Lot 08236

J.B. Bury, D. Litt, LL.D., F.B.A., A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great. The Modern Library, New York, 1913. First Edition. 8vo, [8]+ix-xxii+[3]+2-885.  

Original clothed covers, cover and spine sketched on black and gold, occasional spotting on the covers and sunned spine. Light foxing in the interior. In a very good condition.

This book is considered the major work of the classical historian J. B. Bury. It became a standard textbook on the topic of ancient Greek history to the death of Alexander the Great for almost a century. He describes in the preface his decision to limit the extent of his history: compression into a single volume often produces a more useful book. This magisterial and very readable synthesis of political and military history encompasses nearly three millennia and the whole of the Mediterranean and Near East.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Useful and rare.