Niccolo Machiavelli (author)
A 4 volume set of Machiavelli’s writings.
Titus Livius (Livy) (author)
Livy’s History of Rome begins with its founding and continues up to the reign of Augustus.
Edward Gibbon (author)
A 12 volume set of Gibbon’s magisterial history of the end of the Roman Empire, one of the greatest works of history written during the Enlightenment.
Suetonius Tranquillus (author)
Suetonius’ most famous work of the lives of the 12 Caesars along with his shorter biographies of famous grammarians, rheoticians and poets.
Henry Cust (introduction)
A two volume collection of inlfuential English translations of the writings of Machiavelli during the Tudor period.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (author)
Thomas Gordon’s translation of Sallust’s histories with Gordon’s lengthy commentaries and his translation of Cicero’s Four Orations against Catiline, and other speeches. This copy was owned by John Adams and has his name on the title… more
