SOUVENIR Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION IN DJ SIGNED.. SOUVENIR [US]

Doubleday. Collectible - Very Good. WITH SIGNED LABEL! NY: Doubleday 1963. 1st edition, 1st or early printing. E38 gutter code on pg 408. Hardcover 8vo 408 pgs. B/w plates and illustrations. De Camp signed label affixed on title pg under author name, label also has his typed name. Very good to near fine in a near very good dust jacket. Light wear to spine heel. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is lightly edgeworn, chipped and has small edge tears. Jacket toned and/or foxed on flap folds and spine. (Engineering, History) Inquire if you need further information. Doubleday [US]

Ballantine. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Ballantine ISBN 0345237838 9780345237835 [US]

Ballantine Books, Date: 1995-01-03. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1995. Ballantine Books ISBN 0345482875 9780345482877 [US]

Mass Market Paperback. New. ISBN 0345237838 9780345237835 [US]

ISBN10: 0880294566, ISBN13: 9780880294560, [publisher: Barnes & Noble Inc] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. Satisfaction Guaranteed! Fast Customer Service!!
[Suffolk, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1990]
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New York: Dorset Press [0-88029-456-6] [1990]. (Hardcover) 408pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. There is a previous owner's inscription. (Applied Science, Engineering, Engineers, Inventions, Technology). Dorset Press ISBN 0880294566 9780880294560 [CA]

Adelaide; Rigby Limited; 1963.. First Australian Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 408; 16 pages of b/w. photographic plates, several b/w. text illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket chipped on edges, very good copy Adelaide; Rigby Limited; 1963. [AU]

Ballantine Books, Date: 1960-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good, some creasing. * Ballantine Books ISBN 0345257774 9780345257772 [US]

Barnes & Noble, Date: 1993. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Hardback edition, 1993, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine, unread condition (in protective wrapper). Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. 1993. Barnes & Noble ISBN 0880294566 9780880294560 [GB]

ISBN10: 0345257774, ISBN13: 9780345257772, [publisher: Ballantine Books] Softcover Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good, some creasing. *
[Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1960]

ISBN10: 0345482875, ISBN13: 9780345482877, [publisher: Random House Publishing Group] Softcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1995]
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Paperback / softback. New. ISBN 0345482875 9780345482877 [GB]

Adelaide: Rigby, Date: 1963. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo.. hardback with dust jacket 408pp., b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., index, Nice copy 1963. Rigby [AU]

ISBN10: 0345482875, ISBN13: 9780345482877, [publisher: Ballantine Books] Softcover Book is in NEW condition. Satisfaction Guaranteed! Fast Customer Service!!
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Ballantine Books, Date: 1995-01-03. Paperback. Used:Good. 1995. Ballantine Books ISBN 0345482875 9780345482877 [US]

Norwalk: Burndy Library, Date: 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good + DJ. 408 Pp. Orange-Brown Cloth, Gilt, Stamped In Blue And Black. Book Fine, No Wear Or Marks; Dj Very Good +, Slight Rubbing, 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel. With A Laid In Generic Presentation Slip From Bern Dibner On Burndy Library Letterhead, Dated January 19, 1966. 1966. Burndy Library [US]

ISBN10: 0880294566, ISBN13: 9780880294560, [publisher: Barnes and Noble Books] Hardcover
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1990]

Ballantine Books. New. Special order direct from the distributor Ballantine Books ISBN 0345482875 9780345482877 [CA]

ISBN10: 0880294566, ISBN13: 9780880294560, [publisher: New York : Dorset] Hardcover 408 p., plates. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - From the dawn of history to the rise of the scientific method in the 16th and 17th centuries, invention and technology advanced with painful slowness. The reason was not that men were stupid during thousands of years—it was the fact that most people were simply too busy trying to keep alive. The imagination and daring that every innovator must have were limited to a tiny group. It is about these brave men—whose genius enabled the Egyptians to build their pyramids, the Phoenicians to cross the stormy seas, the Romans to erect magnificent public buildings—that this carefully researched and fascinatingly written account of the advance of early technology has been written. Mr. de Camp describes the methods used by early irrigators, architects, and military engineers to build and maintain structures to serve their ruler’s wants. He tells, for example, how the Pharaohs erected obelisks and pyramids, how Nebuchadrezzar fortified Babylon, how Dionysios’ ordnance department invented the catapult, how the Chinese built the Great Wall, and how the Romans fashioned their roads, baths, sewers, and aqueducts. He recounts many ...
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Ballantine Books, Date: 1995-01-03. Paperback. Like New. 1995. Ballantine Books ISBN 0345482875 9780345482877 [US]

Dorset Press, Date: 1990-01-01. Hardcover. Used:Good. 1990. Dorset Press ISBN 0880294566 9780880294560 [US]

New York Barnes and Noble 1993 Hardcover As new in As new jacket NY: Barnes and Noble Books, c1993. 408pp., index, bibliography, black and white illustrations. 8vo. As new unread hardcover, as new d/j.

NY: Dorset Press, Date: 1963. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 408pp, illustrated. Near Fine. Dorset Press ISBN 0880294566 9780880294560 [US]

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., Date: 1963. 8vo. 408 pp. Numerous illusts. Beige cloth, red & black lettering on spine, w/ d.j. (1 small closed tear head of spine, slight shelfwear), NF/VG copy, from the library of William MacDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership markings on front pastedown. Early printing of this classic work by the famed science fiction author and engineer, providing a fascinating account of pyramids, aqueducts, catapults, fortifications, ships, and technology from the ancient world to the Renaissance. 1963. Doubleday & Co., Inc., [US]