Search Results: Titles starting with A from Setton Book Collection

Although perhaps a little age-darkened, this book is tight, intact, unbumped, unfrayed, and with no stains, dents or tears. With inscription from author to Prof. K.M. Setton (1914 - 1995) of the Institute for Advanced Study.
Stephen George Chaconas (1912 - 2024) wrote a classic monograph on the intellectual phenomenon of Greek nationalism as embodied in Adamantios Koraïs, (1748 - 1833) the Smyrna-born Greek scholar and nationalist who was a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment.
Chaconas, although a history professor, spent 35 years in the CIA, including in Greece,and produced a detailed chronology and account of the founding father of the modern Greek Nation, examining the factors which contributed to Koraïs's conception of nationalism and his distaste for the Ottoman influence upon Greece, his theories and practices, and what effect he had on the evolution of the Greek national state and language.
Koraïs was a renowned scholar, observer of the French Revolution, and highly influenced by… Read More

A couple of minor tears in top edge of the dust jacket; volume itself is completely clean and unmarked except for inscription from Prof. Thompson to the distinguished medievalist Prof, Kenneth M. Setton of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (whose copy this was and whose bookplate it bears), where they were colleagues, and again in 1960/61 at The American School of Classical Studies in Athens when Prof. Setton directed the "Gennadion."
The 14th volume of the magisterial 22-volume series The Athenian Agora: Results of Excavations Conducted by The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, this definitive volume traces the history of the center of Athenian civic life from the Neolithic Period to the present. Discussed are civic, administrative, cultural, commercial and religious structures, shrines and temples. Drainage systems, roads, mills and other practical matters of life during the successive periods of occupation and activity are also discussed.

Firmin-Didot's well-known study of Alde Manuce (Aldus Manutius or Aldo Manuzio ca. 1450-1515), the famous Venetian printer, scholar, humanist, typeface inventor, Philhellene, and founder of the Aldine Press, and his involvement in printing and making available original classic Greek texts, in the context of Hellenism in Venice and elsewhere in the Renaissance. First published in Paris in 1875.Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876) was a scion of the famous Didot family of printers, publishers and booksellers. He was also a diplomat and Philhellene, and studied Greek under the famous scholar Adamantios Koraïs.647 pages.

434 pages. Solid and clean, a little age-darkening, a little foxing and a few light stains on a few early pages; binding slightly cocked, front hinge just starting.This is the second state of the first printing, because the word transposition on pg. 419, line 14 has been corrected, and the copyright date of 1921 is on the copyright page only; no other printing stated. This book was part of a variety-store lending library back when such things existed, and bears the store's bookplate on the flyleaf.Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, once for The Magnificent Ambersons (1919) and once for Alice Adams (1922). Although mostly forgotten today, he was considered America's greatest novelist during his lifetime, on a par with Mark Twain, led best-seller lists and had many of his novels made into movies, such as Alice Adams by George Stevens in 1935 and The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles in 1942,

No tears in dust jacket, all pages tight, bright and unmarked, no stamps or markings of any kind.
The only reason the book is not As New is very slight bending of top edges of dust jacket and a few age spots on page tops. 12 illustrations. 13 tables and maps.
Mary Brown Bullock is an American academic who served as president of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA from 1995 to August 1, 2006. She was the inaugural executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University and is an expert on Chinese history and medical practice in China.
She presents the fascinating history of American medicine and medical education in China from the 1920's to modern times and its influence on the teaching, practice and outcomes of Chinese medicine.

A little soiling, very slight fraying at at head and heel and tanning of spine, but binding completely tight, all pages bright and clean, no marks, tears, foxing; on glossy paper. Some corners lightly bumped. Bears signature of former owner, K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Institute of Advanced Study. Some black and white plates. French, Arabic, English, German.The "Hostage Edition" (Volume VII) of the yearbook of the prestigious Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire Orientales et Slaves of the Université libre de Bruxelles (1834-1969). Published in exile in New York because of the Nazi occupation, and dedicated to "The memory of the orientalists and slavicists victims of the invasion and persecution of the barbarians." Includes a martyrology of scholars lost to the Nazis.Includes articles on Heliodorus, medieval wall paintings in Cyprus, conversion of the Slavs, Slavic and Medieval liturgy, a hitherto untranslated Arabic account of the conquest of Cyprus, and much more.With a rather touching… Read More

3 Parts in 5 volumes. In Italian. Not an ex-library copy. Bears written name of original owner. All bindings tight, pages completely unmarked, with a little age-browning. Vol.1, parts 1&2 have a couple of bumped corners, part 1 has a couple of light spots. Vol.2, part 1 has a loose rear hinge. Vol 3, part 1 has a little crinkling of spine ( see photograph) and part 2 has a small tear at head of spine.Originally intended as an anthology for college preparatory Italian State Examinations, this 5-volume work traces Italian literature from the duecento to the first half of the novecento, from Bonaventure to Cesare Pavese, placing the creation of literary art in the context of time, place, society, worldview, philosophy, belief, and "gli spiriti e le forme" of the world in which the artists finds vision,To this end, each part of the anthology is preceded and "framed" by an historical introduction which aims to elucidate the conditions of life, customs and beliefs in which the anthologized works were… Read More