THE ROMAN HISTORY OF APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA: TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK
Book Details + Condition: The Macmillian Company (New York and London). First Edition, 1899. Complete two-volume hardcover set. Pagination: 413pp; 486pp - with Index. Illustrated. White’s two-volume translation of ancient Greek historian and Alexandrian official Appian's (95 AD - 165 AD) "History of Rome". "Appian explains the process by which the Roman Empire achieved its contemporary prosperity, and his unique method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up through her own civil wars. His history is particularly strong on financial and economic matters, and on the operations of warfare and diplomacy." [Harvard University Press review] The work remains among the principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic.
From the massive collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; chafed spine ends; Parker's bookplate to inside front board, and info to ffep; interior is clean and free of markings. Front & rear free endpapers of Vol I are partially glued to inside front & rear boards (possibly the result of an old repair job, or a publishing error).
