Greek Civilization Through The Eyes Of Travellers And Scholars From the Collection of Dimitris Contominas

Beautifully bound - blind tooled full leatherette, gold-stamped with paper cover label.In one of the most elegant annotated bibliographies ever created, Leonora Navari, the compiler in association with Konstantinos Staikos, a leading authority of library history and bibliographies, have created an indispensable aid to any scholar of Greek culture. This work documents the renowned collection of Dimitris Contominas whose library was built with the goal of collecting every book by scholars and visitors to Greece from the fifteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Each book is completely described bibliographically, with pagination, collations of signatures, descriptions of illustrations, and bindings. The notes are varied and include information on printing history, biographical details of the authors illustrators, the significance of the work, and its connection with the historical bias of its time as well as a listing of selected holdings. The historical introduction is bilingual in English and Greek with all the annotations in English. There are over 200 rare illustrations, most in color and multiple indexes.Navari, Leonora is the author of 'Greek Civilization Through The Eyes Of Travellers And Scholars From the Collection of Dimitris Contominas', published 2004 under ISBN 9781584561347 and ISBN 1584561343.