A Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps 1828 Henry L. Wickham

Title: A Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps

Author: Henry L. [Lewis] Wickham and the Rev. J. A. [John Antony] Cramer

Description: Second Edition, 1828. Quarter brown leather with papered boards and new endpapers. Folding map opposite title page (with tear); three illustrated plates, including two maps, at rear. Errata list precedes table-of-contents. 8vo. pp. xxviii, 235.

A study of route taken by Hannibal in his crossing of the Alps during the Second Punic War. The authors evaluate the work of Polybius, Livy, De Luc, M. Letronne, Folard, St. Simon, D'Anville, Whitaker, Larauza, Napoleon, and others. The second edition includes a few additions and corrections, but is otherwise material the same of the first edition of 1820. The authors made expeditions in 1821 and 1823 to thoroughly examine the route (as discussed in the introduction to the second edition).

John Antony Cramer (1793-1848), Oxford, was principal of New Inn Hall (later merged into Balliol College), 1831-1847, and the Regius Professor of Modern History, 1842-1848. His cousin, Henry Lewis Wickham (1789-1864), was the son of the spymaster William Wickham.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: G. B. Whittaker
Place: London
Year: 1828

Keywords: Second Punic War, Carthaginian army,