About this title: `The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an `immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and the most lively images'. Its author, Cornelius Tacitus, widely acknowledged as the ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics, London
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140441505ISBN:0140441506
Description: Good. 336 p. Introduction by Kenneth Wellesley. Also includes Bibliography, Key to Technical Terms, Key to Place-Names, Index of Personal Names, and Maps. read more
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Description: Good. Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket not necessarily included minimal wear to binding, majority of pages undamaged, minimal to no highlighting/underlining of text, no missing p. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1998-06-16
ISBN-13:9780140441505ISBN:0140441506
Description: Good. Save some $$$. Perfectly Good Reading Copy. Shelfwear from storage in box with other books. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Edition: 6th Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780192839589ISBN:0192839586
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight/covers creased; moderate edge wear/ corners, spine and spine hinge creased/ several pages have underlining/ several pages and page tips creased. read more
Edition: Reprinted, with Revisions
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140441505ISBN:0140441506
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 336 pp., maps, biblio., index; 18 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "AD 69, the year following Nero's suicide and marking the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome, was one of the most dramatic and dangerous in the city's history. In the surviving books of his Histories, the great barrister-historian Tacitus gives a gripping account of the 'long but single year' that saw the reigns of four emperors: disciplinarian Galba; conspirator and dandy Otho; ... read more
Description: Fair. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. M4-Book is lightly wrinkled, soiled, discoloration mostly on the top and bottom page edges and cover, and shelf wear. In the surviving books of The Histories, the great Roman historian, Tacitus, writing some thirty year after the events, reconstructs the anarchy of A. D. 69, 'that long but single year, ' during which the Emperors Galba, Otho, and Vitellius briefly held power and the Emperor Vespasian established a new dynasty. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press/ Penguin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1964
ISBN-13:9780140441505ISBN:0140441506
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, "used" stamped on bottome edge, prices inked out, price stickers rear cover, "used" sticker on spine, scattered underlining and margin notes to text and endpapers, and other moderate to heavy shopwear. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, NY
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780192831583ISBN:0192831585
Description: Very Good- 0192831585. Small dampstain to front endpaper, and worn covers. Otherwise a crisp copy. Translated by W. H. Fyfe, and revised and edited by D. S. Levene.; World's Classics; 0.6 x 7.31 x 4.5 Inches; 360 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2001-03-08
ISBN-13:9780192839589ISBN:0192839586
Description: New. New book-pages are clean and unmarked. Softcover binding is secure. Cover is in good shape. Orders packed carefully and shipped daily with tracking # emailed to you. read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. 1st printing w/ full 10 numberline. Excellent condition. Appears unread. No marks/underlines/highlights. Pages are clean and tight. Small crease on back cover. Minor shelfwear. Free deliver confirmation. Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-07-15
ISBN-13:9780199540709ISBN:0199540705
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780199540709. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. PAPERBACK. 1964 edition. Contents yellowed. Clean and sound with some reading wear. Over twenty years selling secondhand books. read more
"Published approximately 105 A.D., The Histories recounts the turmoil in the Roman Empire after the death of Nero, the first year of which was the Year of the Four Emperors. Murder and suicide end the Emperors' lives as civil war follows Nero's death without a recognized heir. Vespasian, known to history as the general who defeated the last Jewish attempt to revolt and reestablish independence and who also participated early in his career in the conquest of Britain."
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