A delightful discovery this week. Cambridge University Press have released the 3rd edition of the Cambridge Ancient History online at Archive.org! All 19 volumes! It’s here.
Those red-clad volumes were £40 each back in 1979. I used to save up birthday money to buy a volume. I still have them. They were never as exciting as I wished they would be. The 3rd edition was still coming out then.
Via Guy Chamberland.
Hmmm… This tweet asked the question that came to my mind:
https://twitter.com/gurkan_ergin/status/921142646231445505
Uploaded by a private user … who seems also to have provided a set of the Cambridge Modern History
https://archive.org/details/iB_CMH
among many other things. Not so sure about this.
If so it will swiftly be removed. Archive.org are hot on this sort of thing.
What an unlooked-for bonanza! Thank you very much!
Thanks for the heads up, Roger. I downloaded the whole set in pdf and Kindle.
Thanks, Roger, this is a very nice find.
And I ran into a PDF in searching for info on Joseph Bryennius (trying to find out manuscript information about his use of the heaven witnesses.) Then I found this announcement.
Glad to help!
The volume 4 in the archive.org set is damaged – it is missing chapters 1, 2 and 3a. If someone could find me a pdf of this volume that adds in the missing chapters I’d be grateful.