Search Results: Titles starting with N from Setton Book Collection

Few scratches on hinge, slight discoloration of cover, mild age-browning of pages, Very little foxing. Five raised bands on spine, title, author and date gilt stamped in compartments. Aspin's classic, highly specific, detailed, interesting and actually quite readable accounts of naval and military campaigns and encounters with France, Spain, Native Americans, the new United States of America during the American Revolution, wars in India, as well as conflicts with Holland, Cuba, Napoleon, the storming of Algiers and the freeing of Christian slaves, etc.. Many coloured (aquatint) plates. 3 Page edges gilded. 784 pages. A rare and handsomely bound little book in Very Good condition.

Like new except for some slight age-darkening, some slight tanning of spine and rear top edge of dust jacket and a very little wrinkling at top of dust jacket. No damage to volume itself; a coupe of light pencil marks.Victor Louis Ménage (1920 – 2015) was a British historian, Turkologist, specialist in the early Ottoman Empire, holder of the Chair of Turkish in the University of London, and an editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam. His important monograph is one of the best studies of the evolution and origins of some of the material in Mevlânâ Mehmed Neshri's important history of the Ottoman Empire. Neshri (also Neşri) (1450 - 1520) was a relatively obscure figure apart from his role as an early Ottoman historian. His work has provided an important source for the history of the Ottomans of the time, and was drawn from a number of sources and traditions, as well as his personal experiences of the death of Mehmed ll and the subsequent Janissary riots of 1481 .Ménage identifies many of the… Read More

Some tanning of the spine and cover and a very little age-darkening, but all pages tight, clean, complete and unmarked except for a couple of neat pencil marks; bears signature of Prof. Kenneth M. Setton of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study and "Aθηναι (except with correct diacritics) 1960."A hard-to-find work on the specialized and difficult subject of good English translations of idiomatic Modern Greek.Includes examples, idiom lists, translation samples, annotated translation exercises, examination papers and some historical discussion of the Demotic/Katharevousa spectrum. Some of the discussion may seem a little dated to the modern reader, but Katharevousa runs deep in the modern language, and some knowledge of it is essential to reading a variety of authors.This is the revised reprint of 1954. Generally intended for Greek students preparing for University of Cambridge Local Examinations.