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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3494480, member: 85693&quot;]Over the past few years I have assembled a large, random collection of books on ancient history, culture, art and literature, courtesy my local public library, which is committing institutional suicide by purging their impressive collection.&nbsp; Twenty-five cents each, five for a dollar.&nbsp; Contemporary stuff, and old stuff.&nbsp; Here is a recent one -</p><p><br /></p><p>Theodore Ayrault Dodge<i>, Great Captains,</i> <i>Cæsar: a history of the art of war among the Romans down to the end of the Roman Empire, with a detailed account of the campaigns of Caius Julius Cæsar. With 258 charts, maps, plans of battles and tactical manœuvres, cuts of armor, weapons, and engines.</i>(Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893). </p><p><br /></p><p>I thought it would be one of those out-of-date tomes, fun to look through, but from what I saw on line this is kind of a classic - Dodge was a Union veteran who lost a leg at Gettysburg, so he knows his way around a battlefield.&nbsp; My copy is original 1893 printing, loaded with maps, etc.&nbsp; Not bad for a quarter, but I am sad to see it leave the local library collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]925438[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]925439[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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