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  • Seller image for Forty centuries: From the Pharaohs to Alfred the Great for sale by Argyl Houser, Bookseller

    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is actually a compilation of essays by many writers about ancient and early Asian and European history with the addition of a great many illustrations. The book has sound hinges and is not cocked. There are a few words on the first free endpage; otherwise pages are clean, unmarked and undamaged. Exterior covers are clean and the gilt lettering on the spine is bright. There is a small bump on the back cover and one shallow dent in the top edge of the back cover. No bumped corners or rubbing to extremities. The dust jacket is clean with light toning (age tanning) to the white portions (inside flaps). It has a single small tear and a light crease at the top edge of the inside front flap and a couple of other light creases near the top edge. Very little wear otherwise. It has been put in a clear archival sleeve to keep it looking great. The book, dust jacket and sleeve will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This is a heavy, oversize book that will probably require extra funds for shipping outside of the United States. The following essays (or chapters) are included: "Gift of the Nile" by Leonard Cottrell; "The First Law Code" by Jean Bottero; "The Eruption of Santorin" by M.S.F. Hood; "The Aryan Invasion of India" by Eric J. Sharpe; "Let My People Go" by James Parkes; Ramses III Defeats the Sea Peoples" by Marcel Brion; "The Prophet of the East" by Trevor Ling; "Victorious Athens" by Peter Green; "The Death of Alexander the Great" by George Woodcock; "Building the Great Wall of China" by D. Howard Smith; "Hannibal Challenges Rome" by Gilbert Charles-Picard; "The Slaves' Revolt" by Jack Lindsay; "The Battle of Actium" by Michael Grant; "Arminius, Liberator of Germany" by Michael Grant; "Jesus of Nazareth, Savior God of a New Religion" by S.G.F. Brandon; "The Destruction of Zion" by S.G.F. Brandon; "In This Sign Shalt Thou Conquer" by Robert Browning; "Mission to Ireland" by Nora Chadwick; "The Scourge of God" by Jean Favier; "The Rule of St. Benedict" by David Knowles; "The Flight to Medina" by S.M. Stern; "Japanese Renaissance" by Geoffrey Hindley; "A Crown for Charlemagne" by Friedrich Heer; and "England for the English" by Jack Lindsay.