Greece rare books
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First collected edition, 2 volumes, folio, half-title in volume 1, 21 engraved plates including frontispieces, bookplates; contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, Marquis of Stafford gilt arms to covers, joints cracked but firm, corners worn, a very good set.
£5,000 -
First edition. Limited to 300 copies, folio, xxiv, 446, [ii] pp., frontispiece,16 full-page illustrations, some in colour, original grey boards, faded, later label to spine, light wear, a good copy.
£2,000 -
First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, 8vo, viii, 504; viii, 508 pp., inscribed 'from the author' on half-title, folding map, and 10 plates and plans, several folding, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, lower joints split, spines faded, boards lightly marked, some pencil annotations, very neatly rebacked preserving all the spines and paper labels, a very good copy.
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First edition. 8vo, vi, [ii], 399 pp., lithographed frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, map, 5 lithograph plates, original patterned green cloth gilt, neat repairs to extremities, a very good copy.
£675 -
First editions in English, 6 volumes, 8vo & 4to, Troy and its Remains (1875): 52 plates on 51 sheets, one folding, 3 folding maps & plans; Mycenae (1878), 21 wood-engraved and 4 chromolithographed plates, 3 folding, 8 maps & plans, 3 folding; Ilios: the City and Country of the Trojans (1880), wood-engraved frontispiece and 2 folding plates, 7 folding maps & plans; Troja (1884), 4 colour maps and plans, 3 folding; Tiryns (1886), folding frontispiece, 29 maps, plates & plans, many colour, some folding, ink inscription to head of title, with wide margins, § SCHUCHHARDT (Dr. C.) Schliemann's Excavations: an Archaeological and Historical Study (1891), half-title, 2 portraits, 4 plates, one folding, and 7 maps & plans, 4 folding. One or two leaves browned, occasional foxing, old library label to front pastedowns, uniform later half turquoise morocco, spines gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, a fine set.
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First English edition, 2 vols, 4to, xlii, 402; [iv], 398, [xviiii] pp., folding engraved map by Senex (not present in the French edition) and 152 engraved plates & maps, 6 folding, folding map and one or two folding plates neatly laid down on linen, vol.1 with title creased and map of Thermia stained in lower margin, vol.2 lightly water-stained towards end, later half tan morocco, by Zaehnsdorf, spines ruled in gilt with raised bands and green morocco labels, t.e.g., light wear, a very good set.
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First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, xxii, [ii], 399, [iii]; xiv, [ii], 437 pp., 20 engraved plates by Lizars after drawings by the author, contemporary polished calf gilt, chip to lower spine vol i, lacking 3 labels, marbled edges, offsetting from plates to text, light browning to some plates, joints cracked but firm, a good set.
£475 -
First edition. 8vo, xxiv, 267, [iii] (directions to binder & errata) pp., 12 lithographed plates and maps, original boards, uncut, paper label to spine, with Errata/Directions to the Binder leaf at end, two preliminary leaves misbound, spine renewed, a very good copy.
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First edition. 8vo, xiv, [1], 344pp., 5 maps and plans (1 folding), original blue cloth gilt, spine richly gilt, gilt vignette to upper cover, all edges gilt, front free endpaper sometime renewed, a very good copy.
£875 -
First editions. 2 volumes, 4to, xxii, viii, 615; xxi, [iii], 603, 8 pp., first work with 14 engraved plates including the 4 folding plates that form a panorama of Athens, second work with 13 engraved plates and an engraved vignette, uniform contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt, light foxing, a handsomely bound set.
£2,500