Ave Roma Immortalis: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome-Fast Shipping

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Title: Ave Roma Immortalis: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome

Author: Francis Marion Crawford

Publisher: The Macmillan Company, London

Published: 1911

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Number of Pages: 623

Catalogs: European History, Italy, Vintage Travel

: Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece map of Rome and an appendix with the coats of arms of noble houses. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering and black, blue, white, and green illustration on front board. Page top-edge is gilded, fore- and bottom-edges deckled. Some evidence of dampstain to pages at hinges. Inner hinges at pastedown and flyleaf are superficially split. Pages are only lightly tanned with no marginalia. A history of Rome by region, including St. Peter’s and the Vatican, with appendices of event dates, popes and emperors. Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was mainly a novelist, including tales of the supernatural, but also wrote several historical works, including this one. New 1911 edition; first edition published in 1898. Hardcover, acceptable condition, dampstained. 623 pages plus publisher’s list, octavo.