Books and readers - Libraries - Histories, Catalogues - Ancient World

Lot Comprises:

James Westfall Thompson, Ancient Libraries, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1940, 8vo., publisher's beige cloth

Lionel Casson, Libraries in the Ancient World, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2001, 8vo., publisher's cloth with dust jacket

Olof Pedersén, Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East 1500‐300 B.C., Bethesda, CDL Press, 1998, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers

Clarence Eugene Boyd, Public Libraries and Literary Culture in Ancient Rome, (Chicago 1915), reprint Mansfield Center, CT, Martino Publishing, 2005, 4to., publisher's brick colored cloth

Charles Lemuel Nichols, The library of Rameses the Great: paper read at a meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes… Boston, April 15, 1908, Berkeley, Peacock Press, 1964, 8vo., publisher's printed brown wrapper

Rudolph Blum, Kallimachos: the Alexandrian Library and the origins of bibliography (translated by Hans H. Wellisch), Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Mostafa El-Abbadi & Omnia Mounir Fathallah, ed., What happened to the ancient Library of Alexandria?, Leiden, Brill, 2008, 4to., publisher's printed boards

Luciano Canfora, The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World [translation of La biblioteca scomparsa, published Palermo, 1987], London, 1989, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket

Edward Alexander Parsons, The Alexandrian Library, glory of the Hellenic world: its rise, antiquities, and destructions, Amsterdam, London & New York, Elsevier Press, 1952, 4to., publisher's blue cloth

Library of Caesarea Maritima

Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea, Cambridge & London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket

Phanarion

Konstatinos Staikos, The library of the Oecumenical Patriarchate in the Phanar, Athens, [printed and bound at Lithographic Press of P.T. Ballidis] 1994, 4to., publisher's red paper boards

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