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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 221 pages. No dust jacket.

Cloth w/dust jacket. 4to. Cloth w/dust jacket. 540 pages. First edition. In commemoration of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, twenty outstanding scholars have set about to celebrate, with prose and illustration, 2,500 years of Greece's most famous city. This unique work, with its collection of rare drawings and photographs, explores the historical Athens from its Classical beginnings to the city's rebirth as the bustling, modern capitol of the Greek nation. The reader is invited to view many beautiful illustrations that capture Athens' timeless architecture, mosaics, wall-paintings and sculpture that have fascinated both ancient and modern travelers. Each scholar/author shares with us their special insight into the many facets of the city's long history. The text of this work is presented in seventeen well-written chapters that focus on the city's architecture, art, culture, monuments, landscape, history and urban development. These essays allow the reader to form a multi-dimensional understanding of this birthplace of Democracy and origin of Western Thought and Civilization.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Oak Knoll Press, 2006. New. Limited to 900 numbered copies of which this is one of 700 printed by hand at the Kotinos Press in Athens, Issued in conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of Oak Knoll and containing a biographical introduction by Robert Fleck. Book.

Original hardcover binding, large format, in very good condition. Text in English. Illustrated in black and white. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover, no dj. Light shelfwear to covers. Contents clean and tight. 221 pages, index, bibliography, b&w illus.

Kotinos Press (illustratore). 8vo. cloth, deckle edges, paper cover label. 52 pages. With an Introduction to the Reader by Robert D. Fleck. Limited to 900 numbered copies of which this is one of 700 printed by hand at the Kotinos Press in Athens, Greece. Issued in conjunction with the 30th Anniversary of Oak Knoll and containing a biographical introduction by its proprietor, Robert Fleck. Konstantinos Staikos has become more than an author to Oak Knoll; he is our Greek friend who represents all that we admire most in this book world of ours. In addition to being a noted architect he has found time to write many significant texts on the history of libraries, form an important book collection, purchase and save a Greek letter-press printing company (which printed this book), establish a noted publishing house and develop a web based information resource for the study of library history. In this essay you will find his view of the development of the library and the impact it has had on mankind. You will read how the book and the knowledge it transmits has affected his life. You will feel his great love of books. You will read all this in a beautifully prepared book printed and bound by hand in the oldest tradition of fine craftsmanship. cloth, deckle edges, paper cover label.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xxiv, 428 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps, plans; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First English Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Profusely illustrated. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Slight scuffing on jacket. Very light soiling on page edge.

pictorial paper-covered boards. small 4to. pictorial paper-covered boards. xx, 221, (3) pages. Limited to an edition of 5000 copies. This catalogue was created to accompany an exhibition dedicated to the history of the publishing activities of Greeks during a critical period of time beginning with the Renaissance and extending to the Enlightenment. From Venice, Florence and Rome to Paris, Geneva, Moscow, Constantinople, Leipzig, Corfu and Chios, it details the role of each of the twenty cities that emerged as major centers of the publication of Greek books. Entries for the 105 titles provide the publishing history and historical background, significance of the text and people associated with the book. With numerous photographic facsimiles of woodcuts, engravings, printer's marks, ornaments, and title pages throughout. Some illustrations, page lines and shoulder notes in sepia tones, some initial letters, headings and ornaments in red, remainder in black. Bibliography with many titles in Greek. Index.

paper-covered boards. large 8vo. paper-covered boards. 224 pages. This beautifully-printed and illustrated exhibition catalogue is a literary feast for the eye as well as for the mind. The reader is treated to a majestic array of rare, early Greek editions illustrated by their title pages and often with portraits of their authors. The exhibition was displayed at the International Conference on Greek Books held at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece in May, 2001. Mr. Staikos' extensive research into the books of the Greek Diaspora, his passion for the subject and the many editions from his personal collection make up this unique labor of love. The text is in English and Greek, printed in color. Distributed for Kotinos Editions.

small 4to. paper-covered boards, decorated endpapers. xiv, x, 301, (3) pages. Catalogue of an exhibition accompanying the International Symposium FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO REVOLUTION: RHIGAS AND HIS WORLD. Limited to 2,000 copies. Catalogue of 146 items, books printed in Greek in Greece and elsewhere in Europe from about 1750 up to the Greek War of Independence. Books for and against the Enlightenment, pro- and anti-clerical, pro- and anti-Napoleonic, dictionaries, translations, scientific and educational texts, etc., along with periodicals. Bilingual text in Greek and English. Entries deal mainly with publishing history and historical background, significance of the text, and persons associated with the book. Various photographic facsimile illustrations. Index and bibliography (the latter, however, mostly in Greek). paper-covered boards, decorated endpapers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Grey cloth cover and pages as new, no marks, tight binding.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Grey cloth cover and pages as new, no marks, tight binding.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Red cloth cover and pages are like new, no marks, solid binding.

hardcover. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. hardcover. 216 pages. VI. This extensive index on all five volumes will identify all proper names, places, and subjects covered in this comprehensive and scholarly series. Co-published with HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, The Netherlands and Kotinos Publications, Athens, Greece. Sales Rights: Worldwide. Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume for free.

hardcover, dust jacket. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 624 pages. V. "For persons interested in libraries who wish to immerse themselves in lush detail, From Petrarch to Michelangelo shines in terms of sheer visual splendor. As is the case with the other four volumes, each chapter is lavishly illustrated with an abundance of glossy full color and black-and-white photographs that depict books and manuscripts, library architecture, and historical figures. For those interested in a visual history of libraries and print culture, this volume is a treat." - RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage With the publication of Volume V, the last stage in the development of the library is revealed. Like the rest of the books in The History of the Library series, this volume is beautifully designed and fully illustrated in color. This fifth and final volume of The History of the Library in Western Civilization contains eight chapters giving a comprehensive account of the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and the effects of the revival of interest in the Greco-Roman tradition on the European cultural scene, at both the secular and religious level. The first chapter looks at the early exponents of humanism in Europe and assesses their role in the revival and promotion of classical thinking. It also describes the particular characteristics of the books in the libraries of pioneers of the humanist movement, such as Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Leonzio Pilato, and the organization of the first bilingual library of the Renaissance by Palla Strozzi in Florence. With Byzantine scholars leaving Constantinople and settling at first in Italy, bringing their fine collections of books with them, the second chapter describes the 'brain drain' from East to West in the fifteenth century. It discusses the systematic study and diffusion of the Greek language, while including brief historical accounts of three humanistic libraries: those of Novello Malatesta and Cardinal Bessarion, and the Vatican Library. Three more great libraries: those of King Matthias Corvinus, Janus Pannonius, and the Medici family are described in the third chapter, as the part played by the invention of printing in the spread of learning and the formation of libraries is explored. The fourth chapter describes the character of French humanism and the role of the scholarly circle in Paris that sowed the seeds of humanist learning, and gives the salient facts about its leading members. There is a section on the formation of the French royal library, its contents, and the persons chiefly responsible for its growth, and another dealing with the contribution made by French printers to the spread of humanism and of books in general. With a long section on Erasmus, the fifth chapter examines his study of scholarly books, his work as an editor, his edition of the New Testament, and the manuscripts that provided him with his material. Erasmus's correspondence with civic and ecclesiastical dignitaries, scholars, and printers around Europe implies the existence of a 'common library' shared by the humanists. Also in the fifth chapter is a discussion of Geneva's position as a publishing centre of books by Reformers and a refuge for those who supported Luther and Calvin's objections to the practices of the Catholic Church. The next chapter is chiefly concerned with those parts of every library that contained copies of the new Christian literature embodied in the writings of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, new translations of the Bible into the vernacular, and the many books written about religious disputes. It covers the dispersal of the monastic libraries in England and discusses the libraries of men of letters and scholars throughout Europe. Furthermore, in the seventh chapter, insight is given into the nature of the new libraries created in the late sixteenth century, containing contemporary pity works and prose and verse adaptations of medieval classics in booklet form. It concludes with a chronicle of the founding of the Oxford University library by Sir Thomas Bodley. The final chapter oversees the Renaissance library architecture and the great changes in library design that resulted from the creation of many public libraries and the opening of libraries generally to a wider public. The three-aisled library, designed by Michelozzo, is introduced, and its influence on monastic libraries in Italy, and to the libraries designed by Domenico Fontana, Jacopo Sansovino, Michelangelo, and others is explained. Sales Rights: Worldwide. Order all five volumes of The History of the library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume for free.

cloth, dust jacket. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 374 pages. This work is the first in an important, five-volume series addressing the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture. Mr. Staikos has become one of our foremost scholars on library history, writing such books as this, as well as works like "The Great Libraries," a classic in its field. This first volume reveals the rich history of the early archive libraries from Crete to the famous library of the Ptolemies in Alexandria. Through well-researched text and many full-color illustrations, the author guides his readers over 1800 years of mankind's struggle to preserve his knowledge by the written word. Co-published with HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV and Kotinos Publications. Sales Rights: worldwide. Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume for free.

hardcover. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. hardcover. 608 pages. Vol. III From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion: Imperial, Monastic, School and Private Libraries in the Byzantine World. The third volume of The History of the Library spans a period of more than a thousand years and covers an area stretching from Alexandria and Trebizond to Calabria and Sicily in the south of Italy. The author explores the end of the ancient world and the closure and destruction of its monumental libraries, and describes the formation of the great monastic libraries, such as St. Catherine's on Mount Sinai, the Monastery of Studius in Constantinople, the group of monasteries on Mount Athos and the famous library in the Monastery of St. John on Patmos. Finally, he examines all the known palace, public, university and private libraries in the whole of the Byzantine Empire, and discusses the book trade as well. Among the libraries included in this third volume are those formed in the states that emerged after the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders in 1204, such as the Empires of Nicaea and Trebizond, the Despotate of Epirus and the Kingdom of Thessalonica. In addition, special attention is given to the book collections of monasteries in the Kingdom of Cyprus and the libraries in the Despotate of the Morea, one of the last Greek bastions to hold out against the Turkish conquest, where the famous Neoplatonist philosopher Plethon taught. Altogether there are nine chapters in this volume and the text is enlivened with more than two hundred color and black-and-white illustrations covering a wide variety of subjects, such as illuminated manuscripts, engravings, maps, drawings, archaeological sites and imaginary and real library interiors. The ninth chapter deals with the architectural characteristics of Byzantine libraries from the end of Late Antiquity to the monastic libraries of the eleventh century onwards. Co-published with HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, The Netherlands and Kotinos Publications, Athens, Greece. Sales Rights: Worldwide. Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume for free.

Hardcover, dust jacket. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 364 pages. II. This second volume continues Staikos' brilliant history of the library from the early days of the Roman Republic to the "Golden Age" of Imperial Rome and the Emperor Hadrian. Extensively researched and beautifully illustrated with many rare photographs and drawings. Printed in Athens with careful attention to detail. Co-published with HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, The Netherlands and Kotinos Publications, Athens, Greece. Sales Rights: Worldwide. Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume for free.

hardcover, dust jacket. 6.75 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 304 pages. This publication examines the papyrus books collected by Plato himself, a habit which began when he was still 'studying' under Socrates and continued throughout his years of teaching in the Academy. The book deals extensively with the works of the Ionian and Eleatic Natural Philosophers, as well as of the Pythagoreans, which informed the composition of Plato's Dialogues. Furthermore, through this process the fabric of Sophistic literature composed at Athens is unfolded and the pioneers who introduced the study of Mathematics in the Academy are discussed in brief. Finally, a large chapter in the book deals with the architecture of the Academy, including topographical surveys and scale plans which reveal interesting facts about the ideas that went into its design, and the use of its facilities. Available in Europe from Brill.

6.5" x 9.5" Half faux leather/printed paper-covered boards, 710 pages. Printed letterpress in an edition limited to 1000 copies. In May of 2001, an International Congress on the History of Greek Printing was held in Delphi, Greece where leading scholars presented over 40 papers pertaining to dissemination of the Greek language via manuscripts, books and documents. The collection of essays compiled in this book is the publication of these learned papers. A sample of essays within the text includes the following: "The First Use of Greek Type in Spain, France, the Low Countries and England" by Dennis E. Rhodes; "Andreas Kounadis and the Nicolini da Sabbio" by Evro Layton; "Libri Greci Impressi da Melchiorre Sessa Solo e in Societa con Pietro di Ravini (1521-1555)" by Silvia Curi Nicolardi; "Greek Books in Venice" by Marino Zorzi; "Controversial Problems Regarding the Printing Press of Moschopolis" by Max Demeter Peyfuss; "Echi e Riflessi dell'Illuminismo Veneto nella Letteratura Scientifica del Tardo Settecento Eptanesio" by Maria Laura Soppelsa; and "British Collections of Seventeenth-Century Greek Liturgical Books" by Michael Jeffreys. This illustrated and handsomely bound volume is one of the best scholarly works on the diaspora of the Greek written word. The essays appear in a broad variety of languages, and many are printed in Greek. There is a useful appendix that contains abstracts in English for all 30 of the essays in Greek. It should be on the book shelf of all scholars of Greek culture and anyone interested in early books in the West. Co-published with Kotinos Publications, Athens Greece. Half faux leather/printed paper-covered boards.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Text in Greek and English. Limited edition of 2000 copies. Catalogue of an exhibition accompanying the International Symposium "From Enlightenment to Revolution: Rhigas and His World". Illustrations are black/white. Due to size of book, ships within United States only, and only by media rate mail. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 301 pp.

Condizione: new.

hardcover, dust jacket. 9.5 x 13 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 600 pages. First edition in English, second impression. This monumental work chronicles the development of the library from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. Beginning with the clay-tablet libraries of the ancient Sumerian and Assyro-Babylonian empires, to those inspired by the Italian Renaissance, Mr. Staikos reveals the majesty of Western literature within these great depositories of human knowledge. Using over 400 illustrations [130 in full color] the reader is treated to hundreds of beautifully photographed interiors of these legendary libraries and their rare treasures. Chapter by chapter, the stories of the fabled libraries of Alexandria, Greece and Rome unfold like an unbroken chain, connecting the wisdom of the ancients to the magnificent libraries of the European Renaissance. The author also shares with us the very personal stories of the founders and the un-sung librarians, who struggled during wars and countless disasters to preserve and protect their precious holdings. The chapters on the contributions of the Byzantine and Greek monastic libraries, the foundation of the Western Renaissance, are especially revealing. Mr. Staikos' original scholarship and well-written prose makes a very readable work of surprising originality. He has created a literary masterpiece that captures the rich heritage of one of man's greatest achievements. This is a very special, large-format volume no bibliophile will want to be without. Co-published with The British Library.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library with hinge repair, with mylar sleeve.

Cloth. Jacket has a short closed edge tear. Fine in a near fine dustjacket.; 8vo.

Hardcover. Grey cloth with white title plate and black lettering; darker grey cloth spine with black lettering; xxiv, 525 pp. with several color and mostly duo-tone illustrations throughout. Text in English. With a prefatory essay by Staikos about the philosophy of the book collection; sections on books of the Renaissance (Humanism), Neohellenic Literature, Liturgical Books, Theology and the Enlightenment; followed by Bibliographical Clarifications, International and Greek and indeces of proper names, authors, editors, translators, academies, libraries, universities, locations/city names, printers and more. VG interior, but spine is broken, spine cloth is torn and back cover cloth is wrinkled.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Laminated. Catalogue of Greece guest of honour at the 53rd Frankfurt Book Fair 2001.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover, printed boards, as issued. Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ex- library book with stamps/ stickers.