The Cambridge Ancient History

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Various Printings.

23.5cm x 16cm. 14 volumes in 19. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.

Complete set of the second series. “Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies.” (publisher’s blurb) Vol. I Part 1 printed in 2006, all other volumes in 2007. Volume I Part I: Prolegomena and Prehistory; Part II: Early History of the Middle East; Vol. II Part I: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1800-1380; Part II: History of the Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380-1000; Vol. III Part I: The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.; Part II: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C; Part III: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C; Vol. IV: Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean C. 525 to 479 B.C.; Vol. V: The Fifth Century B.C.; Vol. VI The Fourth Century B.C.; Vol. VII, Part I: The Hellenistic World; Part II: The Rise of Rome to 220 B.C.; Vol. VIII: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 B.C.; Vol. IX: The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C.; Vol. X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69; Vol XI: The High Empire, A.D. 70-192; Vol. XII The Crisis of Empire, A.D. 193-337; Vol. XIII: The Late Empire, A.D. 337-425; Vol. XIV: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A.D. 425-600.

Minor shelf wear to jackets. Previous owner’s label to front endpaper. Near Fine Condition.

AU$2,500.00

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