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1983rif. 150308New York: Harper 1983. hardcover. very good/very good. Frontis. 447pp. 8vo brown cloth. New York: Harper 1983. Inked name else very good. Harper unknown books
1988rif. 2343979Greece New York: The Greece History Museum Historical Society of Greece N.Y 1988. Stapled Binding. Near Fine. Plastic covers. 1988 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. A history of Greece New York with black-and-white illustrations. The Greece History Museum, Historical Society of Greece, N.Y unknown books
1979rif. 341878Athens: Protoporiake Bibliotheke 1979. 93p. paperback sun-faded along spine interior clean. Protoporiake Bibliotheke unknown books
1999rif. 35118NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0374149208 . Translated from the Greek and adapted by Ted Hughes. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
2004rif. 33186NY: Carroll & Graf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0786713402 . First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Carroll & Graf hardcover books
2000rif. 23365Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 080613237X . First printing. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. . University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
1983rif. 155494New York: Harper & Row 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Front endpaper lightly browned. Harper & Row hardcover books
1996rif. 32723New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0300062605 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Yale University Press hardcover books
2004rif. 35677NY: Basic Books. 2004. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . 046509063X . Basic Books hardcover books
1983rif. 9014829New York: Harper & Row 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket. Harper & Row hardcover books
1983rif. 322404New York: Harper & Row 1983. hardcover. very good/very good. Profusely illustrated. 144 pages. Short slim 4to black cloth dust wrapper faded and dampstained at foot. New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1983. Very good in good dust wrapper. Harper & Row unknown books
1944rif. 69744New York 1944. Paperback. Very Good. American Friends of Greece. Health Centers for Greece. NY: c. 1944. 14 1p. Softcover in original wapper. 27 cm. paperback books
1943rif. 69743New York 1943. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations 16p. Wrapper. Oblong 31 x 23cm. Included plans for rebuilding Canea and Larissa. paperback books
rif. 10411DESIGN IN GREECE 1/1970-2/1971. Athens: N.P. 1971. 4to. Self-wrappers. 290 pages. First edition. An annual periodical of Architecture in Greece with illustrations and texts written in Greek and English. Covers worn else good. unknown books
2002rif. 1403628New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo 420 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is black with white and red print illustration. Dust jacket has slight edge wear. Price unclipped: “$26.00”. Boards quarter bound with red paper to spine and tan paper to boards; slight wear to spine caps. Inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1403628. FP New Rockville Stock. Atlantic Monthly Press hardcover books
1886rif. 317284London: T. Nelson 1886. 44 Illus. and 3 maps. 400pp. 4to. Half modern mottled brown calf leather title label a.e.g. Fine. 44 Illus. and 3 maps. 400pp. 4to. T. Nelson unknown books
1954rif. 69185Kalimpong: printed by Gergan Tharchin at the Tibet "Mirror" Press 1954. First edition issue with 41 not 43 pages of text; 7¼" x 5" pp. 41 1; 2 photographic illustrations on recto and verso of 1 plate; fine in original printed gray wrappers. With the ownership stamp of "C. A. Muses" inside the upper wrapper. Charles Arthur Muses 1919-2000 was a mathematician cyberneticist and esoteric philosopher who wrote articles and books under various pseudonyms. He founded the Lion Path a shamanistic movement. He held unusual and controversial views relating to mathematics physics philosophy and many other fields. See Wikipedia. "From the work of the 3rd Danish expedition to Central Asia." Yakushi P-175 noting only the 43-page issue. printed by G[ergan] Tharchin at the Tibet "Mirror" Press unknown books
1927rif. 208311927. Photo album documenting a multi country group यातà¥à¤°à¤¾ in 1927 records interwar travel across southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean including regions under colonial administration and recent political transition. The album follows a group of travelers moving from France through Italy Greece Turkey British administered Palestine and Egypt capturing urban landmarks archaeological sites and local populations encountered along the route. The sequence provides visual evidence of tourism infrastructure mobility and cross cultural observation during a period when former imperial territories such as Constantinople were undergoing redefinition following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of modern nation states. Album contains 93 black and white silver gelatin photographs and four real photo postcards with images ranging approximately from 2.5 x 4 inches to 3.5 x 5.5 inches and one larger group photograph measuring about 9 x 7 inches. Photographs are mounted on black paper boards with handwritten captions in white pencil and interleaved tissue guards; string bound in patterned cloth boards. The album opens in Avignon with views of St. Pierre's Church and the Palais des Papes then continues through Italy with scenes of Naples and Pompeii as well as shipboard images captioned S.S. Adriatic. Subsequent sections include Athens with views of the Parthenon followed by Constantinople where four postcards depict the harbor the Sultan Ahmed Mosque and the Hagia Sophia shortly after the end of the Ottoman Empire. In British Mandate Palestine images show street scenes in Nazareth and Jerusalem including sites along the River Jordan the Western Wall and the Garden of Gethsemane alongside a captioned portrait labeled "A Jewish Maiden." The album concludes in Egypt with extensive views of archaeological and urban sites at Thebes Memphis Cairo and Luxor including the Obelisk of Hatshepsut Edfu Temple the tomb of Amenhotep II the Colossi of Memnon and the pyramids and Great Sphinx at Giza where the final group portrait shows the travelers posed on camels. Produced during the interwar period the album reflects expanding international tourism networks alongside ongoing European influence in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. The juxtaposition of ancient sites modern transport and local populations situates the material within broader histories of archaeology empire and travel culture in the early twentieth century. Light general wear to album and mounts; images well preserved with clear captions; overall very good condition. unknown books
1940rif. 73651Athenai: Typois 'Graphikai Technai' 1940. First edition 8vo 8¾" x 5¾" pp. 116; text in modern Greek throughout; portrait frontispiece; original ivory wrappers printed in blue and red; light soiling but generally very good sound and clean. Presentation copy inscribed by Prince Peter on the title page and dated 1941. This is his first book and OCLC lists no others. Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark 1908-1980 "was a Greek prince soldier and anthropologist specializing in Tibetan culture and polyandry. With his wife Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova Prince Peter embarked on a voyage to Asia in September 1937. The party passed through Syria and Persia before reaching British India in search of a tribe that Peter could study. They arrived in what is now Pakistan in early 1938 and Peter conducted research in the regions of Lahore Kulu Leh and Srinagar . Wishing to avoid the Himalayan winter they moved to South India and spent time with the Toda people. They visited the Nilgiris district Madras Kalimpong and finally Ceylon. Throughout the entire journey Peter focused his attention on the study of polyandry" Wikipedia. Princeton only in OCLC. Typois 'Graphikai Technai' unknown books
1844rif. 90951En Athenais: Ek tou Vasilikou typographeiou 1844. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 1 2 738p. Contemporary 1/4 leather with tiny leather corners. 22 cm. Cover moderately scuffed and rubbed. Small surface chip along top of front cover. Light staining on upper portion of last sixty leaves. All edges gilt. Greek text. The printed record of the Greek National Assembly of 1843 convened after the Third of September revolution of 1843 which produced the first Greek constitution. The minutes begin on Sept. 3 1843 and end on March 18 1844. The constitution formally established a constitutional monarchy. King Otto remained on the throne until he was deposed in 1862. One feature of the 1844 constitution progressive at the time was that it called for universal male suffrage. OCLC locates 3 copies in the United States Harvard Univ. of Cincinnati and Cal. State at Sacramento. Ek tou Vasilikou typographeiou hardcover books
1854rif. 1274641854. GROTE George. A History of Greece; from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great. London: John Murray 1851-57. Twelve volumes. Octavo early three-quarter green morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $3500.Early mixed edition of GroteÕs celebrated history of Greece illustrated with a large folding map of Greece and 25 engraved maps and plans 16 folding handsomely bound by Morrell.A banker member of Parliament staunch social reformer and one of the founders of the University of London Grote was among the first to attempt to write a comprehensive work on Greece's political and intellectual heritage. His History extends from the mythical beginnings of Greek culture and legend to the reign of Alexander the Great. ""The work of a masterÉ The political lessons and ethical judgments so characteristic of the History render it the most instructive of histories"" DNB. Grote ""incontestably won for himself the title not merely of a historian but of the historian of Greece"" Allibone I:747. Grote's History ""is notable for its accurate geographical details for the spirit and vigor of its passages descriptive of martial exploits and above all for its obvious purpose of showing the elevating and inspiring influence of freedom upon human activityÉ Each chapter is in a way a monograph in itself and the work as a whole is one of the greatest masterpieces of historical research that have ever been put forth"" Peck 753. Some folding maps heightened in color by hand. First published in 12 volumes in 1846-56. A mixed edition with volumes from the second third editions and fourth editions. Maps and text generally fine spines uniformly toned. A very handsome set. hardcover books
