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$9.99 Shipping Location: Ivanhoe, Australia Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. In the 17th century there was slow progress ... morein trade and population growth. This large original copper-plate engraved antique print a view of the town and port of Liverpool in Northern England at the turn of the 19th century was engraved in 1820 - dated at the foot of the print - and published in the 1822 edition ofPanorama of Science and Art by Jonas Nuttall & Henry Fisher & co.
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Free Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Antiquity: The Civilization of the Ancient World by Norman F. Cantor. DESCRIPTION: Hardback with Dust Jacket: 240 pages. Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers; ... more2003) Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world. From the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley(what is now present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 453. In"Antiquity" Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome. In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis. The author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative. He explains leading themes in religion and philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health. With his signature authority and insight, Cantor highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today. CONDITION: NEW. Unblemished except VERY slight rubbing to dustjacket(dustjacket is photo-finish. High-gloss dark blue and so shows rub marks very easily, even merely from being shelved between other books) Pages are pristine; clean, crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unread, though it is of course possible that it may have been flipped through once or twice by bookstore"lookie-loo's" Satisfaction guaranteed. In stock, ready to ship. PLEASE SEE IMAGES BELOW FOR SAMPLE PAGES FROM INSIDE OF BOOK. PLEASE SEE PUBLISHER. PROFESSIONAL, AND READER REVIEWS BELOW. PUBLISHER REVIEW: REVIEW: Norman F. Cantor was Emeritus Professor of History. Sociology, and Comparative Literature at New York University. His academic honors include appointments as a Rhodes Scholar, Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow at Princeton University, and Fulbright Professor at Tel Aviv University. His many books include the New York Times bestseller"In the Wake of the Plague" Antiquity" Inventing the Middle Ages" which was nominated for a National Book Critics
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$9.99 Shipping Location: Ivanhoe, Australia Date: - 1820. Hall, Sydney 1788 - 1831. Pricing is based on a number of different factors, the most important of which is regional. The word Antique in ... morethe traditional sense refers to an item that is more than a hundred years old.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Scythian Gold is a magnificent exploration of an intriguing ancient culture. 295 illustrations, 240 in full color. “Scythian Gold: Treasures from Ancient ... moreUkraine” by Ellen D. Reeder. Scythian Art.
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Free Shipping Location: Greece A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath". ERINYES MINI BRONZE MASK. The mask ... morewas a necessary device for the ancient Greeks who developed the art of theater.
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$3.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Ferndale, United States Publisher: Facts On File, Inc. (1993). The gods are listed in alphabetical order, and the index in the back also lists by subject, like gods of agriculture, ... moregods of fertility, etc. and lists the gods by civilization, such as Incan gods, Egyptian gods, Greek gods, Norse gods etc.
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$6.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States Author Kenneth Lapatin studied Greek art and archaeology at the University of California, Berkley; at Oxford; and in Athens as a Fulbright Scholar. He ... moreis currently Assistant Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum Malibu, California.
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$6.27 Shipping Location: BATH, United Kingdom Asia Minor by Alexander Adam 1797. Engraved by Samuel John Neele. Alexander Adam (1741 - 1809) was a Scottish teacher and writer on Greek and Roman antiquities. ... moreThis map appears in 'A summary of Geography and History, both ancient and modern', published in London by Cadell and Davies.Samuel John Neele (1758 - 1824) was an engraver and mapmaker active at the turn of the 19th Century working at 352 The Strand, London.
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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States The Gallic Chronicle of 452 A.D., talks about the Saxons ruling over a large part of Southern Britain, also consistent with the rise of the number of ... moreSaxon archaeological material after 450 A.D. The earliest Anglo-Saxon burial in Britain has been dated by archaeologists to no later than 425-450 A.D.
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$6.49 Shipping Condition: Very Good Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : This book chronicles the beautiful exhibit of Scythian and Sarmatian treasures that traveled to New York and to L.A. in 1975. REVIEW : This beautiful ... morefull-color museum catalogue chronicles the beautiful exhibit of Scythian and Sarmatian treasures that traveled to New York and to L.A. in 1975.
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$4.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Enjoy this masterpiece of literature in one of the best translations available to date: your money will be well spent. REVIEW: The Odyssey is an amazing ... morenovel. This novel is great because it gives us a look at what ancient Greece was like.
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$7.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The period is not, of course, a renaissance in the sense or with the characteristics of the quattrocento. Furthermore, the Eastern Orthodox Church, which ... moreserved as a cohesive social and cultural institution, subsequently formalized many of the guidelines for artistic production in reverence for the Church's teachings and theological perspectives.
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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States HISTORY OF ROMAN PANNONIA : Pannonia was an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, bordering Noricum and upper Italy ... moreto the west, and Dalmatia and upper Moesia to the south.
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Free Shipping Location: Greece He was associated with the Roman/Etruscan god Vediovis. He was one of Apollo's sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet Paean ("the Healer"). Those physicians ... moreand attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States However by the 6th century the Continental Celtic languages were no longer in wide use. REVIEW: The Celts once populated an area rivaling the Roman Empire ... moreat its peak, yet our knowledge of them is limited to secondhand accounts, a few written records, and beautiful artifacts scattered from Turkey to Ireland.
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$6.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The country was considered the most suitable for the manufacture of such commodities. As the distillation of alcohol was not known until the fourth century ... moreBC the scents were extracted by steeping plants, flowers or splinters of fragrant wood in oil to obtain essential oil, which would then be added to other oils or fat.
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Free Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish Antique 19th Century Genuine ... moreNatural One-Third Carat Flawless/Near Flawless Exceptionally Good Quality Faceted Siamese Ruby Oval. CLASSIFICATION: Faceted Ruby Precious Gemstone Oval. ORIGIN: Siam. 19th Century. SIZE: Length: 4mm. Width: 3mm. Depth(Thickness) 3mm. Measurements approximate. WEIGHT: 0.31 carats. NOTES: Upon request we can set your gemstones as a ring. Pendant, or as earrings(click for more information) DETAIL: In Antiquity and through the Middle Ages it was believed that the cosmos was reflected in gemstones. And ruby was associated with the planet Mars. The ancient Romans also associated ruby with Mars, the Roman God of War(known as“Ares” to the ancient Greeks, son of Juno and Zeus) He was a very popular god with the Romans, and appeared frequently on Roman coinage up until the time of Constantine I. Though Mars was best known as the God of War, he was also one of the mightiest gods of nature; according fertility to the herds and protection to the fields. The first month of the old Roman year was dedicated to Mars as the fertilizing god of spring. Nonetheless, Mars was best known as the God of War, especially in the latter empire. When war broke out, Roman Generals would ceremonially invoke his aid by smiting his holy lance and shield with the cry, Mars Awake” Ruby was also associated with the principles of justice and its administrators within the ancient Roman judicial system. Here's an absolutely exquisite. Exceptionally good quality 19th century antique hand faceted ruby from Siam(present day Thailand) Hand crafted by a 19th century Russian artisan, part of an heritage renown for the production of the elaborate gemstones and jewelry of the Czars of Medieval, Renaissance, and Victorian Russia. Originally used in indigenous jewelry, this is a very pretty precious gemstone, with a highly desirable blood red color and rich texture. This sparkling precious gemstone
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW : The sixteenth century saw a flowering of classical painting in Persia. Chinese-style rocks and trees mingle with Islamic calligraphy and Persian ... morelegends. May I suggest Anthony Welch's two books "Artists for the Shah" and "Shah `Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan", "Persian Drawings" by B. W. Robinson, and "Persian Painting" by Basil Gray.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Author Joseph Deiss reveals the story of the fatal eruption of Vesuvius from many different perspectives: from the letters of Pliny the Younger, from ... morethe studies of volcanologists, and from the amazing array of evidence uncovered by successive generations of archeologists.
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Educated at Eton College and Sandhurst, Major William Joseph Myers (1858-99) started collecting in Egypt in the 1880s. "Sacred and Profane" celebrates ... morethis extraordinary bequest discussing statuettes of mortals and gods, mummy masks, jewelry, pottery and papyri in a thematic way alongside Roman and Byzantine coins from the rich Barber Institute of Fine Arts collections.
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Free Shipping Location: Greece He mixed all the effective antidotes into a single one, mithridatium or mithridate. Emperor Nero's physician Andromachus improved upon mithridatum by ... morebringing the total number of ingredients to sixty four, including viper's flesh, a mashed decoction of which, first roasted then well aged, proved the most constant ingredient.
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$10.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States In the mid ninth century B.C. the King of Israel marched in alliance with the Aramaic Kingdom against Assyria, the conflict ending in a deadlock, but ... morea deadlock which presaged a withdrawal of Assyrian forces from the region of the Levant.
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$23.89 Shipping Location: Miami, United States Bvlgari, was founded in the late 19th century by Sotirio Bulgari, who was born in 1857 in Greece and was descended from a talented family of silversmiths. ... moreThey are credited with creating the highly distinctive ‘Bvlgari’ style, inspired by Greek and Roman classicism revival, the Italian Renaissance, and the 19th century Roman school of goldsmiths.
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$50.19 Shipping Location: United Kingdom It has been suggested that the foliage of the Greek Corinthian capital was based on the Acanthus spinosus, that of the Roman on the Acanthus mollis. The ... moreleaves are generally carved in two "ranks" or bands, like one leafy cup set within another.
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