THE PARTHIANS

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Brown top-stain. Illustrated with 76 black and white photographs, 46 line drawings, 2 maps and a table. A fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents with some very slight toning to the endpapers are otherwise clean and crisp throughout and remain free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (42s to the front flap). An excellent copy.

A key early work by the British archaeologist and leading authority on the history and art of Palmyra, Malcolm Colledge (1939-2015). Volume 59 in the monumental 'Ancient Peoples and Places' series.