Category :: History ::

A10484. ROSTOVTZEFF, M. - The Social & Economic History of the Hellenistic World.
Clarendon Press: Oxford 1972
Notes: HARDBACKS. THREE VOLUME SET. xxiv; 602; viii; 603-1312; (vi); (1313)-1779 pages. 112 plates. Original green cloth in price-clipped but otherwise complete dust wrappers, tiny knick to the front of one dust wrapper, otherwise a VIRTUALLY UNUSED SET
Condition: Fine
Size: 8vo.

A6882. ROWSE, A. L. - The Early Churchills An English Family.
MacMillan & Co: London 1959
Notes: xi; (i); (ii)(pedigree); 420 pages. Frontispiece, 15 plates. Light shadows on endpapers. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine slightly bumped, in complete dust jacket, which is now protected in a clear, loose, plastic sleeve
Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo.

A6881. ROWSE, A. L. - The Later Churchills.
MacMillan & Co: London 1958
Notes: xv; 528 pages. Frontispiece, 11 plates. Very light shadowing on endpapers. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine in complete dust jacket, now protected in a clear, loose, plastic sleeve. A very fresh copy
Condition: Near Fine
Size: 8vo.

A11632. RYDER, Dudley, 1st Earl of Harrouby & Viscount Sandon ... (1762-1847) ... politician at whose house Thistlewood and fellow conspirators intended to assassinate the whole cabinet in Feb, 1820.

Notes: One page ALs, Dec. 17th, 1823, Sandon to the Rt. Hon. Thomas Wallace. He will take care that Mrs Trevelyan's letter shall be brought before the cabinet when they meet for selection. With wax seal below signature and the signed address panel of an 1817 letter of his brother (Home Secretary) to Mrs Trevelyan. The whole laid on card witha long newspaper obituary of Harrouby

A9539. SALMON, E.T. - Roman Colonization under the Republic.
Thames and Hudson: London 1969
Notes: FIRST EDITION. 208 pages. Illustrated with 61 plates, 13 plans and maps. In original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and device on front board in price-clipped otherwise complete dustwrapper which is faded on the spine. "Professor Salmon shows how her strategically placed colonies contributed to the growth of Rome from a small city-state to a world empire." HARDBACK
Condition: Fine
Size: 8vo

A9933. SALMON, J.B. - Wealthy Corinth A History of the City to 338 BC.
Oxford University Press: Oxford 1984
Notes: FIRST EDITION. xviii; 464 pages. Illustrated with 24 plates and 18 text-figures. In original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine in complete dustwrapper. "This is the first book in any language to deal with Corinth over the whole period to the Macedonian occupation of Acrocorinth in 338 B.C." HARDBACK
Condition: Fine
Size: Tall 8vo

A11849. SANFORD, John Langton. - Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion.
John W. Parker & Sons: London 1858
Notes: vi; (ii); 630; (ii) + 8 (publisher catalogue) pages. Large folding plan of the battle of Marston Moor. Inner hinges tender. Original dark green cloth slight pulling at the head of the spine
Condition: Good +
Size: 8vo.

A9649. SARGENT, Rachel Louisa. - The Size of the Slave Population at Athens during the Fifth and Fourth Centuries before Christ.
Greenwood Press Publishers: Westport 1973
Notes: 136 pages, Original red cloth. An essay on the slave population in Ancient Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. HARDBACK
Condition: Fine
Size: 8vo

A11188. SCHAPS, David M. - Economic Rights of Women in Ancient Greece.
University Press: Edinburgh 1979
Notes: (viii); 165 pages. Inner hinge of first few pages slightly spreading but firm. Original cloth in complete dust wrapper
Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo.

A11626. SCOTT, John, 1st Earl of Eldon ... (1751-1838) ... Lord Chancellor.

Notes: One and a quarter page ALs to his doctor seeking a 'certificate of my poor son's indisposition' in view of Mr Wynne's informing him 'that the House of Commons will be called over tomorrow