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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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La Béotie Antique, Pierre Guillon, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1948
An attractive French publication on Ancient Boeotia, a region in central Greece, characterized by fertile plains and a rich history. It was a disti...
View full detailsThe Oxford History of England, 7 Volumes, from Roman Britain to The Age of Reform, early editions
A very smart set of 7 volumes from the classic series 'The Oxford History of England', which have been attractively and uniformly rebound in navy b...
View full detailsThe Scallop; Studies of a shell and its influences on humankind, edited by Ian Cox, Shell Transport and Trading Company, 1957
An interesting and well produced book from the Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited, marking their Diamond Jubilee. Based on their famous s...
View full detailsAntiquity Explained and Represented in Sculptures, Vol IV, by the Learned Father Montfaucon, Translated by David Humphreys, Printed by J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1721
First published in Paris in 1719, this is David Humphrey's 1721 translation of this work by Father Bernard de Montfaucon. This folio size volume is...
View full detailsGreece, The Hidden Centuries; Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence, David Brewer, 2010
A smart copy of David Brewer's study of seven centuries of Greek life under the rule of the Ottoman Turks, before Greece became a self-governing na...
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 detailsCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; The Logic of Violence in Civil War, Stathis N. Kalyvas, 2013
A highly respected work on civil war and insurgency. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; The Logic of Violence in Civil War. By Stathis N. K...
View full detailsRoman Society; From Nero to Marcus Aurelius, Samuel Dill, 1905
Roman Society; From Nero to Marcus Aurelius. By Samuel Dill, M.A. Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London and The Macmillan Company, New Yo...
View full detailsThe Struggle for Greek Independence, Richard Clogg, Macmillan, 1973, Review Copy
"A collection of essays by British, Greek and American scholars on various aspects of Greek history during the pre-independence and independence pe...
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 detailsHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon, William Smith, 1885
The Student's Gibbon; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Abridged, Incorporating the Researches of Recent Comme...
View full detailsThe Ancient History of The Egyptians, Cathaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, Charles Rollin, 1819, 8 Volumes complete
The Ancient History of The Egyptians, Cathaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, by M. Rollin (Charles Rol...
View full detailsGriechische Plastik in Archaischer und Klassischer Zeit, Friedrich Gerke, 1938
Griechische Plastik in Archaischer und Klassischer Zeit (Greek sculpture in the Archaic and Classical periods), by Friedrich Gerke. SOLD Provenance...
View full detailsPictorial Records of 1821, J. Meletopoulos, Athens 1971 - Greek War of Independence, Limited edition
Pictorial Records of 1821. Introduction by J. Meletopoulos. Layout by A. Tassos. English Translation by T. Cullen. A large format pictorial record ...
View full detailsA Short History of Modern Greece 1821-1956, Edward S. Forster, Douglas Dakin, 1958
A Short History of Modern Greece 1821-1956, by Edward S. Forster. Revised and Enlarged by Douglas Dakin. Provenance; from the library of the late W...
View full detailsFour Thousand Years Ago; A Panorama of Life in the Second Millenium B.C., Geoffrey Bibby, 1962
Four Thousand Years Ago; A Panorama of Life in the Second Millenium B.C., by Geoffrey Bibby. Published by Collins, London. 1962 first UK edition. A...
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 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 detailsGeographical Handbook Series; Greece - 3 Volumes. Restricted Naval Intelligence Division set
Geographical Handbook Series; Greece - 3 Volumes. Restricted Naval Intelligence Division set. 3 Volumes Complete. SOLD Comprises; Volume I: Physica...
View full detailsDevastation in Greece, K. Doxiadis
Devastation in Greece, by K. Doxiadis. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic an...
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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