OATES, Joan, Colin F. MacDONALD, Jane TAYLOR, Michael GRANT and Carl W. BLEGEN

Lost Cities of the Ancient World [a five-volume boxed set of books by the above individual authors]

London, The Folio Society, 2005 (all volumes, first thus).

Small quarto, five volumes, with numerous plans and many illustrations, plus numerous pages of colour plates, endpaper maps and a folding plan in an end-pocket (in the second volume).

Gilt and black-pictorial cloth; a fine set in the near-fine slipcase (slightly dusty).

Retrospectively by the above authors, the five volumes are Babylon; Knossos; Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans; Pompeii and Herculaneum. Cities of Vesuvius; and Troy and the Trojans. Each volume features an introduction, the first three volumes by their respective authors, the other two by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and Donald Easton. [5 items].

Item #146444

Price (AUD): $300.00
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