Search Results: Authors starting with V from Setton Book Collection

A little soiling, very slight fraying at at head and heel and tanning of spine, but binding completely tight, all pages bright and clean, no marks, tears, foxing; on glossy paper. Some corners lightly bumped. Bears signature of former owner, K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Institute of Advanced Study. Some black and white plates. French, Arabic, English, German.The "Hostage Edition" (Volume VII) of the yearbook of the prestigious Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves of the Université libre de Bruxelles (1834-1969). Published in exile in New York because of the Nazi occupation, and dedicated to "The memory of the orientalists and slavicists victims of the invasion and persecution of the barbarians." Includes a martyrology of scholars lost to the Nazis.Includes articles on Heliodorus, medieval wall paintings in Cyprus, conversion of the Slavs, Slavic and Medieval liturgy, a hitherto untranslated Arabic account of the conquest of Cyprus, and much more.With a rather touching… Read More

In Catalan.
Cardboard boards, tanned spine, some corner-bumping and light soling of boards, external hinges cracked, internal sound; a little age-darkening, but all pages intact, clean and unmarked. Backstrip is beginning to separate, but the binding is sound. Numerous black and white photographic tissue-protected illustrations.
Founded in 1907 by the eminent Catalan nationalist, politician, author and lawyer Enric Prat de la Riba i Sarrà (1870 – 1917), the prestigious Institute for Catalan Studies publishes and fosters research in a number of fields, such as linguistics, history, sociology, philology, etc., primarily in the humanities and social sciences. It promotes all aspects of Catalan language, culture and identity.
This hard-to-find volume details the first 25 years of the Institute and the contributions of prominent Catalan nationalists, writers and scholars.

An eclectic, unique and serendipitous collection of nearly 50 years (generally late 1940's - early 1990's) of travel-related materials in English, French, German, Italian and Greek: guides, booklets, brochures and books, with some substantial items such as Florence by Pierre Gauthiez (Boston, The Travel Lovers Library, Hale, Cushman & Flint, no date, prob. 1927. Good -; binding intact and tight, tear near heel of spine); Muirhead's England (London, Blue Guides; Ernest Benn Ltd 1957 Very Good); Nagel's Encyclopedia Guide to Poland (Geneva, Nagel Publishers, 1974, Very Good +). In softcover: Onieva's 1957 guide to The Prado, the Verdesi 1950 guide to Rome, Bartolini & Fiumi's Florence and its Surroundings for 1950, Filippo Rossi's guide to the Museum of the Bargello from 1934. (All Good +.)
Collection includes some standard guidebooks like Guides Michelin, but mostly locally produced or specialty guides; includes some relatively scholarly or professional materials (booklets, pamphlets) concerning… Read More

51 pages, 15 woodcuts, 2 fold-out maps (Venice, 9 pages, 65" long; Jerusalem, 6 1/2 pages, 50" long) and 6 pages of text in facsimile. Dust jacket reproduction of Reuwich's woodcut map of Civitas Iherusalem.
First edition of Guido Pressler's 1961 facsimile of Bernhard von Breydenbach's (1440–1497) famous 1486 account in German of his pilgrimage from Venice to the Holy Land and Egypt form April of 1483 to January 1484, appearing first as Peregrinatio in terram sanctam.
Von Breydenbach was accompanied by Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, and Reuwich's woodcut fold-out maps (the first in the West and the first accurate topographical representation of Jerusalem), drawings and reproductions of Arabic letters represented a major development in the art of printing and in disseminating geographical information. This book is "one of the seminal books pf early printing." (Jeffrey Smith, UT Austin)

The binding is sound but brittle; one page has become detached, and stitching shows here and there, but all pages are intact and unmarked, with some age browning; head and heel of spine somewhat frayed; two maps, 17 illustrations. There is a rather unfortunate inscription from unknown to the Medievalist Prof. John La Mont (1902-1949), an expert on Cyprus, on the flyleaf. Sticker from the Acorn Bookshop in Cincinnati, where Von Löher spent seven months and published.After the Russo-Turkish War, the British Empire took over administration of Cyprus in 1878, and this occasioned much interest in Cyprus in the English-speaking world. Mrs. Joyner thus translated and expanded Franz Von Löher's Cypern Reiseberichte über Natur und Landschaft, Volk und Geschichte (Stuttgart 1878).Von Löher (1818-1892) was an historian, author, jurist and "48er" revolutionary who traveled extensively in the United states and the eastern Mediterranean.This is more of a travelogue than R. Hamilton Lang's Cyprus, and gives… Read More