Agricultural Implements of the Roman World

Full red cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, 10" tall, 232 pp., illustrated with sketches and photographic plates. Dust jacket clipped at bottom corner of front flap, though price intact on top corner, mild soiling and wear, book itself has no flaws to note.

From Publisher:

Most of the inhabitants of the Roman world lived by farming. The kinds of farming they practised varied as Roman domination spread north of the Alps. This book deals with the tools they used, in all their variety, and with the way they used them. It describes in detail agricultural implements, both simple and complex, from shovels, spades, saws and sickles to ploughs, harrows and reaping machines. Each description carries full references to the sources of information, including allusions in literature and the evidence of monuments and mosaics. The book ends with a catalogue raisonne of the implements illustrated in the text. The author uses practical knowledge of agriculture, as well as learning, to identify and interpret the objects under examination; this is, literally, scholarship brought down to earth.

Product Info

ISBN: 0521069122

ISBN-13: 9780521069120

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 1967

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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