A History of All Nations

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The original volumes, when published, comprised the best popular history of Classical Antiquity in Germany. This English language edition consists of 24 volumes: five on antiquity, five on The Middle Ages, ten on the Modern History of the Old World, three on the Americas and one single index-volume to the whole. 'Armorial edition', number 27 of 90 impressions; 24 vols, 4to (280 x 200 mm); each volume consists of several illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, plates, including colour, text illustrations and portraits, some folded, Egypt and Western Asia in antiquity (vol. I, XXIX plates), Central and Eastern Asia in antiquity (vol. II, XXIV plates), Ancient Greece (vol. III, XXI plates), Republican Rome (vol. IV, XV plates), Imperial Rome (vol. V, XX plates), The great migrations (vol. VI, ), The early Middle Ages (vol. VII, XX plates ), The age of Charlemagne (vol. VIII, XVIII plates), The age of Feudalism and Theocracy (vol. IX, XVI plates), The age of Renaissance (vol. X, XXXII plates), The age of the Reformation (vol. XI, XXVIII plates), The religious wars (vol. XII, XXIV plates), The age of Louis XVI (vol. XIII, XXVI plates), The age of the European balance of power (vol. XIV, XXV plates), The age of Frederick the Great (vol. XV, XXIII plates); The French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon (vol. XVI, XXV plates ), The Napoleonic empire (vol. XVII, XX plates); Restoration and revolution (vol. XVIII, XXVI plates), The reconstruction of Europe (vol. XIX, XXIV plates), Cont

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