Lot 76
  • 76

Cyprus and the Aegean–Bondelmonti, Christoph.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Librum insularum archipelagi. Leipzig and Berlin: G. Reimer, 1824, 2 folding maps, coloured by hand, of Crete and Corfu, nineteenth-century cloth, spine lettered in gilt, [Weber II, 95; Contominas 107]
Jurien de la Gravière, Jean Baptiste Edmond. La guerre de Chypre et la bataille de Lépante. Paris: Libraire Plon, 1888, 2 volumes, 14 plans on 13 sheets, contemporary morocco-backed boards, [Cobham-Jeffery, p.23]
Deschamps, Émile. Au pays d'Aphrodite. Chypre. Carnet d'un voyageur. Paris: Hachette, 1898, illustrations, slightly later cloth-backed marbled boards, [Cobham-Jefferey, p.15]
Dawkins, R.M. The Nature of the Cypriot chronicle of Leontios Makhairas... the Taylorian Lecture 1945. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1945, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author, original printed wrappers
Makhairas, Leontios. Recital concerning the Sweet Land of Cyprus entitled "Chronicle" edited... by R.M. Dawkins. New York: AMS Press, [no date], a facsimile reprint of the 1932 edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth



Together 7 volumes, first editions, except the last, 8vo

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

The Bondelomenti and Jurien de la Gravière are rare.