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Description : Title: The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians, Including a History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients. Author: Charles Rollin - Charles Rollin was a French historian and educator. He was born in Paris. In 1694 he was rector of the University of Paris, rendering great service among other things by reviving the study of Greek. He held that post for two years instead of one, and in 1699 was appointed principal of the Collège de Beauvais. Rollin held Jansenist principles, and even went so far as to defend the miracles supposed to be worked at the tomb of François de Paris, commonly known as Deacon Paris. Unfortunately his religious opinions deprived him of his appointments and disqualified him for the rectorship, to which in 1719 he had been re-elected. It is said that the same reason prevented his election to the Academie francaise, though he was a member of the Academie des Inscriptions. Shortly before his death he protested publicly against the acceptance of the bull Unigenitus. Rollin's literary work dates chiefly from the later years of his life, when he had been forbidden to teach. His once famous Ancient History (Paris, 1730-38), and the less generally read Roman History, which followed it, were avowed compilations, uncritical and somewhat inaccurate. But they instructed and interested, generation after generation. A more original and really important work was his Traite des etudes (Paris, 1726-31). It contains a summary of what was even then a reformed and innovative system of education, including a more frequent and extensive use of the vulgar tongue, and discarded the medieval traditions that had lingered in France., James Bell Publisher: Published by Harper & Brothers City: New York Year: 1839 Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes Width: 6.75 Height: 10 Book Details: From the preface of the Publishers of the Glasgow Edition of 1832: The publishers venture to say this is the only entire and unmutilated edition of Rollin's History in English, which has issued from the press for more than eighty years: indeed they are not aware that any other unmutilated edition was ever printed in Bitain, except the first English edition published in 1738 by J.& P. Knapton, London. This antique set is bound in full leather, with red and black leather labels and gilt lettering on the spine. The volumes are adorned with marbled text blocks and engraved title pages. Condition / Notes: These volumes display external wear, with rubbing and scuffing. The hinges of both volumes are cracking. The marbled page edges are slightly faded. The interiors display foxing. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $8.50
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