Rare books from Mary Louise Bryan/Paralos Gallery

Greece: Paris "Imprimerie de Dondey-Dupré, Rue St Louis, No 46, Au Marais." 1825-37. Coloured lithograph of the Olympieion with the Acropolis from Louis Dupré's " Voyage â Athènes et â Constantinople...". Original hand colour; verso blank; blind stamp of Dupré as issued. The view shows the Temple of Olympian Zeus, with the Acropolis in the background; from this angle it is possible to see part of the town , the Plaka district, on the Acropolis slopes. Interestingly Dupré illustrates a gathering of Turks beside the temple seemingly being addressed by an Imam, suggesting that the space was used as an open air mosque. Bright & clean; slight crease causing lightening of the colour of the sky in the middle of the view. Louis Dupré [1789-1837]. A pupil of Jacques-Louis David in Paris, Louis Dupré became resident in Rome and was appointed official painter to the prince Jerome Bonaparte, in 1811. In 1819 he traveled to Greece. He was received by the French consul Fauvel in Athens and… Read More

Greece: London Rodwell & Martin. 1821. Aquatint view of the Agora or Bazar of Athens from Dodwell's "Views in Greece". Original hand colour, The lively scene shows the weekly market of Athens where Greeks, Turks and Albanians mingle together, along with peasants and farmers from the surrounding countryside. Dodwell gives a full description of the prominent figures portrayed, In the coffee house where a freed slave stands leaning by a tree, the proprieter brings coffee to the Disdar or Govenor of the castle, dressed in scarlet, seateds with a Turkish Agha; standingon the step is the Vaivode or Governor of Salamis, son of Spiridon Logothetis [the late English agent], he is meeting a Greek Baratario, designated by his headgear or turban [also worn by Greek physicians]; Three turkish women stand in the centre in long white robes; to the left the Turk in green is wearing the sacred colour indicating he has performed the Hajj or pilgrimmage to Mecca. In the background, the Acropolis with the cave of… Read More

Europe: Amsterdam Apud Guiljelmum et Joahannem Blaeu. 1647. Original coloured, copper engraved map of the River Danube. from volume 1 of Joan Blaeu's "Le theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas. " 2 Double pages joined; folio; blank verso. The large map shows the course of the Danube from source to sea, with its tributaries. The large decorative title cartouche shows the Austrian emperor Ferdinand III and the Turkish sultan.Decorative vignette to lower left corner surrounding scale with allegorical figures of the river and its tributaries. [ see also item 2215 :The Rhine]. Original colour; folded; creases to left above vignette; light toning, darker to lower left corner; paint splodge above allegorical vignette ; a few spots within image; candle wax drops to verso causing slight discolouration. Willem Janszoon Blaeu [1571- 1668] had set up the business in Amsterdam 1596 following studies with the famous astonomer Tycho Brahe. In 1630 Willhem published his first atlas "Atlas Appendix", having… Read More

Atlas & Travel Books: Paris Chez Artus Betrand, rue Hautfeuille,23. Amiot, librairie, rue de la Paix,6. L'Auteur, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin,3. 1839. Lge 8vo.[π8] 1-186 192. Light dampstain to upper corner throughout; Some light foxing. Contemporary quarter calf by Arnaud; gilt spine; rear upper corner damaged..marbled endpapers. Folding engraved map showing course of the voyage, & 24 engraved plates/views after drawings by Marchebeus. Numerous vignette engravings within letterpress. Marchebeus, who refers to himself as an architect to the govenment, has written an account of the first steamer cruise to the Levant which took place April-August 1833. The work is dedicated to King Otto 1st of Greece, whose brother Crown Prince Maximillian of Bavaria was one of the passengers. The plates are after drawings made by Marchebeus. and include views of Marseille, Genoa & Malta and in Scicily: Messina Catania, Syracuse & Palermo; in Greece: Navarino, Nafplion, Hydra, Ægina Corinth, Athens (3)… Read More

Greece: London Rodwell & Martin. 1821. Aquatint view of Thermopylæ from the Deluxe edition of Dodwell's "Views in Greece". Original hand colour, mounted on card with title caption to verso The view shows the pass of Thermopylæ with the plain down to the sea, on the left is Mount Knemis and also Mount Œta, Thermopylae means "hot gates" in Greek and the name is related with its hot sulphur springs. This is also the place of cavernous entrances to Hades in mythology. Thermopylae is primarily known for the battle that took place there between the Greek forces including the Spartans and the Persian forces. It is the only land route large enough to bear any significant traffic between Lokris and Thessaly and thus was the site of several battles.. Dodwell states that the two figures are"attendants of the author, for as the defiles of Thermopylæ are sometimes infested with banditti ,it was necssary to be well prepared." Bright and clean. Edward Dodwell (1767 1832) was an Irish painter,… Read More

Greece: Augsburg, Lotter Conrad Tobias 1772. Copper engraved map of Crete with View of Iraklion after Seutter from Lotters "Atlas Novus." . Original old colour; verso blank The map shows the island of Crete, taken from the Homann map of 1712 { Zacharakis 1641/1879] with the a long text beside the newly emerged island at Santorini following the volcanic eruption of 25th May 1707: "In 1707, activity began again, the small when two cones appeared. They were called Aspronisi and Macronesi. Those were united in the course of the following five years by an island which formed between Palea and Small Kameni, much larger and higher then either and was called Nea (New) Kameni .This island, is the youngest island in Greece."[Santorini Living ] Below is a panaromic view of Iraklion, black & white as issued. The map was first published by Lotter's father-in-law Matthaüs Seutter in his "Atlas Novus" in 1728 who took the lower part of Homann's map re-engraved the cartouche and text and added the scale to the… Read More

Greece: Cologne G von Kempen 1588. Copper engraved view of Chios from the fourth volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitas Orbis Terrarum. " Latin text to verso; black & white as issued. The engraving shows the port and capital of Chios, seen from the east in a bird's-eye view. The town is represented as divided into the strongly fortified Byzantine Kastro and the town itself, which is defended on the landward side by massive watchtowers with a moat and a drawbridge. Windmills line the coast; A canon fire s out to sea from a tower on the sea wall; numerous ships and galleys. Decorative title cartouche The city is often locally referred to as "Chora" (Χώρα; literally meaning "town") or "Kastro" (Κάστρο) to distinguish it from the entirety of the island with which it shares the name. Originally the site of an ancient settlement, the town was first built at the north side of a natural harbour. By the 16th century, the walled town had been further fortified by successive rulers into a massive… Read More

Classical Authors: Haganoae Iohannem Secerium March 1530. [4], 106 Bl ; 142. 2° Woodcut initials and headpieces. Titles preceded by vine-ornament Text in Greek and Latin; each part separately foliated. Editio princeps of the first 5 books, the only fully preserved portion of Polybius's history of the rise of the Roman empire from 220 to 146 B.C.; books 6-40 survive in fragmentary form. The revival of interest in the study of Polybius was due to Pope Nicholas V (1447-1455), the founder of the Vatican Library. Soon after his election he seems to have urged Cardinal Perotti to undertake a Latin translation of the five books then known to exist. On the 3d of January 1454 the Pope writes again to Perotti thanking him for the third book; and in a letter to Torelli, dated 13th November 1453, Perotti says that he had finished his translation of Polybius in the preceding September. This translation was first printed in 1473. The Greek text was not printed till this edition in 1530, the first five books in… Read More

Philhellenic: Paris "Imprimerie de Dondey-Dupré, Rue St Louis, No 46, Au Marais." 1825-37. Coloured lithograph of the Keeper of the Seals from Louis Dupré's " Voyage â Athènes et â Constantinople...". Original hand colour; verso blank; blind stamp of Dupré as issued. The image shows Ali Pacha's secretary, the "keeper of the seals" sitting before a Turkish tombstone with part of the city of Joannina behind. His coat is trimmed with fur, an indication of his high rank, at his belt two pistols emerge. The "Garde des Sceaux " was the second in command under Ali. The Keeper of the Seals was in charge of the law and seeing it was obeyed. Removed from a frame; Colours bright; even toning; some light spotting to margins. Louis Dupré [1789-1837]. A pupil of Jacques-Louis David in Paris, Louis Dupré became resident in Rome and was appointed official painter to the prince Jerome Bonaparte, in 1811. In 1819, Louis Dupré took a six-month tour of Greece and Turkey, accompanied by three… Read More

Classical Authors: Oxonii- Oxford E Theatro Sheldoniano 1697. Portrait, [17], pp497 (56,59-487) [42] [4] pp77 [1] Folio. The first English edition of the Greek text edited by Richard West & Robert Welsted, fellows of Magdalen College. Engraved portrait of Pindar by M. Burghers. facing the Title page. Dedication to the Marquess of Tavistock signed by the editors. Preface. Life of Pindar in Latin by Thomas Magister. Chronology of the Olympiads composed by the Bishop of Litchfield. Passages from various Greek Classical authors on Pindar including a fragment from Phlegon Trallianos Περί του Ολυμπιον, and notes from Suidas Parallel Greek and Latin text, with a Latin prose paraphrase, Latin notes and scholia in Greek printed below. After the Index is the Latin verse translation by Nicolas Le Sueur (1545-1594) Pindari Opera Omnia viz Olympia. Pythis, Nemea,& Isthmia . Latino carmine reditt per Nicolaum Sudorium in curia Parisiensis Inquisitionum Præsidem Dibdin calls it "a… Read More

Classical Authors: Norimbergae & Paris Ex officiana Christiani de Launoy.; Chez Vincent , Impremieur-Libraire, rue S,Severin à l'Ange. 1761-2. Copper engraved frontispiece; [9] pp.158 ; pp.57. Folio. General Title; separate title for Le general d'armée par Onosander, ouvrage trad. du Grec par M. le Baron de Zur-Lauben. [Paris, Vincent, 1757]. 2 volumes bound in 1. Full calf; [worn] A new edition of Onosander, [ the Editio Princeps was published in 1599 ( see item 2990) and then re issued with additional notes in 1600 and 1619] . The text is bound with the French translation by the Baron De Zur- Luaben. Graesse describes it as the best edition. Brunet states "On trouve dans cette édition des notes inédites de Jos.Scaliger et d'Is.Vossius, mais celles de Rigault n'y sont pas entières." [We find in this edition unpublished notes of Jos.Scaliger and Is.Vossius, but those of Rigault are not whole]. Onasander's Strategikos is one of the most important treatises on ancient military matters and… Read More

Classical Authors: Genevæ- Geneva/ Lugduni- Lyon Euststhium Vignon / Bartholemæum Vincentium. 1577. [4] map[8] pp109 [12.]Blank; &: [8][10] pp109 [2][6]. First separate edition of works attributed to Arrian of Nicodemia which appeared simultaneously at Geneva and Lyons in 1577 with the translation and commentary of Johann Wilhem Stucki. This example has the Geneva imprint of the Ponti Euxini and the Lyons imprint of the Maris Erythræi. The texts of both works were first published by Froben in 1533 in the anthology Arriani & Hannonis periplus. Plutarchus de fluminibus & montibus. Strabonis epitome. The woodcut map of the Black Sea is the first printed map of the sea, it is decorated with ships, monsters and mermen. The Peripilus Ponti Euxini takes the form of a letter, from Arrian to the Emperor Hadrian in Rome, who was particularly attached to geographical research and had visited in person a large portion of his extensive dominions. It contains an accurate topographical survey of the… Read More

Classical Authors: [Geneva]. excudebat Henricus Stephanus. 1581. Small 4to. pp. [viii], 182, [ii], 79, [i]. (editio princeps of Zosimus.) With woodcut Estienne device to title page. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Calf re-backed; 6 raised bands; gilt tooling matched to that of original boards red title label. Exlibris "Charlton Byam Wollaston "to front paste down; marbled end papers. Described by Dibdin as 'an elegant, rare and critical edition', with notes and textual revisions by Henri Estienne. The Latin translation is Politian's, and that accompanying Zosimus is by Leunclavius. This is the first edition of any part of Zosimus, although Estienne only printed the first two books. The volume was dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney. "For this edition of Herodian … Estienne has thoroughly revised, and made additions to, the popular Latin translation of Angelo Poliziano; he prints his corrections, additions, and textual comments in the margins. The second part consists of the editio princeps of the… Read More

Atlas & Travel Books: Paris chez Desray, Libraire, rue haute-Feuille, No4 de l'Imprimerie de Didot le Jeune. 1817. 7 Volumes Octavo; [clii] 367; Half title, volume title [ii] 517 (518); [vi. including titles],496; [vi. including titles] 507 (508); [vi. including titles] 495 (496); half title, volume title, table of contents,454; [vi. including titles]496. & Atlas in Folio pp 60+1. with 41 copper engraved plates. 5th edition Text uncut. Blue boards with gilt to spines. A matching set of the 1817, 5th edition of Barthelemy's famous Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grèce, first published in 1787. The atlas volume in large folio includes the large folding map Carte Générale de la Grèce et d'une grande partie de ses colonies.. by Barbie de Bocage, for the first time. Originally intended to appear in the edition of An VII [1798-9] as the text of the edition mentions however there were "difficulties du libraire" as Bocage mentions in his Addition critique des cartes de l'Ancienne Grèce [1811]… Read More

Atlas & Travel Books: Genève Fred. Boissonas & Cie; Impremerie A. Kundig 1936. 2nd Edition large Quarto. [2] pp140 [2]. and 41 numbered plates [40 photogravures and 1 map(printed in colour)] with 85 photogravures within text. Contemporary full vellum gilt, original wrappers bound in. Text in French Numbered 231 of an unspecified limited edition on strong vélin paper. Head and tail pieces in red by M. R. Schlemmer Boissonas' beautiful work on Greece was first published in a limited edition of 230 in 1910 in a large elephant folio. Small chip to spine;water ring and rust stain to back board. Generally all plates clean, some occasional spottingto text. 41 numbered plates [ photogravures and map in colour] and 85 photogravures within text. Frédéric Boissonnas, nicknamed Fred (1858-1946) came from a Swiss family of photographers. An enthusiastic trekker, he started out on his journey from Geneve together with his inseparable friend and travel companion, Greek scholar Daniel Baud-Bovy, rector… Read More