- Octavo, black cloth titled in red on the spine & in blind on the front cover. The binding is rubbed & bumped. xi & 417 pages. There is an owner's book label on the front pastedown & an ink name on the front endpaper. There is a small area of offsetting to 2 pages of the prelims. There are pencil underlinings in the text. 4 color plates, including a frontispiece with a printed tissue guard, full-page & double-page color maps & full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. Good.

Later printing.

HISTORY; ANCIENT WORLD; JAMES HENRY BREASTED; EGYPT; BABYLONIA; ASSYRIA; CHALDEA; PERSIANS; HEBREWS; GREEK; ROMANS; ROMAN EMPIRE; ILLUSTRATIONS; PLATES; MAPS.