European Interest Books

First published in Berlin in 1914, Die Plastik der Ägypter (The Sculpture of the Egyptians) is one of the pioneering studies of ancient Egy...

The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

Morning of Life by Kristmann Guðmundsson is a novel set against the rugged backdrop of Icelandic life, drawing on a landscape and culture shaped by...

A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

A smart first edition copy of Nicolas Cheetham's Mediaeval Greece, published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1981 first edition. Pr...

Pleasure in Ruins by Rose Macaulay, first published in 1953, is a highly personal work of nonfiction that blends travel writing, cultural history, ...

A major scholarly work by Sir James George Frazer, expanding the comparative method that made The Golden Bough famous and applying it to th...

A deluxe limited folio facsimile of Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas's celebrated Un an à Rome et dans ses environs, issued in Rome in 1972 by Gabriele...

An impressive, large folio-sized volume which features 50 scaled, detailed line-drawing plates of Italian Renaissance architectural details. Orname...

Photographic Album of Egypt and Burma, c. 1898 – With Albumen Prints of the Nile, Pyramids, Rangoon Colonial Architecture and Burmese Rural Life. S...

Humphrey Prideaux’s The Old and New Testament Connected is a major 17th–18th century work of biblical historiography, first published in 1715–17. A...

The Atlantic Islands (1948) is Williamson’s detailed and lyrical account of life in the Faroe Islands, drawing from his wartime posting. The book b...

An attractive French publication on Ancient Boeotia, a region in central Greece, characterized by fertile plains and a rich history. It was a disti...

An original typescript thesis for a Doctor of Divinity Degree at Durham University. Almost certainly a unique document of considerable depth in ter...

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...

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...

The Antiquities of Arran with a Historical Sketch of the Island; Embracing an Account of The Sudreyjar Under the Norsemen, by John M'Arthur. Illust...

Dialogues on the Acropolis; Scholars and Experts Talk on the History, Restoration and the Acropolis Museum. This is a book based on the transcripti...

6th International Meeting for the Restoration of The Acropolis Monuments, Athens, 4-5 October 2013. Proceedings. Scientific Editors: Ch. Bouras, V....

5th International Meeting for the Restoration of The Acropolis Monuments, Athens, 4-6 October 2002. New Administration Building of the National Ban...

"In French Odysseys Olga Augustinos offers the first comprehensive treatment of French travel literature about Greece - from the mid-sixteenth-cent...

"Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theo...

"The Companion...is an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and pe...

Author's presentation copy, inscribed to half title. A very uncommon book, with Worldcat only identifying 3 institutional holdings. Voyage en Grece...