Please note that for sale
here is a Rare Antiquarian Books Library of 41 Greek interest volumes
- 38 spiral bound (S), 2 on press binders (P), and 1 on a ring binder (R)
- described below, and not just the 1970 single volume "History of
Greece" by George Finlay as stated in the above pre-filled "Item specifics" and "Detailed item info" fields.
The 41 volumes (V) contain
Xeroxed copies of 32 Rare Antiquarian Books (B) from 1727 to 1924 and 23 mostly
rare Antiquarian Book/Magazine parts (M). All books and articles are copied
with 1 or 2 pages on an 8.5" x 11" size paper, 40 are bound on the
11" paper side - 38 with a plastic spiral with a thick Mylar front cover
and a soft cover on the back, 2 on press binders, and 1 in a ring
binder with loose-page articles in plastic folders.
V1/S1/B1. Modern
History: or, the Present State of All Nations. Describing Their Respective
Situations, Persons, Habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and
Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufacturers and Husbandry, Plants, Animals
and Minerals. By Mr. Salmon. Vol. V. Containing the Present State of Egypt, with an Account of the Pyramids, and other Curiosities in that
Kingdom. A Description of Crim and Little Tartary: of Romania, Greece, the Islands of the
Archipelago, and the rest of Turkish Provinces in Europe. With an Account of the State of Religion, and particularly of the Christian Religion in the
Ottoman Empire. Illustrated with Cuts and Maps, accurately drawn,
according to the Geographical Part of the World. London: Printed for James Crokatt, 1727.
V2/S2/B2. Travels in
Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By
Edward Daniel Clarke. Part the First - Russia, Tartary, and Turkey - Section 1. New York: Printed and Published by Fay, & Co., 1813.
V3-V8/S3-S8/B3. Travels in
Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa by Edward
Daniel Clarke. Part the Second - Greece Egypt and the Holy Land -
Section the Second. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies Strand, 1814. (I personally owned this 7" X 10" [xv/Preface+(12/Contents)+(20/Remarks on the Libraries of Greece)+822/Text+(28/Copper-Plates, Maps, and Charts)]-page original and sold it several years ago for $450.)
V9/S9/B4. Greece in 1823 and 1824; Being a Series of Letters, and
Other Documents, of the Greek Revolution, Written During a Visit to That
Country. A New Edition, Containing Numerous Supplementary Papers, Illustrative
of the State in Greece in 1825. By the Honourable Colonel Leicester
Stanhope. Illustrated with several Curious Fac-similes. To Which Are Added,
Reminiscences of Lord Byron. London: Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1825.
V10/S10/B5. Sketches of
the War in Greece, In a Series of Extracts, from the Private Correspondence of
Philip James Green, Esq., Late British Consul in the Morea; With Illustrative
Notes; and Appendix, Containing Official, and Other Documents, Relating to the
Affairs of Greece. Second Edition. London: Thomas Hurst & Co. / T. Clerc Smith / John
Bumpus, 1828.
V11/S11/B6. An Historical
Sketch of the Greek Revolution. By Samuel G. Howe, M.D., Late Surgeon in Chief
to the Greek Fleet. Second edition. New York: White, Gallaher &White, 1828.
V12/S12/B7. Narrative of a
Greek Soldier; Containing Anecdotes and Occurrences Illustrating the Character
and Manners of the Greeks and Turks in Asia Minor, and Detailing Events of the
Late War in Greece, In which the author was actively engaged, by land and sea,
from the commencement of the Revolution. By Petros Mengous. New York: Printed and Published by Elliot and Palmer, 1830.
V13/S13/B8. The Modern
Traveller. A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical of the
Various Countries of the Globe. In Thirty Volumes. By Josiah Conder. Volume the
Fifteenth (Greece I). London: James Duncan. 1830.
V14/S14/B9. The Modern
Traveller. A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical of the
Various Countries of the Globe. In Thirty Volumes. By Josiah Conder. Volume the
Sixteenth (Greece II). London: James Duncan. 1830.
V15/S15/B10. Narrative of
a Journey across the Balcan, by the Two Passes of Selimo and Pravadi; Also of a
Visit to Azani, and other Newly Discovered Ruins in Asia Minor, in the years 1829-30. By Major, the Honourable
George Keppel, F.S.A. in Two Volumes. Vol. I. London: 1831.
V16/S16/B11. Narrative of
a Journey across the Balcan, by the Two Passes of Selimo and Pravadi; Also of a
Visit to Azani, and other Newly Discovered Ruins in Asia Minor, in the years 1829-30. By Major, the Honourable
George Keppel, F.S.A. in Two Volumes. Vol. II. London: 1831
V17/P1/B12. Journal of a
Tour to Malta, Greece, Asia Minor, Carthage, Algiers, Port Mahon, and Spain in
1828 by Samuel Woodruff, Agent of the Greek Committee of the city of New York,
for the distribution of provisions to the suffering inhabitants of Greece to
which is appended an account of the distribution of provisions and clothing to
the suffering Greeks, by the agents of the Greek Committee of the city of New
York, sent in the brig Herald, May 1828. Hartford; published by Cooke & Co., 1831.
V18/S17/B13. History of
the Greek Revolution. By Thomas Gordon, F.R.S. in Two Volumes. Vol. I.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood / London: T. Cadell, Strand, 1832.
V19/S18/B14. History of
the Greek Revolution. By Thomas Gordon, F.R.S. in Two Volumes. Vol. II. Edinburgh: William Blackwood / London: T. Cadell, Strand, 1832.
V20/S19/B15. Visit to Constantinople and Athens. By Rev. Walter Colton, U. S. N. New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co. / Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1836.
V21/S20/B16. Anastasius or
Memoir of a Greek written at the close of the eighteenth century by Thomas Hope
in two volumes. Vol. I. London: John Murray, 1836. A New Edition.
V22/P2/B17. Anastasius or
Memoir of a Greek written at the close of the eighteenth century by Thomas Hope
in two volumes. Vol. II. London:
John Murray, 1836. A New Edition.
V23/S21/B18. Incidents of
Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland by the Author of "Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petrae, and the Holy Land." With a Map and Engravings. In Two Volumes.
Vol. I. Seventh Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843.
V24/S22/B19. Incidents of
Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland by the Author of "Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petrae, and the Holy Land." With a Map and Engravings. In Two Volumes.
Vol. II. Seventh Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847.
V25/S23/B20. Visits to
Monasteries in the Levant. By the Honourable Robert Curzon, Jun. With
Numerous Woodcuts. Fourth Edition. London: John Murray, 1851
V26/S24/B21. History of
the Greek Revolution: Compiled from Official Documents of the Greek Government;
Sketches of the War In Greece, by Philip James Green, Esq., Late British Consul
for Patras, in Greece; and the Recent Publications of Mr. Blaquiere, Mr.
Humphrey, Mr. Emerson, Count Pecchio, Rt. Hon. Col. Stanhope, the Modern
Traveller, and Other Authentic Sources. By John L. Comstock. To which is added
an Appendix and Addendum, embracing an Account of the Last Days of Lord Byron;
Formation of the Grecian Philanthropic Society; Declaration of Independence; a
Sketch of Events in Greece from 1827 to 1850, &c., &c. Hartford: Silas Andrus and Son, 1853.
V27/S25/B22. Travels in Greece and Russia, with an Excursion in Crete. By Bayard Taylor. New York: G. P. Putman, 1859.
V28/S26/B23 & B24.
"History of the Greek Revolution by George Finlay in Two Volumes. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood and Sons, 1861." First
Edition.
Volume I Contents: Book I. Events Preceding the Revolution - 1. The Condition
of the Modern Greece, 2. The Albanians, 3. Sultan Mahmud and Ali Pasha
of Joannina; Book II. The Commencement of the Revolution - 1. The Causes, 2.
The Operations of the Greek Hetairists beyond the Danube, 3. The Outbreak of the Revolution in Greece, 4. The Policy and Conduct of Sultan Mahmud II;
Book III. The Successes of the Greeks - 1. The Establishment of Greece as an Independent State, 2. The Presidency of Mavrocordatos, 3. Fall of Athens / Defeat of Dramali / Fall of Nauplia.
Volume II Contents: Book
III (cont'ed). 4. The Success of the Greeks - The Condition of Greece as an Independent State; Book IV. The Successes of the Turks - 1. Naval Success / Ibrahim in
the Morea, 2. The Siege of Messolonghi, 3. The Siege of Athens; Book V. The Establishment of the Greek Kingdom - 1. Foreign Intervention / Battle of Navarin, 2. Presidency of Count Capodistrias /
January 1828 to October 1931, 3. Anarchy / 9th October 1831 to 1st February 1833, 4. Bavarian despotism and Constitutional
Revolution / February 1833 to September 1843.
V29/S27/B25. The Turk and
the Greek; or, Creeds, Races, Society, and Scenery in Turkey, Greece, and the Isles of Greece. By S. G. W. Benjamin. New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton, 1867.
V30/S28/B26. The Greeks of
To-day. By Charles K. Tuckerman, Late Minister Resident of the United States at Athens. New York: G. P. Putman & Sons, 1872.
V31/S29/B27. The Cretan
Insurrection of 1866-7-8. By William J. Stillman, Late U. S. Consul in Crete. New
York: Henry
Holt and Company, 1874.
V32/S30/B28. Greek
Vignettes. A sail in the Greek Seas, summer of 1877. By James Albert Harrison. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878.
V33/S31/B29. The Greek Islands and Turkey after the War. By Henry M. Fields. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885.
V34/S32/B30. The War of
Greek Independence 1821 to 1833. By W. Alison Phillips, With Map. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1897.
V35/S33/B31. The Private
Life of the Sultan of Turkey. By George Dorys, Son of the Late Prince of Samos, One of the Sultan's Ministers, Ex-Governor of Crete, Etc. Translated by Arthur Hornblow. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901.
V36/S34/B32. The Great
Betrayal, A Survey of the Near East problem. By Edward Hale Bierstadt. With the
editorial assistance of Helen Davidson Creighton. Foreword by Edward Capps,
Former Minister from the United states to Greece. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1924.
V37/S35/M1-M3:
M1. From Brusa to Constantinople, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume LV.
M2. Turkish Proverbs, both
from Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume XLVIII, December 1873 to May 1874.
M3. Chapter CXIV - The Dardanelles and the Balkans; Intervention of Bulgaria. From The Times History of the War, 1916.
V38/S36/M4-M11:
M4. The Revolution of Greece. From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. IV, April, 1833, Vol. XXXIII.
M5. The Fall of Turkey. From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. VI, June, 1833, Vol. XXXIII.
M6. Art. XII. - Greek
Controversy. The American Quarterly Review, March 1827.
M7. Art. VI. - Greek
Revolution. The American Quarterly Review, March 1829 - 1. An Historical Sketch
of the Greek Revolution. By Samuel G. Howe, M.D., Late Surgeon in Chief to the
Greek Fleet. Second edition. New York: White, 1828, 2. The Condition of Greece
in 1827 and 1828, being an Exposition of the Poverty, Distress, and Misery
to which the Inhabitants have been reduced , by the Destruction of their Towns
and Villages, and the Ravages of their Country by a Merciless Turkish Foe. By
Colonel Lonathan P. Miller. New York, 1828.
M8. The Revolution in Greece. From The Works of Daniel Webster. Volume III.
Eighteenth Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1881.
M9. The Life of Lord
Byron. By Alexander Leighton. From the Poetical Works of Lord Byron. New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
M10. The Life of Lord
Byron. By J. W. Lake. From The Complete Works of Lord Byron.
M11. Notices of the Life
of Lord Byron and Appendix. From The Works of Lord Byron. With His Letters and
Journals, and His Life, By Thomas Moore, Esq. in 14 Volumes. Vol. I. London:
John Murray, 1832.
V39/S37/M12-M14
M12. Chambers's Papers for
the People - The Bonaparte Family. Edinburgh: William and Robert Chamber, 1850. "During
the last period of the Middle Ages, a family of eminence, enjoying the rank of
nobility, flourished in Tuscany,
whence its branches spread into other of the minor states of Italy. A Grecian origin has been ascribed by
genealogists to this family, whose name upon settling in Italy was changed from Calomeros into the synonyme
Buonaparte by which it was subsequently known..."
M13. History of the First
Greeks in America from "The History of the Order of AHEPA (The
American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association) 1922-1972."
M14. The Greek settlement
at New Smyrna, Florida, U.S.A. (1768) from "The History of the Order of
AHEPA (The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association)
1922-1972."
V40/S38/M15
M15. Turkey - Part I. A Brief History. Part II-XV. The
Imperial House of Osmam - Genealogy.
V41/R/M16-M23
M16. Greece and the War, 1914-16. The Times History and
Encyclopaedia of the War. Part 165, Vol. 13, Oct. 16, 1817.
M17. Greece and the War, 1914-16. The Times History and
Encyclopaedia of the War. Part 166, Vol. 13, Oct. 23, 1817.
M18. The Times History of
the War, Vol XII, 1917.
M19. Art. VI. - Complete
Works of Viscount Chateaubriand. The American Quarterly Review, Vol. II,
September & December 1827.
M20. American Quarterly
Review . No. IV. December 1827. Art. I - Prolegomena ad Homerum (1795). The
American Quarterly Review, Vol. II, September & December 1827.
M21. Art V. - Of the
Eatables and Wines of Greece and Italy in use amongst the Romans. The American Quarterly
Review, Vol. II, September & December 1827.
M22. Art. IX. Sketches of
the War in Greece, in a series of Extracts from the Correspondence
of Philip James Green, late British Consul for the Morea; with Notes, by R. L.
Green, Vice Consul; and an Appendix, containing Official Documents, relating to
the affairs of Greece. London. 1827. The American Quarterly Review, Vol. III,
March & June 1828.
M23. (in Greek) Chapter
Seventh - Crete. Greece: Great Illustrated Folklore-Geography-History by
K. Romaiou.
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