ANCIENT EMPIRES_PERSIA_NINEVEH_BABYLON_ROME_EGYPT_ARCHAEOLOGY RUINS_SOLD ,900

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Title
:
MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITY- A Description of Ancient Life: The Employments, Amusements, Customs and Habits, The Cities, Palaces, Monuments and Tombs, The Literature and Fine Arts of 3,000 Years Ago.
Author
:
L.W. Yaggy & T.L. Haines
Published
:
NY, Standard Publishing House
-
1882
Binding:
Deluxe full leather tooled binding with gilt lettering & decorations, marbled endpapers with ribbon edging / all
page edges in gilt
as well. This one is a dark brown, almost black color.
size:
apx
9.5" x 7"
w/
944 pages
apx
173 illustrations- & 8 steel engravings
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he does state in the listing he
sold one for
,900
[
I sold a copy to the auction looser for
,000
!
]
Contents:
Pompeii, Nineveh, Babylon, Rome, Egypt,
Greece,
Troy and so much more!
POMPEII:
The Glory of the City / Destruction /  Excavation /  Entering Pompeii / The Streets of the City / The Theatres of Pompeii / Villa of Julia Felix / Pavements and Sidewalks / Arrangement of Private House / Elegance of Domestic Architecture / Ground Plan of Roman House / Exterior Apartments / Interior Apartments / Dining Halls / The Triclinium / Materials and Construction / The Salve Lucru / Paintings and Decorations / The Drunken Hercules / Wall Decoration / The Peristyle / The House of Siricus / Political Inscriptions / Electioneering Advertisements / The Graffiti / Street of the Lupanar / 80 Loaves of Bread Found / The House of the Balcony / Human Bodies Preserved / Discovered Bodies / House of Diomedes / Location of the Villa / Ground Plan of the Villa / Detail of Ground Plan / The Caldarium / Galleries and Halls / Porticoes and Terraces / Tomb and Family Sepulchre / The Villa Destroyed / Conclusive Evidence / Jewels and Ornaments / Pliny's Account of a Roman Garden / Stores and Eating Houses / Restaurant / Pompeian Bill of Fare / Circe, Daughter of the Sun / Houses of Pansa and Sallust / Curious Religious Painting / General View of House / Worship of the Lares / Domesticated Serpents / Discoveries Confirm Ancient Authors / Ornamentation and Draperies / Remarkable Mansions / House of the Vestals /
Surgical
& other Instruments / Shop of an Apothecary / House of Holconius / Decorations of the Bed-Chambers / Perseus and Andromeda / Epigraphs and Inscriptions / Ariadne Discovered by Bacchus / General Survey of the City / Wine Merchant's Sign / Sculptor's Laboratory / House of Emperor Joseph II
AMUSEMENTS:
The
Amphitheater
/ Coliseum / 84,000 Seats / The Bloody Entertainments / Examining the Wounded / Theatres / Roman Baths / Description of the Baths / Cold Baths / Warm Chambers / The Vapor Baths / Hot-Air Baths / Social Games and Sports / Domestic Games / Jugglers / Game of Cities / Gymnastic Arts / Social Entertainments / Characteristics of the Dance /Grace and Dress of the Dancers / Position at the Table / Vases and Ornaments / Food and Vegetables / Mode of Eating / Reminders of Mortality / Egyptian Music and Entertainments / Musical Instruments / Jewish Music /
Beer, Palm Wine
, Etc / Games and Sports of the Egyptians / Games With Dice / Games of Ball / Wrestling / Intellectual Capabilities / Hunting
DOMESTIC LIFE:
Occupation of Women / Bathing / Wedding Ceremonies / Children's Toys / Writing Materials / Families, Schools, and Marriages / Duties of Children /
Dress, Toilet, and Jewelry
/ The Chiton / Dress Materials / Styles of Wearing Hair / Head-Dress of Women / Hair-Pins / Sunshades / Crimes and Punishments; Contracts, Deeds, Etc. / Punishments / Laws Respecting Debt / Contracts /
Superstition
/ Cure of Diseases / Houses, Villas, Farmyards, Orchards, Gardens, Etc. / Character of the People / Construction of Houses / Plans of Villas / Irrigation / Gardens / Egyptian Wealth / Gold and Silver / Worth of Gold / Treasures / Total Value of Gold
DOMESTIC UTENSILS:
Writing Materials / Literature / Curious Lamps / The Candelabrum / Candelabra / Oil Lamps / The Steel yard / Drinking Vessels / Colored Glass / Glass / Glass Vessels / Articles of Jewelry / Toilet Boxes, etc / Furniture / Chairs and Stools / Bed-room Furniture / Tables, etc / Pottery / Drawings on Vases / Vases/  Greek Vases / Inscriptions on Vases /  Historical Subjects on Vases / Uses of Vases / Vases Found in Tombs / Silver Vessels / Decorated Vases [
lots of vase pictures in the book
]
EMPLOYMENT:
Colored Glass Vessels / Imitation Jewels / Potters / Carpenter's Tools / Professions / Husbandry / Rise of the Nile / Agricultural Implements / Agriculture / Baking, Dyeing, and Painting / Flour Mills / Bread-Baking / Dyeing / Scouring and Dyeing / Coloring Substances / Mineral Used for Dyeing / Cost of Dyeing / Cloth Manufacture /
Persian Costumes
TROY:
Ruins at Hissarlik / Settlement of Troy / First Settlers / Scaean Gate / Call of Menelaus / Houses at Troy / Objects Found in Houses / Silver Vases / Taking out the Treasure / Shield of the Treasure / Contents of the Treasure / Ear-Rings and Chains / Gold Buttons, Studs, Etc. / Silver Goblet and Vases /
Weapons of Troy
/ Terra- Cotta Mugs / Condition of the Roads / Lack of Inscriptions
NINEVEH AND BABYLON:
Explorations of Niebuhr and Rich / Excavations at Kouyunjik Palace / Sennacherib's Conquests /Highly-Finished Sculptures / North Palace, Kouyunjik / Temple of Solomon / The Oracle / Description of the Palace / Modern Houses of Persia / Chambers in the Palace / The Walls / Grandeur of Babylon / Building Materials / History of Babylon / Karnac and Baalbec / Stupendous Remains / Temple of Luxor / Chambers of the
Great Pyramid
/ The Great Temple / The Pantheon at Rome / Egyptian Obelisks / Obelisks
RELIGION OR MYTHOLOGY:
Mythology / Mythological Characters / The Pythian Apollo / Phoebus Apollo / Niobe and Leto /Daphne / Kyrene / Hermes / The Sorrow of Demeter / The Sleep of Endymion / Phaethon / Briareos / Dionysus / Pentheus /Asklepios / Ixion / Tantalos / The Toils of Herakles / Admetos / Epimetheus and Pandora / Io and Prometheus / Deukalion / Poseidon and Athene /
Medusa
/ Danae / Perseus / Andromeda / Akrisios / Kephalos and Prokris / Skylla / Phrixos and Helle / Medeia / Theseus / Ariadne / Arethusa / Tyro / Narkissos / Orpheus and Eurydike / Kadmos and Europa / Bellerophon / Althaia and the Burning Brand
FINE ARTS:
Egyptian Sculpture / Etruscan Painting / Renowned Painters / Parrhasius / Colors Used / Sculpture Painting / Fresco Painting / Sculpturing / Sculpture in Greece and Egypt / Sculptures of Ancient Kings / Animal Sculpture / Modeling of the Human Figure / " The Sculptor of the Gods" / Grandeur of Style / Statues /Description of Statues / Work of Lysippus / The Macedonian Age /
Roman Art
/ Copies of Ancient Gods / Mosaic / Mosaic Subjects / Battle Represented in Mosaics / Grandeur of Style
LITERATURE:
Homer / Paris / Achilles / The Vengeance of Odysseus / Sophocles / Herodotus / The Crocodile /Artabanus Dissuades Xerxes / Socrates / Socrates and Aristodemus / Aristophanes / Plato / The Perfect Beauty / Last Hours of Socrates /Demosthenes / Philip and the Athenians / Measures to Resist Philip / Former Athenians Described / Oration on the Crown /Invective against Catiline / Expulsion of Catiline from Rome / The Tyrant Praetor Denounced / Immortality of the Soul / Julius Caesar / The Germans / Battle of Pharsalia / Virgil / Employment of the Bee /
Punishments in Hell
/ Horace / To Licinius /Happiness Founded on Wisdom / The Equality of Man / Plutarch / Proscription of Sylla / Demosthenes and Cicero Compared
TOMBS AND CATACOMBS:
Extent of the Tombs / An Acre and a quarter in a Tomb / Sculpturings / Paintings / Burying According to Rank /
Mummies
/ Mummy Cases and Sarcophagi / Roman Tombs / Inscriptions / The Catacombs / Inscriptions / Catacombs / Christian Inscriptions / Early Inscriptions / Catacombs, nearly 900 miles long / Utensils from the Catacombs / Paintings / S. Calixtus / Lord's Supper
TRUTH OF THE BIBLE:
The Assyrian and Babylonian Discoveries / 1,100 Christian Inscriptions / The use of the Bible for Excavators / Accordance with Ancient Writings / Frieze from the Arch of Titus / No Book produced by Chance / God the Author / Its Great Antiquity / The Pentateuch / Preservation of the Scripture / Its Important Discoveries / Its Peculiar Style / Its Harmony /Its Impartiality / Its Prophecies / Its Important Doctrines / Its Holy Tendency / Its Aims / Its Effects / Its General Reception /
Persecuted but not Persecuting
DUE TO THE PRICE,
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Condition:
Please
view photos carefully
as they are part of the description.
Externally-
BOOK IS IN
VERY GOOD /excellent
[for its age] CONDITION all around. Minimal wear to the leather -zoom in on back cover - it does have some wear -mostly towards the top, I think it
looks a bit worse in my picture
/ very bright gilt page edges, and beautiful marbled end papers. Covers are very secure- some wear to the joints, but only a very small spit [ about 1/3rd of an inch] top front. Some loss to the gilt on the spine, and the spine is a bit dry, mostly towards the top - some leather conditioner should help.
Internally-
inner hinges very good.
Textblock is holding but lightly cracked twice. The
pages are all good and clean with minimal spotting
-saw 1 spot and 10 pages of flower shadows [so 5 slots -pictured the worse one by far]
.
No rips and only 1 wee-tip fold. Says "from Frankie, Dec, 26th 1882" on the ffep -no other writing.
excellent
+
for age -doesn't look like it's been read but a few times!
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