The Great Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600

by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos, Hélène Ahrweiler, Timothy Cullen, preface, trans

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New Castle & London: Oak Knoll Press & the British Library, 2000. Folio 34cm . Red cloth, gilt titles; vi ,xvi,563, 3 pp; color plates. A straight copy, clean apart from spotting to top edge: Very Good. Jacket largely clean with one or two tiny scuffs and marks: Very Good. One of 2000 copies printed. A study of the development of books and libraries, chiefly in the Mediterranean region, from the time when

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