Empires Ascendant, 400 BC to 200 AD (History of the World Series)
Reprint. 178pp, with glorious colour illustrations throughout. Coloured endpapers. In deep blue faux leather cushioned covers with gilt rules and tipped on illustration on front board, gilt lettering and titles (very mild rubbing on corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight). 4to. A magnificently illustrated narrative study of the Odyssey of Alexander the Great; The Grandeur of Imperial Rome; The Quest for Power in the East; and the Flowering of China, 400 BC to 200 AD.