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Published by Longmans, Green, London 1895
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Published by Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Stated Third Edition, based upon the original publication in 1866, with a Translator's Preface and Advertisement for this, the Third Edition. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, decided forward cock to spine. Rubbing to edges, tips, bumping to…, scuffing of spine head and tail. Burgundy cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine. Previous owner's inscription at half-title. xxi, 2-512 pp. plus 24 pp. of publisher's advertisements. Texts in English and Greek.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Published by Longmans, Green & Company, London 1882
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More imagesGallus; or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus, with Notes and Excursuses Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans [with] Charicles; or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks, with Notes and Excursuses
Becker, W.A. [Wilhelm Adolf]; Metcalfe, Frederick (Translator)
Language: English
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. 1876
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gallus: Front hinge weakening. Both volumes: Some loss to spine head and to spine base, ink stamp and ink name on front endpapers. 1876 Hard Cover. xxi, 535; xxi, 512 pp. Two volume set. Wilhelm Adolf Becker's classics works on life in ancient Greece and Rome, translated from the Germ…an by Rev. Frederick Metcalfe.
Published by John W. Parker, London 1845
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More imagesPublished by Longmans, Green and Co 1895
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Revised 'New Edition' (1895). No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Aged page block, with duste-toned edges. No dust jacket. Red cloth with silver titling to the spine. The boards remain sound and secure, but have bumped corners, a light crush to the spine ends, and sundry surface…shelf-marks. Translated by the Rev. Frederick Metcalfe, M.A. xxi, 512pp. Illustrated. (Full title: Charicles or Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancients. With Notes and Excursuses. From the German of Professor Becker.").
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Published by Longmans, Green, And Co, London 1899
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. New Edition. Maroon buckram binding. Paper shelf label to spine. Engraved bookplate to front pastedown endpaper (Swansea Training College). Decorative endpapers, good solid binding, clean text throughout. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches (13.5 x 19.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xxi…, 512, 40.
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co, London 1882
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
Contact seller3-star sellerHardcover. Condition: g- to vg. Seventh edition. Octavo. xxi, 535 (1)pp. Original full Morocco with gilt-stamped illustration and ruling on cover, gilt tooling and ruling with gilt lettering on black label of spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Contains advertisement to second edition, translator's and author's preface, Roman li…fe described in twelve scenes: The Roman Family, The Roman House, Studies and Letters, The Journey, The Villa, Lycoris, Baths and Gymnastics, Dress, The Banquet, The Drinkers, The Catastrophe, The Grave. Illustrated with in-text drawings and plans throughout. Contains index at rear. Binding with some wear along edges, front joint cracked but holding. Ex-Libris of the Merchant Taylors' School on inside front cover. Dealer stamp on verso of front endpaper. Front and back covers detached. Binding in overall poor, interior in very good condition.

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Published by Longman & Co 1882
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Add to basketHardcover (Quarter Leather). Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Early Edition. Text in English and Ancient Greek. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 512 pages. Text is in multiple languages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, b…ar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. No foxing in this copy. Edges foxed and browned. Top edge gilt, faded. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Greece; Ancient (BC); All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 34013. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

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Published by Longmans Green and Co. 1866
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Third Edition. Half-leather boards; boards and inner hinges are cracked. Joints crudely repaired with cellotape. Some wear and rubbing to boards. Spine label torn. Chipping and tears to spine ends. Marbled endpapers. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Xxi, 535 pp ; 535… pages.

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Charicles or Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks | With Notes and Excursuses | From the German of Professor Becker.
Becker, Wilhelm Adolf [Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1796 - September 30, 1846) was a German classical scholar and Professor of Archaeology at Leipzig University, better known as the author of Gallus] Translated by Reverend Frederick Metcalfe.
Published by Published by Longmans, Green and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London New Edition . 1895. 1895
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Add to basketNew edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back, chestnut brown end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains (xxi), 512 pp + 24 pp publisher's advertisements. Foxing to the front end papers, rubbing to the covers, hinges sound. Member of the P.B.F.A. GREECE (Ancient… Greek).
More imagesPublished by London: Longmans 1880
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. xxi 512p small heavy hardback, earth-brown full leather binding, colourful marbling patterns to edges and endpapers, firm binding, a little wear to spine, pages clean and neat, text in English and Greek with illustrations, bright gilt crests inscribed 'Coll Christi Cant' (Christ's College, Cambrid…ge), a unique copy, bears the signature of classical scholar Harris Rackham Language: English.

Published by Published by Longmans, Green and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London Fifth Edition . 1876. 1876
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Add to basketPublisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine, gilt vignette to the upper panel, original lemon end papers. 8vo 8½'' x 5¼'' xxii, 535 [pp]. Soiling to covers, corners soft, slight sun fading to the spine, free from foxing, some pencil underlining. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROMAN EMPIRE (Romanum).

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More imagesPublished by Longmans, Green, and Co. 1866, London 1866
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Add to basketPublisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Third edition. xxi, 512, 32 pp. Some b/w illustrations. Publisher's blind stamped cloth with spine gilt. Minor wear to extremities of binding. Small ink inscription to ffep. Odd spot but generally clean internally. The classic academic study of Ancient Greek social customs an…d everyday life by German professor, Wilhelm Adolf Becker, in its original Victorian cloth binding. 8vo.

Published by Longmans, Green, and Co. 8th edition, London 1886
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Add to basketCondition: Good. A few illustrations. Octavo plum cloth gilt rebacked in green (tips bumped some marks) Top Edge Gilt xxi +535pp coat of arms bookplate Robert Russell Baron on front endpaper, 2 inscriptions, prelims slightly foxed else internally V.G. 1 volume. Hardcover.
Gallus: or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus . Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans
Becker (Prof. W. A.). Translated by Rev. Frederick Metcalfe.
Published by John W. Parker 1849
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Revised and enlarged second edition. Two folding colour litho. plates. Two previous owner's names and small bookseller's label to front pastedown. Wear to head and tail of spine. Marking and tanning to closed edges. Occasional light foxing, otherwise contents VG, partially unopened.
More imagesPublished by Longmans, Green and Co., London 1895
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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good. An interesting insight into the Roman times of Augustus, translated from the original German. A second edition of the English translation, translated from the original German of W. A. Becker by Frederick Metcalfe.The original German edition of this work was published in 1838 and opened up fresh groun…d within the field of Roman Antiquities. This work is an interesting insight into the Roman times of Augustus with notes of the manners and customs of the Romans.With a catalogue to the rear.Previous owner bookplate to the front pastedown for S. Sproston. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some fading to the joints and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and a mark to the rear board. Previous owner bookplate to the front pastedown for S. Sproston and inscription to the page after the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly age toned but remain clean. Firmly bound. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.
Published by John W. Parker, London. 1844. First edition. 1844
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Add to basket8vo, 421pp + 6pp publisher's adverts; b/w illus. A very good hardback copy bound in original decorative blindstamped black cloth with gilt title to spine. 1cm crack at spine head joint & minor dampstaining to rear board. Previous owners' name to front free endpaper, half title & title pages. Rear endpapers water marked. Binding…sound.

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Seller: preigu, Osnabrück, Germanypreigu
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Charicles: or Illustrations of the private life of the ancient Greeks | Wilhelm Adolf; Metcalfe, Frederick Becker | Taschenbuch | Deutsch | MV-History | EAN 9783968727646 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbie…ter: preigu.
Published by London: Longmans, Green and co, 1866
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: Acceptable. NOT an ex-library book. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Some FOXING marks on inside cover pages. THIRD EDITION 1886. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

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More imagesPublished by Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886, London 1886
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Add to basketFull Vellum. Condition: Very Good. Eighth Edition. xxii, 535, [1] pp., Some b/w illustrations. Bright full vellum binding by Stoakley with bevelled edges and all edges gilt. With gilt-stamped arms of St John's College Cambridge to front, crowned Portcullis badge of the Tudors/ UK Parliament emblem and crowned Tudor rose to spine…. A few spots to endpapers. A firm, bright and near fine copy. The life of Cornelius Gallus and Roman domestic life, translated from the German of Professor W. A. Becker of the University of Leipzig, who is a classical archaeologist. 8vo.