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Lanna Antique has an extensive range of high quality antiquarian and collectible books. We are also specialists in Asian art books, including Chinese art. We stock South East Asian Buddhist manuscripts and have many interesting publications and oddities for sale. We also aim to bring you interesting titles covering a wide range of subject matter, and update our online stock frequently.
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Mediterranean Picture Lands, Emelene Abbey Dunn, with Illustrations from Water-Color Sketches by the Author, 1929
A beautiful copy of this work by American artist, Emelene Abbey Dunn (1859-1929), who founded the New York Normal Art School, after studying art in...
View full detailsCampaign of the Falieri and Piraeus In the Year 1827, C.W.J. Eliot, 1992, Author's gift copy to William St Clair
A smart gift copy from the author to William St Clair as denoted in St Clair's own hand on the first pastedown and with accompanying Publisher's pa...
View full detailsLord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; With Recollections of The Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy, Leigh Hunt, 1828, 2 Volume set
A very smart 2 volume set of professionally rebacked full leather volumes containing fine condition text. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries...
View full detailsSpecimens of the Classic Poets in a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus, Charles Abraham Elton, 2 Vols, 1814
Specimens of the Classic Poets in a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus, Translated into English Verse, And Illustrated with Biographic...
View full detailsA.E. Housman; A Sketch Together with a List of his Writings, A.S.F. Gow, Cambridge, 1936
Acknowledged as one of the foremost classicists of his age, this is a smart copy of a biographical sketch of the life of Alfred Edward Housman (185...
View full detailsHistory of Herodotus, In Four Volumes, George Rawlinson, 1880, John Murray
History of Herodotus. A new English version, edited with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodutus, from th...
View full detailsSamuel G. Howe; An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution, Revised by George Georgiades Arnakis, 1966
From the 'Americans in the Greek Revolution' series. The account of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an American surgeon who went to Greece when just 24 ye...
View full detailsVoyage en Grece; Journal de bord, Henry Harrel-Courtes, 1957, author inscribed copy
Author's presentation copy, inscribed to half title. A very uncommon book, with Worldcat only identifying 3 institutional holdings. Voyage en Grece...
View full detailsGennadeion Notes III; Athens in the Time of Lord Byron, C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. From Hesperia, 1968
Gennadeion Notes III; Athens in the Time of Lord Byron, by C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. A journal offprint;...
View full detailsLord Byron, Early Travellers, and the Monastery at Delphi, C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair.
Lord Byron, Early Travellers, and the Monastery at Delphi, C.W.J. Eliot. Presentation copy from the author to William St Clair. A journal offprint;...
View full detailsPolyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus, Danielis Georg Morhof, 1714
Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus. Maximam Partem Opus Posthumum. Accurate Revisum, Emendatum, ex Autoris Annotationibus... Morhofii...
View full detailsDemosthenis; Opera ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem, Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1812, 5 volumes
Demosthenis; Opera ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem, Accurate Edita. Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1812, 5 volumes. The best works of Demosthenes, Greek statesman...
View full detailsRambles & Studies in Greece, J.P. Mahaffy, 1887
Rambles & Studies in Greece, by J.P. Mahaffy. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, acade...
View full detailsErichthonius and The Three Daughters of Cecrops, Benjamin Powell, Cornell Thesis, 1906
Erichthonius and The Three Daughters of Cecrops, by Benjamin Powell, A.B., A.M. A Thesis presented to the University Faculty of Cornell university ...
View full detailsThucydides Mythistoricus, Francis Macdonald Cornford, 1907
Thucydides Mythistoricus, by Francis Macdonald Cornford, Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge. SOLD Provenance; from the library of th...
View full detailsLes Brienne de Lecce et D'Athenes; Histoire, Le Cte. Fernand De Sassenay, Hachette, Paris, 1869
Les Brienne de Lecce et D'Athenes; Histoire D'Une Des Grandes Familles de la Feodalite Francaise (1200-1356), par Le Cte. Fernand De Sassenay (The ...
View full detailsHistory of The Society of Dilettanti, Lionel Cust & Sidney Colvin, 1898, Limited edition
History of The Society of Dilettanti. Compiled by Lionel Cust, M.A., Director of the National Portrait Gallery and edited by Sidney Colvin, M.A., K...
View full detailsThe Elgins, 1766-1917; A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives, Sydney Checkland, 1988
The Elgins, 1766-1917; A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives, by Sydney Checkland. Provenance; from the library of the late William St ...
View full detailsLord Elgin e i marmi del Partenone, William St Clair, 1st Italian edition, 1968
Lord Elgin e i marmi del Partenone, di William St Clair. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian...
View full detailsLord Elgin and the Marbles, by William St. Clair, 1967
Lord Elgin and the Marbles, by William St. Clair. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, ...
View full detailsLord Elgin and the Marbles, William St. Clair, 1967
Lord Elgin and the Marbles, by William St. Clair. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, acade...
View full detailsA Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974
A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (193...
View full detailsA Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974, William St Clair signed copy
A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974, William St Clair signed copy. Provenance; from the library of ...
View full detailsA Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos, 1974, William St Clair inscribed copy
A Shadow of Magnitude; The Acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, Theodore Vrettos; William St Clair inscribed copy. Provenance; from the library of the...
View full detailsThe Elgin Affair, Greek Language edition, 1998. Υπόθεση Έλγιν : το χρονικό της αρπαγής των μεγαλύτερων θησαυρών της αρχαιότητας, Γιώργος Η. Κουσουνέλος
The Elgin Affair; The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused, by Theodore Vrettos. (Υπόθεση Έλγιν : το χρονικό της...
View full detailsThe Elgin Affair; The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused, Theodore Vrettos, 1997
The Elgin Affair; The Abduction of Antiquity's Greatest Treasures and the Passions it Aroused, by Theodore Vrettos. Provenance; from the library of...
View full detailsBenjamin Robert Haydon and the Critical Reception of the Elgin Marbles, PhD dissertation, Frederick Cummings, Chicago, 1967
Benjamin Robert Haydon and the Critical Reception of the Elgin Marbles; A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Division of the Humanities i...
View full detailsByron and Greece, by Harold Spender, 1924
Byron and Greece, by Harold Spender. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and autho...
View full detailsLatran V et Trente, O. De La Brosse, J. Lecler, H. Holstein & CH. Lefebvre, 1975
Histoire Des Conciles Oecumeniques 10; Latran V et Trente, by O. De La Brosse, J. Lecler, H. Holstein & CH. Lefebvre. Published under the direc...
View full detailsTrelawny by R. Glynn Grylls, 1950
Trelawny by R. Glynn Gryll. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. H...
View full detailsSir Richard Church, Commander in Chief of the Greeks in the War of Independence, Stanley Lane-Poole
Sir Richard Church, C.B., G.C.H., Commander in Chief of the Greeks in the War of Independence, by Stanley Lane-Poole. Provenance; from the library ...
View full detailsYoung Romantics; The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives, Daisy Hay, 2010
Young Romantics; The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2...
View full detailsLord Byron in Greece, Fani-Maria Tsigakou, 1987, English and Greek text
Lord Byron in Greece, Athens, 22 January - 22 March 1988, The Kostis Palamas Building. Catalogue compiled and edited by Fani-Maria Tsigakou. Contri...
View full detailsByron; Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, Benita Eisler 1999
Byron; Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, by Benita Eisler. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian...
View full detailsHesiod; Theogony and Works and Days, Northwestern University Press, 2017
Hesiod; Theogony and Works and Days. Translated from the Greek by Kimberly Johnson. A new Bilingual Edition. Part of Northwestern World Classics se...
View full detailsKalimera Kiwi, C.M. Wheeler, 1946
Kalimera Kiwi; To Olympus with the New Zealand Engineers by C.M. Wheeler. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 20...
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