Search Results: Authors starting with C from Setton Book Collection

85 pages. In Catalan and English. Translation by the Irish poet, critic, editor and broadcaster Pearse Hutchinson (1927-2012).Corners bumped, spine of dust jacket tanned and a little soiled; spine of volume also slightly tanned, Binding tight and sound, volume unmarked.Josep Carner i Puig-Oriol (1884-1970) was a Catalan poet, diplomat, journalist, editor, playwright, linguist and nationalist who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 7 times.

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

Three volumes, near fine; this book appears unused. Eminent 19th century medieval historian, patriot and activist Henry Charles Lea's famous and exhaustive compendium of materials concerning witchcraft from the writings of the early Hebrews down to 1547. A rather amazing collection of materials, both legal and historical, concerning the origin, development, traditions, influence, stages of belief and influence, and differences by region in the practice of witchcraft, magic and sorcery. Organized and edited from Lea's notes by Arthur Charles Howland, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, who also verified Lea's citations. Inscribed gift of editor.

627 pages. A Very Good deluxe first edition of the classic 1934 Rockwell Kent-illustrated Modern English version by John Urban Nicolson.A little age-darkening, hinges just beginning to start, very light corner bumping, but binding otherwise tight and square, all pages clear and intact; no tears, marks, stamps, etc. Possible small water spot top page edge. A very solid and and intact edition of a classic.

330 pages, 165 tissue-protected illustrations, coated paper. The covering of the spine is partially detached, and there is some rubbing and bumping. The binding is tight, and all pages are intact and clean. Bears the bookplate of Kenneth M. Setton of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and Vernon Watney (presumably Vernon James Watney of the famous brewery, and thus probably from his library at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire).John Willis Clark (1833-1910), eminent Cambridge academic and polymath, wrote a groundbreaking study of the physical and technical characteristics of libraries from ancient times to about 1800, including the storage, care, protection, classification, regulation, retrieval, and provisions for the use of books, scrolls, documents, etc. The subject was, as he says in the preface, "entirely new" at the time.

Number 169 of 600 numbered copies. Small tear on top front of dust jacket, spine of dust jacket is tanned; what appears to be a water stain on back board and inside of dust jacket, a little age-related wear to dust jacket. Apart from the stain on back board, volume is in essentially new condition.

Filippi Editore's 1975 reprint of V. Coronelli's 1706 revision of his 1693 general heraldic guide to the coats of arms of nearly 900 patrician Venetian families, crowns and crests of dignitaries, insignia of ecclesiastical offices and 78 city crests of the Veneto.

Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718) was a Franciscan friar, geographer, and pioneering cartographer, who produced the first comprehensive Italian atlas (Atlante Veneto) and elevated the reputation of Italian cartography throughout Europe.

King's College London seal gilt stamped on from cover, gilt dentelles inside edges of boards, three page edges gilt. Foldout in in fine condition. 367 pages.Robert Curzon Jr., 14th Baron Zouche (1810 - 1873) was a traveler, author, briefly a member of Parliament, and a collector, if not a connoisseur, of Biblical and other ancient manuscripts. He traveled extensively in the Levant (Egypt, the Greek Islands, Jerusalem, Greece and Mont Athos) beginning in 1833. Certainly by his collecting (some said looting) a considerable number of priceless manuscripts, they have been preserved, but whether he was a gentleman traveler and bibliographer or a gentleman thief who cared little about significance and more about profit, is disputed.In any event he is an engaging writer and provides lively and interesting pictures of Arab and Greek life in a turbulent time, soon after the Greek War of Independence. Travel was arduous and dangerous at the time, and required an adventurous spirit. He wrote down the account… Read More