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SONNINI DE MANONCOURT, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert. Voyage dans la Haute et Basse Égypte… Collection de Planches, Paris, F. Buisson, An VII [=1799].
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Charles Nicolas Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), was a French nobleman and naturalist. He was educated in a Jesuit school and then studied…
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REISINGER, Ernst. Griechenland Schilderungen deutscher Reisender In zweiter, veränderter Auflage herausgegeben. Mit 90 Bildtafeln, davon 62 nach Aufnahmen der Preussischen Messbildanstalt, Leipsig, Insel-Verlag, 1923.
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In the introduction to this album, first published in 1916, the author,Ernst Reisinger, states his intention of offering a work that is not strictly a…
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BOETTICHER, Adolf. Die Akropolis von Athen nach den Berichten der Alten und den neusten Erforschungen. Mit 132 Textfiguren und 36 Tafeln, Berlin, Julius Springer, 1888.
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Adolf Boetticher (1842-1901), architect, art critic and archaeologist, was born in Blumberg (Barnim) and studied in Berlin. From 1875 to 1877 he…
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WILLOUGHBY, Vera. A Vision of Greece described and painted by Vera Willoughby, London, Philip Allan, 1925.
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The painter Vera Willoughby (1870-1939) was born in Hungary and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in Bloomsbury, Central London. She is famous…
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VAN DEN BRULE, Alfred. L’Orient Hellène. Grèce-Crète-Macédoine, Paris, Félix Juven [1907].
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This publication comprises three chapters on Greece and the political situation in the country at the beginning of the twentieth century. The first…
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WALPOLE, Robert (ed.). Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey; edited from Manuscript Journals, by Robert Walpole, M.A. The Second Edition, London, for Longman, Hurst…, 1818.
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Early nineteenth-century travellers had devoted themselves to studying ancient and contemporary Greece, in the period before the War of Independence.…
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POUQUEVILLE, François-Charles-Hugues-Laurent. Grèce. Paris, Firmin Didot, MDCCCXXXV [=1835].
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François-Charles-Hugues-Laurent Pouqueville (1770-1838) was a French physician, diplomat, writer, and ardent Philhellene. He was born in Normandy. He…
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CURZON, Robert, Baron Zouche. Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, London, George Newnes, 1897.
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Robert Curzon, 14th Baron of Zouche (1810-1873) travelled to Egypt and the Holy Land in 1833, and to Meteora and Mount Athos in 1837. In his first…
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INWOOD, Henry William. The Erechtheion at Athens. Fragments of Athenian Architecture and a few Remains in Attica Megara and Epirus ..., London, W. Nicol for J. Carpenter & Son, ..., MDCCCXXVII [=1827]. .
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Henry William Inwood (1794-1843) was a British architect, archaeologist and author. He was the eldest son of architect William Inwood, who is known…
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ARGENTI, Philip P. The Costumes of Chios. Their Development from the XVth to the XXth Century, London, B.T. Batsford [1953].
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Philip Argenti (1891-1974) was born in Marseilles, into an old Chiot family of Genoese descent. Son of benefactor Pantelis Argenti, who founded the…
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