Rare books from Pelargos Bookstore, MBS

With a preface by Théophile Homolle. Translated from the French by Charles Frederic Hardy. First english language edition. 132 pp.+ 40 full-page photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 86 illustrations in the text. 39x31 cm. Éditions d'Art Fred. Boissonnas, Genève, 1920. There are printed of this work on fine hand-made paper, prepared specially for this edition, 300 copies, of which this copy is No. 15. (Additional postage due to heavy weight) --- François 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 in the Geneva school of Fine Arts. From their first journey in 1903 until 1920, carrying a baggage of stereotypes on Greece passed on by travellers of the previous centuries, they toured and took photographs everywhere, from Epirus to the Peloponnese and from Ithaca to Olympus and… Read More

A Delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. With illustrations of steel and wood, by eminent American artists. Edited by William Cullen Bryant. 2 Vols. 33x26 cm. Vol.I: 568 pp.+ 25 full-page engravings on steel h.t. Vol.II: vi+576 pp.+25 full-page engravings on steel h.t. Numerous engravings in-text. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872-1874.
--- Contemporary full leather binding with gilt letters and decoration. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very tight binding, repaired by professional bookbinder. Previous owner name written on the first two pages of each volume. Some foxing, sometimes affecting engravings. A few pages have traces of water (more photos available upon request - additional postage due to heavy weight).
--- "Picturesque America was a conspicuous presence in the popular culture of the United States in the post-Civil War years. First published as a magazine… Read More

Notis Johannis Heskin, Ex Aede Christi. E Typographeo Clarendoniano, Oxonii, 1748. 21,3x13,5 cm.
--- Latin and greek text. Leather binding. Hinges are very sensitive. Wear to the covers (see photo). Previous owner name written on first blank page and the stamp of a library inside front cover. Otherwise pages bright and clean. Unmarked. No foxing.
--- Bion was a Greek bucolic poet, a native of the city os Smyrna and flourished about 100 BC. Most of his work is lost. There remain 17 fragments (preserved in ancient anthologies) and the "Epitaph of Adonis", a mythological poem on the death of Adonis and the lament of Aphrodite (preserved in several late medieval manuscripts of bucolic poetry). Some of the fragments show the pastoral themes that were typical of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, while others attest the broader thematic interpretation of the bucolic form that prevailed in the later Hellenistic period.
Moschus flourished circa 150 B.C. He was a Greek bucolic poet of the school of Theocritus. He… Read More

188 pp. 5,2x4,5 cm. With 9 full-page engravings in-text. Printed by H. Mozley, Gainsborough, 1815.
--- Leather bound (modern binding). Gilt lettering on spine. Trace of tape on first engraving. A note written on the last two blank pages, before endpapers. Otherwise, pages are clean.

Illustrations en couleurs par Auguste Leroux. 78 pp. 26x19 cm. Société des Amis du Livre Moderne, Paris, 1912 // Tirage à 150 exemplaires. En feuillets.
--- One of 150 copies printed. Loose leaves in an illustrated envelope, which has wear on spine and edges. Pages bright and clean. Richly illustrated (colour ills.). Text in french.

L'Univers - Histoire et description de tous les peuples. iv+644 pp.+ 31 gravures h.t. (4 cartes et 27 gravures). 21,9x13,6 cm. Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, 1881.
--- Text in french. Cloth-bound. Some wear to the edges of the spine. Some pages are being repaired with tape. Written name on first blank page. No missing pages, text is clean. Folding map of Greece and engravings in very good condition, without foxing.
--- "J'ai réuni dans ce volume, sous le nom d'Iles de la Grèce, toutes les îles de la Méditerrannée orientale, depuis Chypre jusqu'à Corfou, de l'est à l'ouest, et depuis les îles des Princes jusqu'à celle de Candie, dans la direction du nord au sud (...)"

17 photographies et 6 esquisses d'un peintre nommé Kleanthis. Matériel de 75 M/M de campagne et de montagne à tir rapide - Système "Schneider" et "Schneider - Danglis". 44,5x30,5 cm.
--- Text in french. Three-quarter leather binding. 17 b&w photos + 6 sketches by Kleanthis (dogfight, possibly the greek cruiser Averof, etc.)

D' après des documents inédits. Tome premier: xviii+276 pp. Tome second: 392 pp. 25,2x16,5 cm. Chez Jules Renouard et Cie, Libraires, Paris, 1854.
Mixtes techniques d'illustration. Un des premiers livres illustrés par la photographie, contenant deux calotypes sur papier fin monté. Il contient 7 pp. de fac-similé reproduisant une description d'Athènes par un anonyme vers 1460 + 24 gravures h.t. et quelques dans le texte, sur bois, cuivre ou lithographiées, dont plusieurs repliées, avec une eau-forte originale de Ch. Méryon représentant le couvent des Capucines à Athènes, spécialement gravée pour cet ouvrage.
--- Half-leather (private binding, morocco leather), marbled endpapers. Light edgewear. Occasianal foxing. Tight binding, original paper covers are included. Pages clean of underlinings or notes. Very impressive engravings, a rare edition. (More photos are available)
--- Simon Joseph Léon Emmanuel, Marquis de Laborde (1807-1869) was a French archaeologist and politician. At the… Read More

1ère édition. 121 pp.+40 ills. h.t. 33,5x25,5 cm. Paris, 1932. Édition numérotée, N.296/400.
--- Full leather (private binding). Spine in six compartments, gilt lettering to second and fourth. Light edgewear. Pages bright and clean. Very tight binding. 32 b&w and 8 colour illustrations (photographs and engravings) h.t. (More photos are available)
--- The French historian and journalist René Puaux (1878-1936) worked for the internationally renowned Parisian newspaper "Le Temps" and was a fervent supporter and advocate of the Greek cause during the Balkan Wars. His reports from the front were collected in two publications, "Dans les Balkans" 1912-13, and "La malhereuse Epire", which was translated into Greek. In 1919 he was sent as correspondent to Asia Minor and on his return journey crossed Thrace and reached Mesolongi. In all he made seven trips to Greece, a country he loved passionately.
In this edition (which was also published in Greek in 1995), he records in an engaging and enthusiastic… Read More

Album Odysséen. Photographies de Fred. Boissonnas. 1ère édition. 8 pp. + 265 héliogravures + 1 folding map h.t. 26,4x22,5 cm. Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1933.
--- (...) Les photographies qui sont reproduites dans ce volume sont l'oeuvre de Frédéric Boissonnas. C'est avec lui qu'au printemps de 1912, songeant à donner une nouvelle édition de ses Phéniciens et l'Odyssée, Victor Bérard entreprit de refaire le périple d'Ulysse dont, par une patiente étude, il s'était efforcé d'identifier toutes les étapes. Dans cette Méditerranée où rien ne change, il put retrouver intacts les sites et les paysages qui rendaient tout leur sens aux descriptions du Poète. (...)
Jean Bérard
--- Text in french. Captions in ancient greek, translated in french. A spot on front cover. Otherwise the book is fine.

Homeri Opera graece et latine. Graeca ad principem H. Stephani, ut & ad primam omnium Demetrii Chalcocondylae editionem... Curante Jo. Henr. Lederlino, Stephano Berglero. 619 pp + Index in Iliadem + one engraving and one engraved map (Ab. Ortelii) h.t.. 14,7x8 cm. Ex Officina Wetsteniana, Amstelaedami, 1707.
--- The Iliad of Homer (complete). Leather binding (pigskin), very tight. Name written on frontispiece. No foxing. Text in ancient greek and latin. Introduction and Index in latin.

Graece & Latine una cum Prognosticis, Prorrheticis, Coacis, & aliis decem eiusdem opusculis, Aphoristicabrevitate conscriptis. Pleraque ex interpretatione Iohannis Heurnii Ultraiectini Iterata editio, commodior. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex officina Iohannis Maire, 1627. 636 pp. 13,5 x 8 cm. --- Text in ancient greek and latin. Parchment binding, very tight, with light wear. Occasional light foxing. Previous owner's names written on front endpaper and on the first blank pages. Among them, the name of the German doctor Heinrich Landerer (1814-1877). The date of the edition is 1627, but in front cover, under the acronym PSK, is written 1632. The original form of the famous Hippocratic Oath on page 454.

By F. E. A. Gasc. 618 pp. Book: 2,8x2 cm. Box: 3,1x2,6 cm. David Bryce and Son, Glasgow, n.d. (c.1890-1900)
--- Soft leather binding, gilt lettering. Some wear at the bottom of the spine and a mark at the cover from the magnifying glass. At the back cover, with gilt lettering, is written: Savon Pears' Soap. Original metal box, with embossed decoration, magnifying glass window and a loop at the top.

Traduit de l'espagnol par Florian. Ouvrage posthume avec figures. Six tomes reliés en trois. 13,3x8,5 cm. Briand, Libraire, Paris, 1810.
--- Three-quarter contemporary leather binding + marbled covers. Gilt lettering on spine, some edgewear. Tight binding, pages bright and clean, no foxing.

455 pp.+ 1 plate h.t. 6,5x4,5 cm. G. Barbèra, Editore, Firenze, 1919.
--- Text in Italian. The book is complete. Full leather contemporary binding, with rich gold decoration on covers and spine. Some edgewear. All edges red – discolouration on top-edges. Some notes on endpapers – all other pages are bright and clean.