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Two Audio Cassette Tapes complete with case: Running time: 2 Hours. "...Explores the phenomenon of the human-animal bond and provides compelling evidence of the psychological, spiritual , and scientific roles animals play in our lives." - from cover. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Sound working copy. Book
Revised expanded edition. VG pbk. ISBN 0862722969. Illustrators Mike Atkinson and John Francis. (Kingfisher explorer books).16908. eng
1937017276Manchester University Press 1937. Illustrated with eight plates octavo pp xiv 209 endpapers slightly marked otherwise very clean internally red cloth slightly dull and very slightly worn in a dustwrapper which is slightly worn frayed and age-toned. Deadly combat between gladiators is perhaps the best-known example of public entertainment offered in the Roman world. Wild and domesticated animals were also a part of these extravagant shows and the elaborate presentationor sometimes butcheryof creatures to gild an official's magnificence was among the most common forms of public diversion. Pitting bulls against bears lions against Christians and criminals elephants against rhinoceroses or parading large numbers of giraffe or zebras the games devised by the Romans ranged from astonishing to brutally cruel. It is now difficult to comprehend the pleasure that huge crowds took from the death or struggle of animals and people but the history of the role of animals in ancient Rome is both fascinating and important in view of modern sports spectacles and the enjoyment we take in animals in our daily lives. Based entirely on primary source material and infused with the author's direct experience with many of the animals discussed Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome is a comprehensive investigation of the rise function and pageantry of wild and domesticated animals as household pets and as fodder for entertainment in the Roman world. Extending from Egypt through the Greek city-states to the magnificent coliseums of the golden age of Roman civilization Jennison provides an absorbing evocative and in-depth history that includes information about what animals were known to the Romans which creatures they liked best which animals were used as pets from what places they obtained animals and how much they cost how they were trapped and the architectural development and dispersion of arenas throughout the Roman world. The authoritative work on the subject. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn. Manchester University Press Hardcover
Gift inscription ot half-title: "For Mother, with love from one of the authors XO". Inner hinges a bit weak. Spine a bit slanted. ; 9.0 X 8.3 X 0.7 inches; 207 pages
Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Edgewear to DJ. ; 10.1 X 7.9 X 1.0 inches; 180 pages
21410SUFFOLK, Antique Collectors Club - 1988 - Grand in-4 - Reliure éditeur - 2 è, " è Plats & Gardes ornées - Très importante iconographie - 424 pages - Très propre
VG pbk reprint. Co-Authors, Vassili Papastavrou, Malcolm Penney, Ian Redmond, Helen Riley and Gillian Standring. ISBN 0749805196. 21383. eng
1978030546Cambridge 1978 D S Brewer Hardcover Very Good 1st Edition
LAN094C20GAR1996 / 431 pages. Broché. Editions The Johns Hopkins University Press.
1988100086892ROB 1988 in4. 1988. Broché.
Very faint shelfwear else fine. ; The ancient Greeks and Romans lived in a world teeming with animals. Animals were integral to ancient commerce, war, love, literature and art. Inside the city they were found as pets, pests, and parasites. They could be sacred, sacrificed, liminal, workers, or intruders from the wild. Beyond the city domesticated animals were herded and bred for profit and wild animals were hunted for pleasure and gain alike. Specialists like Aristotle, Aelian, Pliny and Seneca studied their anatomy and behavior. Geographers and travelers described new lands in terms of their animals. Animals are to be seen on every possible artistic medium, woven into cloth and inlaid into furniture. They are the subject of proverbs, oaths and dreams. Magicians, physicians and lovers turned to animals and their parts for their crafts. They paraded before kings, inhabited palaces, and entertained the poor in the arena. Quite literally, animals pervaded the ancient world from A-Z. In entries ranging from short to long, Kenneth Kitchell offers insight into this commonly overlooked world, covering representative and intriguing examples of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Familiar animals such as the cow, dog, fox and donkey are treated along with more exotic animals such as the babirussa, pangolin, and dugong. The evidence adduced ranges from Minoan times to the Late Roman Empire and is taken from archaeology, ancient authors, inscriptions, papyri, coins, mosaics and all other artistic media. Whenever possible reasoned identifications are given for ancient animal names and the realities behind animal lore are brought forth. Why did the ancients think hippopotamuses practiced blood letting on themselves? How do you catch a monkey? Why were hyenas thought to be hermaphroditic? Was there really a vampire moth? Entries are accompanied by full citations to ancient authors and an extensive bibliography.; 9.5 X 6.4 X 0.8 inches; 288 pages
LAN088C20GAR2000 / 206 pages. Broché. Editions Routledge.
Light rubbing to spine ends. Binding not tight; Numerous beautiful photographures; 8vo; 224 pages
unp., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
13119Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, unbekannt. Originalausgabe 95 Seiten , 22 cm, Pappeinband
163p. + Plus frontis and full page photographs by Hedda Walther. 8vo. Original full brown cloth binding. Binding and text very dampstained. Inked ownership. First American Edition. NH 6
Uncorrected advance proof, 316 pages, translated from the French by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. eng
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards with gilt title and decoration on cover. Top and bottom of spine are worn down. 7 5/8"w x 10 1/4"h. 50 pages. Black and white illustrations by Paul Bransom.
200701743Nairobi, D.A. hawkins LTD, 1966 ; in-12, 224 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
Paperback - Puffin Picture Book no. 7. Undated, not published in 1900. With colour and B&W illustrations. Covers are tatty: creased and worn, with nicks and a few longer tears - most notably at spine foot - affecting pages within. Two central pages are detached from stapled binding but present. Pages are slightly toned; all content is clear. TS Used
12mo, 22 pages, illustrated in colourand black and white by Tom Kerr. (A Do you know book) eng
Small folio in light green boards with pasted down color illustration and gilt titles and decoration; color illus.; 62 p., 31 cm. Series: The How Book Series; The Haggis-On-Whey World of Unbelieveable Brillance Volume 3, No. 164 of 307; Abstract: "Shares humorous misinformation about marine animals, including the duties of squid appendages, what water does on weekends, shark religion, and the kind of music that giant squids listen to on the train."
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; original green pictorial boards, upper board blocked in black, blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed (without major loss) at head and tail of backstrip. Uncommon in this condition.
2001LFA01a9fUn ouvrage de 379 pages, format 220 x 265 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, publié en 2001, Editions L'Aventurine, collection "Bibliothèque de l'Ornement", bon état
Illustrated, book and TV reviews, includes articles on Falcons at Lossiemouth and on Otters observed. eng
