct the unique periods of the past as they actually were and to avoid injecting the history of former times with the spirit of the present; this approach to historiography is known as historicism. --The Columbia Encyclopedia $125.00
Findlay, Alexander G Classical Atlas, to Illustrate Ancient Geography; Comprised in Twenty-Five Maps 1850, New York, Harper and Brothers, 8vo (24 x 17 cm.) Twenty-Five (25) double-page hand-colored maps. Beautifully preserved original marbled boards with leather spine and 5 raised bands . Maps are very fresh with virtually no foxing. A gem!! $300.00
W.G. Cookesley Map of Ancient Rome & Index 1851, Eaton, E.P. Williams, 8vo (19.5x12.5 cm.), 116pp Narrative description of the architecture of ancient Rome with a folding cloth map of Rome (77 x 64 cm.) in back pocket. Fine antiquarian condition with clean pages and solid binding. One cm bottom spine loss; slight darkening at map folds that does not detract $150.00
Hughes, William Long's Atlas of Classical Geography, Edited By George Long 1856, Philadelphia, Blachard & Lea, (26 x 18.5 cm.) Brown buchram binding tight, extremities worn with taped spine Dedicatory note for Profesor T.C.Abbot and his pencilled signature on front endpapers 32 pages of text and 52 hand-colored maps/plans on 26 plates $150.00
Falke, Jacob von Greece and Rome, their life and art 1881, New York, H. Holt, Folio (40 x 30 cm.), 351pp Blue cloth with decorative gilt and gilt edges. Contents a bit loose but holding on well. Top of spine is torn but present. Profusely and beautifully illustrated history of Graeco-Roman Art and Manners translated from the German. Fifty-two (52} full page plates some double-page and hundreds of in-text illustrations. $275.00