The Student's Ancient HISTORY of the East: from the earliest times to the conquest of Alexander the Great. Including Egypt, Assyria, Media, Persia, Asia Minor and Phoenicia. By Philip Smith, B.A. Illustrated by engravings on wood 1st edition Published by John Murray, 1871
Dark brown embossed with gilt medallion and lettering on the spine. Binding is worn and cracking along the spine and front joint. Edges have self wear Page edges are dyed red. Front hinge is cracking but is in tact. Back hinge and joint are in good shape. Very minor pencil marks on fly leaf and a previous owners stamp on front free endpaper. Many black and white cut illustrations throughout and a black and white frontispiece. All in good condition. Text block is secure and pages are in very good condition for the books age. It looks like ti was very seldom used.
Pages are all in fair to good condition. There’re several pages with penciled underlining. Contains several cut illustrations and maps throughout. See Photos.
