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[Photographs of Greece].
[Circa 1870-1880]. A series of 17 unsigned photographs of ancient Greek monuments, temples and artworks, most measuring 25 x 17 cm, some slightly smaller, some slightly larger, all mounted on leaves measuring 30x42 cm. and bound in an exquisite near contemporary (ab. 1900) oblong black half morocco binding with four raised bands, gilt spines, boards with elaborately gilt corners, gilt border and to the middle of front board a gilt vignette, gilt title (""Grekland"" i.e. Norwegian for Greece). Housed in an equally elegant half morocco boxes with with gilt spines, marbled edges, and with middle of boards corresponding to those of the binding. The box are also from ab. 1900. The box have a few traces of wear, but all in all, the set is in splendid condition.
Reference : 54193
A fine collection of photographs from Greek, fortraying Greek monuments, temples and artworks.
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Herman H. J. Lynge & Son
William Schneider
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Greece in Poetry. With paintings, drawings, photographs, and other works of art.
Athènes, Libro, 1993, in-4°, 176 pp, 98 illustrations, dont 32 planches en couleurs, notes biographiques sur les poétes, index, reliure toile éditeur, jaquette illustrée, bon état. Texte en anglais
To visit Greece according to T.S. Eliot, is “to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time”. Poetry written in Greek constitutes the longest uninterrupted literary tradition in the Western world. It is Greek poetry that has given the world the various poetic genres in which Westerners have expressed their emotions and many of their noblest thoughts to the present day. In this book, the reader is invited to discover Greece through its poetry, and to enter into the world from which have emerged those ideals of democracy, reason, and freedom that remain at the core of any civilization that hopes to endure. This invitation is extended in the form of words and images: in English-language selections from the ancient epic poems of the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”, in the lyric poetry of Sappho, in the dramatic power to “Prometheus”; in poetry from the Byzantine era; in words that flow from the pens of modern Greek poets – Solomos, Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Ritsos, and the Nobel Laureates, Seferis and Elytis – joined by the voices of poets who have written in English about Greece, Greek life and tradition – Lord Byron, Shelley, Keats, Milton, Wilde, Durrell. The ninety-eight illustrations span the rich visual history of Greece. Vase paintings and friezes, mosaics and icons, modern drawings and paintings, as well as photographs of Greece's vibrant landscape and indomitable people reinforce the power and poignancy of each selection from ”Greece in Poetry”.
