The Dawn of Civilization to American Civilization

Piggott, Stuart and others edit

Verlag: Thames and Hudson. First English editions 1961-1972, London, 1961

Beschreibung

Eight volumes: 'The Dawn of Civilization', The Birth of Western Civilization', 'The Age of the Renaissance', 'The Age of Expansion', 'The Eighteenth Century', 'The Nineteenth Century', 'The Twentieth Century' and 'American Civilisation'; monumental Cold War version of history where progress is mapped from the Stone Age, via the Middle East, the Classical World through the European centuries and on to America; each volume has a separate editor, between 9 and 14 contributors, overall 90 contributors, with, for a distinctly different experience to an online search, 5,400 illustrations, 1,520 in colour, 3,800 photographs, engravings, drawings and maps, and, for vol.1, 110 original reconstructions. Original blue cloth stamped in gold. All fine. No dustwrappers. The eight volumes. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 51110

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Dawn of Civilization to American ...

Verlag: Thames and Hudson. First English editions 1961-1972, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1961

Einband: Hardcover/Hardback

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: First Edition.

Art des Buches: book