Sketches of Ancient Biography : Warriors, Philosophers and Legislators
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324pp. Quarter bound in soft leather over buckram, with blind embossed decorations - likely rebacked. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Rubbed at corners, worn through at spine tips. Reinforced endpapers, cracked between frontis and title page. Very mild toning, else clean, neat and bright internally. A collection of biographical sketches of ancient warriors such as Julius Caesar, Pompey. Leonidas, Aristides etc; Philosophers including Zeno, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes etc; and legislators including Solom and Numa. Very hard to find volume.
