Zenobia : or The Fall Of Palmyra :; A historical romance in letters of L Manlius Piso from Palmyra to his friend Marcus Curtius at Rome
New York: C S Francis & Co, 1850.
Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #17324
Edges rubbed, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Two volumes bound as one, complete. Chagrin binding with five compartment spine and gilt title. Popular nineteenth-century historical romance of third-century warrior-queen Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire, who conquered much of the Roman Asia Minor including Egypt, but was defeated and captured by Emperor Aurelian in 272. "A series of letters written from Palmyra by a Roman, and depicting in an imaginative manner the spendours of the desert city and its overthrow by Aurelian. A good historical picture of the life and manners of the early 3rd century when Paganism and Christianity were at war." - Ernest A Baker; A Guide to Historical Fiction; page 399.; Francis & Co's Cabinet Library of Choice Prose and Poetry; 271, 288 pages.
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