Title Greece (30 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Loose Leaf. Condition: New. Reproduction. Original title: Title print for series The Seven Wise Men of Greece German: Titeldruck für Serie Die sieben Weisen von Griechenland French: Tirage du titre pour la série Les Sept Sages de Grèce Spanish: Título impreso para la serie Los Siete Sabios de Grecia High-quality fine-art reproduction based on an original work from the Rijksmuseum. Creation period: 17th century (1616). Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper (Photo Matt Fibre) in size A5. The motif is printed with a white border (museum-style presentation). No.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. 21 cm, 302 pp, map, b&w photo illus, soft covers. Author-signed inscription to half title. VG signed copy. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: see description. 8vo, vi,224pp, original cloth, title and Oxford escutcheon gilt on spine, the owl of Athene gilt on upper board, nice to see books are still read and absorbed, on about five pages there are pencil lines in the margins drawing attention to certain paragraphs, on a few some sentences neatly have been underlined, on one page pencil notes on superstitions, secret forms of worship and doctrines revealed only to the initiated, otherwise text clean and very good, rubbing top and bottom of spine and a small hole in the cloth at the bottom, vg.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Near Fine - Slight Chip. 1st UK Ed. [Young world books series] The children in this book are the author's friends who live on the island of Mykonos in the Aegean. It describes life there: houses, boats, industries, fishing, grinding corn, weaving, dyeing, baking. 94p. with B & W photographs by the author, illustrated end papers.Crisp copy looks unread . Book. …

original Kupferstich-Titelblatt von 1741 - Blattmaße: ca. 15 x 19,5 cm - gut erhalten. | original copper engraved title page from 1741 - good condition. | Dies ist ein Original! - Kein Nachdruck! - Keine Kopie! -- This is an original! No copy! - No reprint! // Wir, das Antiquariat Steffen Völkel, kaufen und verkaufen alte Bücher, Handschriften, Zeichnungen, Autographen, Grafiken und Fotografien. Wir sind stets am Ankauf von kompletten Bibliotheken, Sammlungen und Nachlässen interessiert. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 10. …

4to. pp. 268. illus. wrs.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by historian James Romm directly to the full title page. NOT inscribed to anyone. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! From an eminent historian and classicist, an incisive portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested by violent events in the most powerful Greek city of the era. Plato is one of history's most influential thinkers, the "sublime philosopher" whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his teacher, Socrates, discussing ethical truths with prominent citizens of Athens. Yet the image we have of Plato an ethereal figure far removed from society and politics, who conjured abstract ideas in peaceful groves is a fiction, created by Plato's admirers and built up over centuries. In fact, Plato was very much a man of the world. In Plato and the Tyrant, acclaimed historian and classicist James Romm draws on personal letters of Plato documents that have long been kept in obscurity to show how a philosopher helped topple the leading Greek power of the era: the opulent city of Syracuse. There, Plato encountered two authoritarian rulers, a father and son both named Dionysius, and tried to steer them toward philosophy. At the same time, he worked on his masterpiece, Republic, in which he conceived a ruler who unites perfect wisdom with absolute power. That dream has echoed down through the ages and given rise to a famous term, one that Plato himself didn't actually use: philosopher-king. As Romm reveals, Plato's time in Syracuse helped shape Republic and also had disastrous results for Plato himself and for all of Greek Sicily. The younger Dionysius, emotionally unstable but intellectually curious, welcomed Plato with open arms, but soon the relationship soured. Plato's close friendship with Dionysius's uncle, Dion possibly a bond of romantic love created a rift in the ruling family that led to a chaotic civil war. Combining thrilling political drama with explorations of Plato's most cherished ideas, Romm takes us into the heart of Greece's late classical age, a time when many believed that democracy had failed. Plato's search for solutions led him to write his fervent plea for a new political order, and also led him to a place where he believed his theories might be put into practice. But Plato and the Tyrant demonstrates how Plato's experiment with enlightened autocracy spiraled into catastrophe, and also gives us nothing less than a new account of the origins of Western political thought. Signed by Author(s).…

paperback. Condition: Good. A Brief History of Literary Theory in Europe - in ancient Greece and Rome to the nineteenth century [[title page lower right corner missing a small point. Handwriting].

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.HardCover. Pub Date: 1957 Pages: 300 Publisher: People's Education Press. is missing the title page. copyright page. Other intactFour Satisfaction guaranteed,or money back.…

Half cloth. Condition: Gut. 5, 90, 90, 8 p. ; ill. ; 47,5 x 36 cm. Guter Zustand. 47,5 x 36 cm. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempeln und Signatur auf Einband. Einband leicht fleckig und berieben. Sonst Seiten sauber. Griechisch, Englisch, Französisch und Russisch. / Good. 47,5 x 36 cm. Ex-library with usual markings. Cover slightly soiled. Clean pages. Title and text in Greek, French, English and Russian. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2650.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. No signatures. Quite heavy foxing to page edges. Some foxing to margins of leaves. 5mm missing at head of dust-jacket spine. 25mm abrasion to corner of front panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This copy signed by the author on the title page. xii, 538, [1] pages + frontispiece + 61 illustrations on 16 plate leaves + 1 facsimile letter + 8 folding colour maps + 23 in-text maps. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Blind-stamped coat of arms on front board. Page dimensions: 245 x 150mm. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall M78]. Contents: Preface; The First Echelon; The Second Echelon; Third Echelon Joins the First; The First Libyan Campaign, 1940-41; Assembly and Training of the New Zealand Division; Tha Balkan Front; W Force Moves into Position; The Germans invade Greece; The Monastir Gap; The Greek Front Begins to Crumble; The New Zealand Division goes into Action; The Defence of the Passes, 14-17 April; The Critical Days, 17-18 April; The Pinios Gorge; The Preparation of the Thermopylae Line; The Evacuation from Greece Begins; The Defence of Brallos and Thermopylae Passes, 224 April; The First Stages of the Evacuation; The Corinth Canal; The Evacuation Continues; Kalamata; 2 NZEF in North Africa, April-May 1941; Conclusion; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Printed and published by Lawrence Kay for Pictorial Newspapers, Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., [1941]. Large quarto (but printed throughout in oblong format), 52 pages (including the covers) with an illustrated introduction, a full-page advertisement ('Learn Drawing for Profit!'), 46 pages of comic strips, and advertisements on three sides of the covers. Saddle-stapled colour-pictorial title-wrappers a little foxed and marked, with a short sealed split to the foot of the spine; staples rusty, staining a little the paper in close proximity; mild signs of age and use; overall, a very good copy. The very rare first annual. 'Many who have followed their adventures and misadventures in The News and in Digger journals in the Middle East have urged that Bluey and Curley richly deserve a taste of C.B. - not in the form of confinement to barracks, but between the covers of a book. Hence the present volume. There is in the humour of Alex Gurney, the creator of the two irresponsible irrepressibles, something of the richness of a fine old port, a sound vintage calculated to improve with keeping and to bring a mellow glow to those who sample it. As comic creations Bluey and Curley are worthy to rank with Bairnsfather's immortal Old Bill. Their hard-boiled geniality and irreverent humour are typical of the Digger when off parade, and are qualities which have helped him to emerge with a grin from many a tight corner' (the introduction). Alexander George (Alex) Gurney (1902-1955) 'was already well established as a caricaturist, cartoonist, and comic strip artist . [when, in] late 1939, following the outbreak of World War II, he created his most famous characters, Bluey and Curley, which first appeared in the "Picture-News" magazine. It was transferred to "The Sun News-Pictorial" in 1940' and was widely syndicated. The Annuals were published from 1941 to 1960. After Gurney's death, 'the strip was drawn by Norman Howard Rice (1911-1956). Rice died as the result of a car accident on 31 December 1956 . The strip was then drawn by Les Dixon from 1957 until 1975' (Wikipedia). The strip featured a pair of soldiers, red-headed Bluey, the Great War veteran who had re-enlisted in the Second AIF, and Curley (the hair again), the new recruit. 'As an accredited war correspondent, Gurney visited army camps throughout Australia to obtain authentic detail and gain a feel for military life; he contracted malaria in August 1944 while visiting New Guinea. The strip made "superb use of Australian idiom and slang", and had an "instinctive understanding and interpretation of the Australian male"' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). 'Although Bluey and Curley were popular with Australians because they related to the slang, attitude, and the lack of respect towards authority exhibited by the main characters, the strip lost some of its appeal and readership when the pair returned to "civvy street"' (Wikipedia again - although a 37-year run is not bad by any reckoning).…

Condition: Very Good-. Athens: ["Hellenic Publishing Company"], 1940. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's printed card wrappers; [6],139pp.; black and white photographs throughout. Wrappers a bit worn at spine ends, soil to wrappers including old ring stain and a couple splashes to upper cover, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Warmly inscribed and signed in French in a contemporary hand on title page. …

[Milano], SilvanaEditoriale, 2003. 2 vols. 607, 583 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. uniform softcovers (pictorial wrappers). 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. About 150 photos (or photos of photos) and postcards, all firmly pasted down, two to a page on both sides of album leaves. Album leaves rather worn, with chipping along fore-edges. Some page rippling. Photos are black and white as are many of the postcards. Most of the photographic images, while appealing, are a bit faint and much less sharply detailed than one would like. No captions except for the printed captions on some of the postcards. The last 8 album leaves are unused. Undated but probably sometime in the first quarter of the 20th century. Moderate-sized oblong album covered in flexible patterned leather (25 x 18 cm.). Cover worn along edges and rubbed. The first 93 images, mostly photos rather than postcards, appear to relate to India or adjacent areas (a few seem Burmese to us, partly because the appearance of some of the temples). The next 7 photos and 11 postcards relate to Egypt or nearby arid settings followed by 12 postcards and 27 photos which relate to Greece. The final four images (all postcards) relate to China. The South Asian images, as loosely defined by us, begins with about 30 images that could be non-Indian followed by scenes of bathing in the Ganges, numerous interior and exterior images of various antiquities (including several of the Taj Mahal), a few elephants and a few other images. Our Egyptian images begin with four photos of an unidentified caravan featuring rather heavily laden camels, followed by postcard images mostly of antiquities (the Sphinx, pyramids, Karnak and Thebes). The Greek images provide a strong dose of antiquities and a few images of traditionally attired Greeks including a black and white photo of a gun-toting young man and a color postcard, captioned in part "Soldat Grec (Efzonaki)." The final four images are three color postcards of Chinese scenes and a black and white image of an indeterminately-located street scene.…

London, James Duncan, 1830. Two volumes, 12mo. Contemporary half-morocco over marbled boards, spine ruled, numbered and lettered in gilt; pp. [2], iv, 375; [2], iv, 336, folding engraved map, seven engraved plates; light toning and discolouration here and there, more so to engravings; a very good set with 20th-century German bookplate.Rare. Second edition of the sum of the topographical and geographical knowledge of Greece, published just before Greek independence had been achieved offcially. In 1824 the bookseller and writer Josiah Conder (1789-1822) had 'entered into an agreement with James Duncan of Paternoster Row to edit the afterwards well-known series of the Modern Traveller, undertaking in the first instance to furnish the volume on Palestine only. Ultimately he compiled the whole set of thirty volumes (1825-9), having assistance in only one or two of them. The series was successful, despite the fact of its editor's never having left his native country' (ODNB). 'It was one part of the plan, so to arrange the volumes that the description of any country might be sold peparately' (author's preface the first volume in the 30-volume series).…

Oblong photo album, 11 x 15.5 in., bound in 3/4 leather and embroidered cloth boards. Gilt title on spine. Professional photos laid down on stiff card stock mounted on cloth tape stubs, one photo to a page, recto and verso, varying in size from 10 x 13 in., to 8 x 10 in.; with 8 smaller images, 5 x 3.5 in. to 5 x 8 in. The first group of 15 photos, most approx. 8 x 10 in., and one smaller, show views of the Acropolis in Athens both from a distance and with a closer focus on specific architectural features. Two additional photos depict the Panathenaic Stadium, site of the first modern Olympic games, held in Athens in 1896. One image shows the stadium empty of spectators, with a scattered group of well-dressed men examining the site; the second (mottled, a bit faded) shows the stands packed to capacity and anticipating an event. Two smaller images are studio photos of people in traditional Greek dress. Most of the images have numbers printed in the negative, but no other identifying marks. The remainder of the album, with 37 large photos [10 x 13 in. to 7.75 x 10 in.], and 5 smaller [5 x 3.5 in.] are views of various sites in Turkey. Nineteen have caption titles and numbers, and the name of the photographers Abdullah Freres in the negatives. They include: Akhir-Kapou; Vue prise du Vieux Serail [Topkapi]; Ste. Sophie [Hagia Sophia], La Tribune Imperial; Ste. Sophie, Vue de la Chaire; Tombeau du Sultan Mahmoud; Trone des Anciens Sultans; Mosquee dy Sultan Ahmed; Palais de Tcheraghan; etc. At least two others belong to a Swedish photographer, G[uillaume] Berggren, with his name in the negative: Escaliers de Dolma-Bagtche; Escaliers [de] palais de Beyte[?]. The three Abdullah brothers combined their talents in a Constantinople photographic studio in 1858. According to Wendy Shaw's book "Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire," (Univ. of California Press: 2003), these young men of Armenian descent first purchased an established business in the Beyazit neighborhood of Constantinople in 1858, but moved it to Pera, a more prominent location in the city in 1867. Abdullah Freres became official court photographers to Sultan Abudulaziz and "one of the most famous photographic establishments and galleries of the era." They were responsible for the panoramic views on display at the Turkish exhibition at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1867 and a book of photographs produced for the 1873 Vienna World Exposition, helping to fuel European interest in the country. The shop closed in 1899. Guillaume Berggren (1835-1920) was a self-taught Swedish photographer who first arrived in Constantinople in 1866. He opened his studio in the Pera neighborhood in 1870, producing studio, tourist, and architectural photographs. He continued to work in the city for the rest of his life, though his fortunes suffered and he died in poverty.…

Technic: Woodcut, colorit: original colored, condition: Very good, size (in cm): 33 x 45, Trapezoid map of Greece with all the islands.

Technic: Lithography, colorit: original colored, condition: Tears perfectly restored, size (in cm): 54,5 x 82 cm, Decorative representation of greek idleness, drinking wine, playing games, walking arround or just sleeping in the shade.

Technic: Lithography, colorit: original colored, condition: Tears perfectly restored, size (in cm): 54 x 81,5 cm, Decorative representation of greek idleness, drinking wine, playing games, walking arround or just sleeping in the shade.

Technic: Copper print, colorit: colored, condition: Binding some damages because of age, size (in cm): 22 x 14 cm, Collecting atlas of Greece, showing 28 folded maps. 1 total map of Greece, 27 parts of Greece, 1 representation of greek coins.

1 vols. varios sizes. 1 vols. varios sizes. Richard Guindon, raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, went to New York in the 60's where he worked as a free-lance cartoonist. His cartoons appeared in "Playboy," "Esquire," "The Nation, "The Realist," and "Downbeat," to name a few. For a year he was travelling in Greece, Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Turkey as a cartoonist-correspondent for "The Realist." He returned to Minneapolis in 1968 after some 11 years there he moved on to the "Detroit Free Press." Jesse Frankel was a Professor of Anthropology at Pace University in New York. He attended Cornell, CUNY (MS) and NYU (PhD) then taught at the New School, Cooper Union and NYU. He and his wife Ida were both deeply involved in the civil rights movement and "local progressive politics" in New York and were very interested in "examining aging and intergenerational conflict inspired by the cultural changes in the Sixties." (Anthropology Obits.) He died October 1996 and his wife three months later. While having no children of their own, it is apparently from this correspondence that Guindon was very close to them and they to him. They were the dedicatees of his "World according to Carp" Some rubbing of binding,s light soiling, some of Frankel retained copies badly creased and torn, some browning of newpaper clippings, else a very good collection.…

Kein Einband. Condition: Befriedigend. Turkey in Europe, anno 1851, steelengraving, Rapkin RAPKIN, J. & [TALLIS, John]. Original steel engraved map of the Turkish Empire in Europe, showing the area from northern Greece, through the Balkans and up to Austria. Vignette illustration of the Bosphorus and Constantinople. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the image. Map 22 x 29.5 cm.…

original Kupferstich handkoloriert, original copperengraving, hand-coloured, image size approximately 19,5x 29,5 cm; margins partly trimmed Tooley III, 448 // old Antique Print / originale Druckgrafik en 500 Landkarte.

Kupferstich, 38 x 30 cm; Titelkartusche links, kl. Wurmgänge am Kartenrand antike originale Landkarte, antique original map de 500 Landkarte.

image format, 13,5 x 20 cm ORIGINAL , antique , antike Grafik de 500 Grafik.