Product Description: In this 1914 book, celebrated classicist Harold Mattingly provides a carefully selected yet wide-ranging history of the ancient world, from the Babylonians to the decline of the Western Roman Empire. Illustrated with thirty-five plates of ancient coins and sculptures as well as twelve maps, this text remains a useful overview of ancient history and literature for beginners and experts alike...read more

Product Description: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact...read more

Product Description: 1980 Reprint of the original 1927 version. A Guide to Republican & Imperial Roman Coins in the British Museum by Harold Mattingly. This guide describes the series of Roman coins exhibited in electrotype in cases 9 to 16 in the Exhibition Room of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum...read more