[Ancient Rome]. Group of volumes concerning classical antiquity consisting of Pi…

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[Ancient Rome]. Group of volumes concerning classical antiquity consisting of Pierre Gusman's La villa imperial de Tibur from 1904 with numerous illustrations, Charles Joret's La rose dans l'antiquité, Lemaire's L'origine de la basilique latine, and another volume from the Guelfo-Sitta collection.

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[Ancient Rome]. Group of volumes concerning classical antiquity consisting of Pierre Gusman's La villa imperial de Tibur from 1904 with numerous illustrations, Charles Joret's La rose dans l'antiquité, Lemaire's L'origine de la basilique latine, and another volume from the Guelfo-Sitta collection.

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