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

Chicago: Western Publishing House, 1883. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Minor wear to corners, a couple light spots on boards. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1883 Half-Leather. xiv, 15-944 pp. 8vo. Original half leather, brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, marbled page ridges, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, engraved plates and inset illustrations throughout text. An overview of ancient life, with chapters on Pompeii, Troy, Nineveh and Babylon, the Bible, and treating subjects such as the Coliseum, musical instruments, domestic utensils, agriculture, painting and sculpture, literature, and funerary practices.