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• Albrecht (Peter-Jürgen), † 20-09-1999,
North Cyprus, a Travel Book.
(Also available in German: Nord Zypern, Ein Reisebuch. Havellia-Verlag,
Berlin). Highly recommended by the webmaster. Havellia-Publishing,
London 1994.
• Amadi (Francesco), Cronaca
di Cipro, Arch. Makarios III Foundation,
Nicosia, 1999, Italian language only, pp.534, h/b.
• Andrews (Allen),
Kings & Queens of
Scotland & England - Marshall
Cavendish 1986.
• Appleby (John T.), (ed.), 1963, The
chronicle of Richard of Devizes at the time of King Richard the first,
Thomas Nelson and Sons, London.
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• BAKER (Sir S.) – Cyprus
as I saw it in 1879. London, 1879.
8vo, engraved plate of Larnaca, (42 pages of advertisement at end),
publisher’s pictorial cloth gilt. The author spent most of 1879
exploring Cyprus.
• Barber (Malcolm), The
Trial of The Templars - Cambridge
University Press, 1978, 1996.
• Barber (Malcolm),
The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple - Cambridge
University Press, 1994, 1998.
• Barber (Malcolm), ed., The
Military Orders. Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick
(Aldershot: Variorum, 1994).
• Bingham (Caroline), 1978, The
crowned lions: the early Plantagenêt Kings,
David & Charles, London.
• BONIFACCIO- A.L.A. - VAREA ( SAVORANOLA).
Engraved plan of Famagusta
within text, c.1713, 176x100mm.
Troop formation and their tents would indicate the Turkish siege
of 1571.
• Bötig (Klaus), Cyprus. Merian Live.
• Boustronios (George), The
Chronicle of George Boustronios 1456-1489,
Translated by R. M. Dawkins. Melbourne University Press, Australia,
1964, pp.84, p/b, £15 [sole distributor]. Published by
the University of Melbourne Cyprus Expedition, this is the first English
language translation of the Greek chronicles of George Boustronios,
which continue the narrative of the earlier work of Leontios Makhairas,
beginning in 1456, two years before the death of King John II, to
1489, the year of the cession of Cyprus to Venice by the last Queen,
Catherine Cornaro.
The text is illustrated with dozens of black and white plates and
several maps.
• BRASSEY (A.) - Sunshine
and storm in the East, or cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople.
New York, 1880. Large 8vo, 2 folding maps,
9 full page plates, over 100 illustrations in text, pictorial
red cloth. This is a scarce edition with the different board
design. This voyage to Cyprus took place in 1878. Brassey was one
of the most important travellers of the last century. Cyprus:
One folding map, 4 full page engraved plates and many vignettes.
• Broughton (Bradford B.), 1966, The
legends of King Richard I, Coeur de Lion:
a study of sources and variations to the year 1600, Mouton, The Hague.
• Brown (J. D.), COINAGE
IN THE LATIN EAST. (British
Archaeological Reports, International Series No. 77.) Oxford:
BAR, 1980.
• Brundage (James A.), 1991, The
Crusades, holy war, and canon law,
Variorum, London.
• BRUYN (CORNELIS de) - Reizen
door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus,
Cyprus, Metelino, Stanchio,..
Delft, Krooneveld, 1698. Folio, engraved title, frontispiece, portrait,a
large engraved folding map, 210 numbered engraved plates (17 folding,
20 double page, numerous in text), plus two unnumbered, spine
defective,restoration, brown but good in contemporary vellum boards.
First edition. A very important description of Cyprus. Folding
long panoramas of Constantinople, Chios, etc., view of Famagusta,
St. Chrysostomo, Cefalovriso, Bella Bais, etc.
• BRUYN (CORNELIS de) - Cypriot
Lady. c.1700, 137X265 mm (image
size 128x147mm). A copper engraved portrait, in superb
detail. This oval shaped portrait of a society Cypriot lady
is also an example of the dress of that period. Text in Dutch
at verso dealing with Cyprus.
• Bryer (A.A.M. and Georghallides G.S.),
Eds., The Sweet Land of Cyprus,
Papers given at the Twenty-Fifth Jubilee Spring Symposium of Byzantine
Studies, Birmingham, March 1991, Cyprus Research Centre – The
University of Birmingham, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern
Greek Studies, Nicosia, 1993, pp.454, 17 proceedings and 16 summaries
in English and French, h/b, dust jacket, large format, £28.
• Burges (James Bland), 1977, Richard
the first, Garland, New York.
• BUSTRON FLORIO -
MAS LATRIE (RENE DE) editor. Chronique
de l’ile de Chypre. Melanges
Historiques. Choix de documents. Tome cinquieme. Chronique d ile de
Chypre. Paris, 1886. 4to, rebound in cloth, gold tooling, minor
worming, ex library, very good uncut clean large paper set.
Scarce.
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• Cameron Lyons (Malcolm) & D.E.P.
Jackson,
Saladin: The Politics
of War - Cambridge University Press
1997.
• Choniates, Niketas. History
or Annals, The Reign of Andronikos Komnenos and The Reign of Isaakios
Angelos. Ed. Jan-Louis van Dieten
(Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, Berlin and New York, 1975) 290-92,
340, 369-70, and 418. English transl.by Harry J. Magoulias, O City
of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniates (Detroit, 1984) 161-62,
187, 204-205, and 229-30.
• COBHAM (CLAUDE DELAVAL) - Excerpta
Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus.
Cambridge, 1908. 4to, 2 plans, ( 1 double page), 1 folding genealogical
table, bibliography at the end, original cloth, editing annotations,
minor imperfections. First large edition, scarce. A standard
reference work on the bibliography of Cyprus.
• Coureas (Nicholas), The
Latin Church in Cyprus, 1195-1312
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997).
• Coureas (N. and Riley-Smith J.), Eds.,
Cyprus and the Crusaders,
Papers given at the International Conference.
• Cyprus Research Centre –
Society for Study of the Crusades and the Latin East,
Cyprus and the Crusades,
Nicosia, 6-9 September, 1994, Nicosia, 1995, pp. 538, 24 proceedings
in English, Greek and French, h/b, dust jacket, large format, £28.
• Cyprus Research Centre, Texts and Studies
in the History of Cyprus, The
Assizes of the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus,
XLII, Cyprus Research Centre, Nicosia, 2002, pp.408, h/b, dust jacket,
large format, £10.
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• DAPPER (O) - Famagusta.
c. 1688, 162x125 mm. Copper engraved plan with text, good impression.
• DRUMMOND (ALEXANDER) - Travels
through different cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and severals parts
of Asia, as far as the banks of Eupfrates.
London, W. Strahan, 1754. Folio, 35 engraved plates, some folding
( 6 of Cyprus including a very large folding map, minor imperfections),
marbled boards, leather back gilt. A good firm copy. First edition
of this important work containing a long account of Cyprus where Drummond
traveled extensively as English consul in Aleppo. The plates depict
many places of interest, his folding map of Cyprus presents many original
features, based on Drummond’s personal experiences. Cyprus:
One large folding map, 5 views, St. Hilarion, Buffavendo castle, Bella
Pays, Kantara castle, Kanakaria. 2 other plates, plan of Salines bay
(Larnaca), St. Mamas (Morphou).
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• Edbury (Peter W.)
The Military Orders
in Cyprus in the Light of Recent Scholarship,
Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom.
• Edbury (Peter W.), The
Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1375
Published by Cambridge University Press 1991, 1993. Paperback. 259
pages. 4 line diagrams and 7 maps. This new study, which is based
on original research, traces the fortunes of Cyprus under its royal
dynasty and its role in the Crusades and in the confrontation of Christian
and Muslim in the Near East until the 1370s. It is both a major contribution
to the history of the Crusades in the Levant and the only scholarly
study of medieval Cyprus currently available. For a modern general
history of the first two centuries of Lusignan Cyprus with a bibliography
of earlier work. Price: Cy. P. 32.00.
• Edbury (Peter W.), 'The
Templars in Cyprus', 189-95.
• Edwards (J. Goronwy), 1933, "Itinerarium
Regis Ricardi and the Estoire de la Guerre Sainte"
in Edwards, J. G. (ed.), Galbraith, V. H. (ed.), & Jacob, E. F.
(ed.), Historical essays in honour of James Tait, Bulter & Tanner,
Manchester.
• ELLIS ( TRISTRAM JAMES) - Thirteen
Etchings of the views & places of interest in Cyprus.
London, 1879. This is the whole collection of thirteen plates etched
by Ellis, all in frames. 4 frames by 3 plates each and another
smaller with a girl weaving. The Ellis work is considered the first
work by a famous artist depicting people and places after the 1878
annexation of Cyprus by the British. They are well executed in excellent
contrast bearing the inscription Tristram Ellis, 1879. This is a very
important and scarce work in a small edition. Ellis, an accomplished
artist, visited Cyprus with the start of the British Administration.
• Enlart (Désiré Louis Camille,
1862-1927): "l'Art
Gothique et la Renaissance a Chypre",
Paris, 1899. 2vols., 8vo, over 400 illustrations in text, 35
plates, marbled boards, leather back and corners. A detailed
study on Gothic art and architecture in Cyprus, elaborately illustrated
with hundreds of illustrations covering every aspect.
A really exciting and informative work. Also see in this list: Hunt
(Sir David).
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• FAROCHON (P.A.) – Chypre
et Lepante. Paris, 1894.
8vo, title printed in black and red, profusely illustrated, many full
page plates, contemporary cloth, gilt, minor imperfections. A most
elaborately illustrated work of importance on the history of
Cyprus. Scarce.
• FISHER (FRED H.) - Cyprus. Our
New Colony and what we know about it.
London, 1878. Small 8vo, 2 maps (one of Cyprus), publisher’s
pictorial yellow boards, slightly rubbed. Map of Cyprus. Scarce.
• Forey (Alan), 'Towards a profile of the
Templars in the early fourteenth century', 196-204.
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• Gillingham (John) 1978, Richard
the Lionheart, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, London.
• Gilmour-Bryson (Anne), 'Testimony
of non-Templar witnesses in Cyprus',
205-211.
• Gilmour-Bryson (Anne), The
Trial of the Templars in Cyprus.
A complete English edition (Leiden: Brill, 1998).
• GJERSTAD (E.) - WESTHOLM (A.) - DIKAIOS
(P.) - STEWART (J.) - Swedish
Cyprus Expedition. Sweden, 1934
-1962, Folio, 12 vols. Profusely illustrated within text, full
page plates, folding plans and maps, 3 vols. of plates. A systematic
and continues reporting on excavations spanning many years. This is
the complete work, difficult to find. Scarce.
• GOERE (I.) – GOUVVEN (G.V.) –
Cyprus.
c.1700, 183x245mm. Aphrodite in an apotheosis set in a
procession of cupits, admirers, etc. Two cupids are holding the map
of Cyprus indicating the place of her destination or origin. A superb
work of art, full of movement and beauty. Closely trimmed.
• GRAZIANI ( ANTONIO MARIA) - The
history of the War of Cyprus.
London, 1687. 8vo, engraved full page map of the island, the additional
title supplied in facsimile. Title and map ruled in red , gilt decorated
morocco, rebacked retaining original back strip, a sound copy. First
edition in English. Scarce.
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• HACKETT (J.) - History
of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus.
London, 1901. 8vo, frontispiece and 11 plates. Original green cloth,
minor imperfections, ex-library. An authoritative account of the church
in Cyprus.
• Hallam (Elizabeth),
Chronicles of the Crusades
- Bramley Books 1996.
• Hallam (Elizabeth),
Medieval Monarchs
- Tiger 1996.
• Hallam (Elizabeth), 1986, The
Plantagenêt chronicles, George
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London.
• Hellander (Paul), Cyprus
(Dutch). Lonely Planet Publications.
• Hill, George. A
History of Cyprus (Cambridge, 1940)
I 312-21.
• Hodziotis (Costa C.), THE
ACHAEAN COINAGE OF JEAN DE GRAVINA.
London: V. C. Vecchi & Sons, 1976.
• Holmes (George), (ed.) 1992, The
Oxford history of medieval Europe,
Oxford University, Oxford.
• HONDIUS (J.) – Cyprus.
Amsterdam, c.1616, engraved map of Cyprus, 132x93mm, mounted.
• HOPKEN (C.F.) – CARLSSON ( E.) –
Twanne stora swenska herrars
resebeskrifning ifran Cypern, til Asien,
Tryckt, 1812. 8vo, marbled boards with red label, gilt writing , ex
library copy , good condition. A narrative by two Swedes of their
travels from Cyprus to Jerusalem in 1733. A scarce narrative
on the island.
• Hunt
(Sir David),
Footprints in Cyprus,
London - 1982. (Born in Durham, David
Hunt read Classics and Ancient History at Wadham College,
Oxford and had a distinguished World War II record. He entered
the diplomatic service in 1947, in which capacity he was Private Secretary
to both Attlee and Churchill and Adviser to Macmillan. He was
knighted in 1963. He retired from the diplomatic service in
1973 as Ambassador to Brazil but continued to have a successful career
as a writer. Sir David Hunt died in July 1998 at the age of 84.)
• Hunt
(Sir David), translated and ed. Gothic
Art and the Renaissance in Cyprus,
(Camille Enlart). First published in English 1987 by Trigraph Limited,
London. Also see in this list: Enlart.
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• Ilieva (Annetta), 'The
suppression of the Templars in Cyprus according to the Chronicle of
Leontios Makhairas', 212-19.
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• JANSSONIUS (JOANNES) - Cyprus
Insula laeta choris. c. 1652, 470x344mm.
Elaborate sea map of Cyprus. Hand coloured. One of the first sea maps
of the island.
• Jeffery (George), A
Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus:
Studies in the Archaeology and Architecture of the Island, Nicosia
1918 and London 1983. Zeno Publishers. A comprehensive work written
by the man largely responsible for the preservation of Bellapais Abbey.
This book is required reading for all students of Cypriot architecture
and history.
• Jeffery (George), Cyprus
under Richard I, an English King in the Twelfth Century, the
adventures of Richard I and the crowning of his Queen in the Island.
In attempting to paraphrase the ancient chronicles of the Third Crusade,
the effort has been to combine the famous diary of the eye-witness
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, (Bohn's edition 1849), the 'Itinerarium Regis
Anglorum Richardi', with other sources of information. Richard of
Devizes and Roger of Howden (Hoveden) are the chief English chroniclers
of the most stirring episode in the history of the Crusades. There
are numerous other contemporary records of the greatest importance:
the chronicles of Ernoul, William of Tyre (Guillaume de Tyre), Jacques
de Vitry, or the romances of the Fleming 'Jean d'Avesnes' or the 'Minstrel
of Rheims'. Among other sources for this book: Viollet le Duc, Rey,
Schlumberger and Kingsford. First published Nicosia 1926.
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• Kehagioglou (Georghios), Ed., The
Chronicle of Cyprus of Georghios Voustronios,
The Cyprus Research Centre, Nicosia, 1997, Greek language only, pp.
579, h/b, dust jacket, large format, £30.
KEULEN (JOANNES van) – Paskaart
van’t Oosterste, Caramania,
Cyprus. c.1680, 585X510, sea map with Cyprus and the adjacent coasts.
Scarce.
• KIEPERT (H.) – Neuer
Atlas von Hellas unden Hellenischen Colonien in 15 plattern.
Berlin, 1872. Folio, 15 lithographed double-page maps of the Greek
world specially engraved for this atlas, hand coloured, half
morocco, gilt. A superb set. Scarce. Cyprus is featured on two of
the maps.
• Kingsford (Charles Lethbridge, j.a.),
The Crusades.
• KITCHENER (H.H.) - A
trigonometrical Survey of the Island of Cyprus.
Executed & published by command of H.E. Major General Sir R. Biddulph
under the direction of the Captain H.H.Kitchener. Edward Stanford,
1885. Large scale engraved and lithographed map, disserted into
128 sections on 16 sheets, 504x647mm, mounted on linen, partially
printed in mauve, each section with marbled covers and map key label,
small stain at one fold. Within original gilt lettered cloth slipcase,
case internally repaired, 2016x3882mm approx. This is the first and
proper full survey of Cyprus. Kitchener then 28 years old a Lieutenant
in the British army, was sent to survey Cyprus following the ceding
of the island to Gr. Britain at the Congress of Berlin 1878. This
is the portable and extremely scarce edition of this important
larger ever made map of the island. Scarce.
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• LAMARTINE ( ALPHONSE DE) - Souvenirs,
impressions, pensees et paysages, pendant un voyage en
orient 1832-1833. Paris: Charles
Gosselin Furne, 1835 . 4 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, engraved
portrait, folding table and 2 folding engraved maps in vol.4, nineteenth-
century red calf-backed boards, spines gilt. First Edition.
These four volumes, complete in themselves, cover the
collected edition of his works. Lamartine travelled in great
style in his own private yacht, presenting costly gifts to his
hosts. The description of his visit to Cyprus is important as
we have little other information at this period. Very interesting.
• Landon (Lionel) 1934, The
itinerary of King Richard I: with
studies on certain matters of interest connected with his reign, Pipe
Roll Society, London.
• LOREDANO –
GIBLET (HENRICO) - Historie
de Re Lusignani. Bologna, 1647.
8vo, engraved title, old library stamp, minor imperfections,
in original vellum binding. The present work is still a very important
history on the Royalty of Cyprus and the house of Lusignan who ruled
from 1192 until 1489. Scarce.
• LUDWIG SALVATOR,
(Archduke of Austria). Levkosia
die Haupstadt von Cypern. Prague,
1873. 4to, title in red and black, 12 wood engraved plates on Indian
paper, and 3 woodcuts in the text (1 in red). Original pictorial green
cloth gilt, minor foxing. Extremely interesting and scarce account
of Nicosia by the traveller and yachtsman Ludwig Salvator, with 15
views based on his drawings.
• Luttrell
(Anthony), 'The Hospitallers
in Cyprus after 1310' Kupriakai
Spoudai, 50 (Nicosia, 1986), 155-84. (reprinted in The Hospitallers
of Rhodes and their Mediterranean World, (Aldershot, Variorum Collected
Studies, 1992).
• Luttrell (Anthony),'Sugar
and schism. The Hospitallers in Cyprus from 1378 to 1386',
in 'The Sweet Land of Cyprus'. Papers given at the 25th jubilee spring
symposium of Byzantine studies, edited by A.A.M. Bryer and G.S. Georghallides
(Nicosia: Cyprus Research Centre/Society for the Promotion of Byzantine
Studies, 1993), 157-66.
• Luttrell (Anthony),'The
Hospitallers in Cyprus after 1386',
in Cyprus and the Crusades, ed. N. Coureas and J. Riley-Smith (Nicosia:
Cyprus Research Centre/Society for the Study of the Crusades and the
Latin East, 1995, 125-41.)
• Anthony Luttrell, 'The Hospitallers
in Cyprus after 1310' Kupriakai Spoudai, 50 (Nicosia, 1986), 155-84.
(reprinted in The Hospitallers of Rhodes and their Mediterranean World,
(Aldershot, Variorum Collected Studies, 1992)
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• MACHERAS (LEONCE) - Chronique
de Chypre. Traduction Francaise
par Miller (E.) - Sathas (C.) Paris, 1882. 4to, leather backed cloth,
gild. Original covers are retained internally. A very good copy. A
most important source of history on the events in the Island during
the Frankish period. Based on a manuscript found in Venice. Somehow
not used by Des Mass Latrie, the famous French historian and researcher.
• Malloy (Alex G.); Preston, Irene Fraley;
and Seltman, A. J. COINS
OF THE CRUSADER STATES, 1098-1291:
INCLUDING THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM AND ITS VASSAL STATES OF SYRIA
AND PALESTINE, THE LUSIGNAN KINGDOM OF CYPRUS (1192-1489), AND THE
LATIN EMPIRE OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND ITS VASSAL STATES OF GREECE AND
THE ARCHIPELAGO. Ed. Allen Berman. New York: Attic Books,
1994.
• Mariti (Giovanni), Travels
in the island of Cyprus, translated
from the Italian by Claude Delaval Cobham. With contemporary accounts
of the Sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta. Bibliotheca Historica Cypria.
Zeno Publishers, London, England.
• MAS LATRIE (RENE DE) – Documents
nouveaux a histoire de l’ile de Chypre sous le regne des
princes de la maison de Lusignan.
Melanges Historiques. Choix de documents. P.337 – 621. Paris,
1882. 4to, rebound in cloth, gold tooling,, minor worming, ex library
a very good uncut clean large paper set. Scarce.
• Megaw (A.H.S.), 'A
castle in Cyprus attributable to the Hospital?',
42-51.
• MERCATOR (Gerard) - HONDIUS (J.) - Cyprus
Ins. Insets Stalimini, Chius
ins., Mitilene ins., Negreponte ins., Cerico ins. Engraved map, c.1606,
492x352mm. Decorative cartouche, etc., Cyprus in a very decorative
setting with six Greek islands below, a most beautiful map by
a great cartographer. Superb original colour on fine thick paper.
• Metcalf (D. M.), THE
SILVER COINAGE OF CYPRUS.
(Corpus of Lusignan Coinage V. 2.) Nicosia: Cyprus Research
Centre, 1996.
• MYLLER MARIA (P. A.) - Nicosia.
c. 1729. 172x140mm. Engraved plan - view of the town and the
surrounding area. Pediaeus is entering and leaving the walls. There
are buildings on the hills outside the walls and two roads are
placed on either site of the town. A much improved plan - view
of Nicosia, a most beautiful period engraved plate.
• MYLLER MARIA (P.A.) - Famagusta.
c.1729. 170x140mm. Engraved birds eye view of Famagusta. There are
sailing ships in the harbour and the town is surrounded with strong
defensive walls, beyond beautiful partly wooded mountains. Probably
the most beautiful period engraved view of Famagusta.
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• NABERAT ( A.) - Isle
de Chypre. Engraved map of
Cyprus, c.1629, 263x191mm, coat of arms, sailing ships and topographical
key, the Karpasia Cape (St. Andreas) is considerable shorten. A very
interesting map depicting the towns of Nicosia and Famagusta within
their fortifications. Limassol is also shown within defensive walls.
Scarce.
• Nicholson (Helen, ed.), The Military
Orders: Welfare and Warfare (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).
• Norgate (Kate), 1887, England
under the Angevin kings - Volume Two,
Macmillan & Co, London.
• Norgate (Kate), 1924, Richard
the Lion Heart, Macmillan &
Co, London.
• Numismatic
Bibliography: MEDIEVAL
COINAGES: THE
CRUSADERS including Lusignan Dynasty.
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• O’KELLY (C.) - O’CALLACHAN
(J.C.) - Macariae Excidium,
or the destruction of Cyprus. Dublin,1850.
4to, rebound, leather back and corners, head piece decorative initials,
bound with other works.The author Philotas was of Cypriot decent.
This work is based on an original antique manuscript. Scarce.
• ORTELIUS ( A). - Cypri
Insulae. Descript 1573. Engraved
map, c1573, 495x350mm, inset Lemnos insula. This is the second map
of A. Ortelius with the orientations corrected, decorative cartouches,
sailing ships, etc., small border stain, very good impression.
• ORTELIUS (Abraham) – BOTERO (G.)
– Cipro-Cyprus Insula.
c.1598, 102x78mm, set within text. Scarce edition.
• ORTELIUS (A.) – VRIENS (JEAN BAPTISTE)
- Cyprus.
c.1602, 107x79mm.
• ORTELIUS (A.) – HEYNS (P.) –
GALLE (P.) - Cyprus Insula.
c.1589, 107x85mm, sailing ships, sea dragon.
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• Parthog (Gwynneth der),
Byzantine & Medieval
Cyprus, London - 1994.
• Parthog (Gwynneth der),
Byzantine and Medieval
Cyprus, A Guide to the Monuments,
Interworld Publications, London, 1995, pp. 288, p/b, £6 [sole
distributor]. Beginning with a historical survey of the island, including
post-Byzantine art in Cyprus, the text is illustrated with various
maps, black and white sketches and diagrams and dozens of colour photographs.
Designed as a guide to help “independent-minded visitors to explore
Cyprus a little further”, Der Parthog bridges the gap between
detailed specialist publications and general guides.
• Pavlides (Andros) and Erkolani (Anna),
Eds., The History of Cyprus
of Georghios Voustronios, Philokypros
Publications, Nicosia, 1998, Greek language only, pp.485, h/b, large
format, £30.
• Pavlides (Andros), Ed., The
Chronicle of Georghios Voustronios,
Philokypros Publications, Nicosia, 1989, Greek language only, pp.196,
h/b, large format, £20.
• Pavlides (Andros), Ed., The
Chronicle of Leontios Macheras,
Philokypros Publications, Nicosia, 1995, Greek language only, pp.589,
13 colour illustrations, h/b, large format, £30.
• Pelosi (Olimpia), Ed., Lusignan’s
Chorography and Brief General History of the Island of Cyprus (A.D.
1573), Sources for the History of
Cyprus, Volume X, Greece and Cyprus Research Centre, New York, 2001,
pp.249, p/b, large format, £33.
• PETO (GLADYS) - Malta
and Cyprus. London, 1926. 8vo,
decorative title and 2 maps on inside boards, 19 illustrations, blue
cloth gilt. Cyprus: 1 map inside back board and 12 delightful illustrations
( 6 full page).
• Pohlsander (Hans A.), Ed., Greek
Text of the Fourth to Thirteenth Centuries, Sources for the History
of Cyprus, Volume VII, Greece and
Cyprus Research Centre, New York, 1999, pp.195, p/b, large format,
£29.
• PTOLEMY – MAGINI – Cypri
Insula. Copper engraved map, c.1600,
166x123mm, two decorative emblems. A very attractive map of
Cyprus. Minor imperfections.
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• RAYNAUD ( GASTON) editor - Les
gestes des Chiprois. Recueil de
chroniques francaises derites en orient aux Xllle & XIV
siecles. ( Philippe de Navarre & Gerard de Monreal). Geneve: 1887.
• Reges Hierusalem et Cypri, guodam Cypri
ete regina Car Sarma Cornara Superstiti sodiegue, Cornarios Patriciae
familia consecrat. c.1650, 245x398mm. A
genealogical tree of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Cyprus,
a well decorated setting tracing the royal tree of Cyprus,
it combines a town view, Royal emblems and other decorative features.
Superb colour.
• REINHARDS JOHANN PAUL - Dollfrandige
Beschichte des Konigrechs Sypern.
Erlangen, Leipsig, 1766-1768. 4to, 4 parts in 2 vols, portrait frontispiece
(Caterina Cornaro),
2 large folding maps of Cyprus, 3 engraved plates of coins,
6 folding genealogical tables, 5 engraved head-pieces, decorative
and other tail pieces, etc., contemporary vellum boards. A very good
clean set. An extremely important history in two volumes , a
well presented set with superb unusual illustrations specially commissioned
for this work. The two folding maps are here shown for the first and
only time.
• Richard (Jean), 'Les
révoltes chypriotes de 1191-1192 et les inféodations
de Guy de Lusignan', in Montjoie.
Studies in Crusade history in honour of Hans Eberhard Mayer, ed. B.Z.
Kedar, J. Riley-Smith, R. Hiestand (Aldershot: Variorum, 1997), 123-8.
For a modern general history of the first two centuries of Lusignan
Cyprus with a bibliography of earlier work.
• RICHTER OHNEFALSCH , MAGDA - Griechische
and Cypern. Berlin,1913. Thick
4to, one folding map and 80 plates depicting topography, Architecture,
people, manners, etc. Board profusely decorated, a very good copy.
This is an important work with keen observations covering the early
20th century period. A unique study of the island and its people.
• Riley-Smith (Jonathan),
Hospitallers - The History
of the Order of St John, THe Humbledon
Press, London, 1999, pp. 152, numerous illustrations, p/b, £8.
• Roberts (Louis), Ed., Latin
Texts from the First Century B.C. to the Seventeenth Century A.D.,
Sources for the History of Cyprus,
Volume VIII, Greece and Cyprus Research Centre, New York, 2000, pp.272,
p/b, large format, £33.
• ROCHETTA (A.) – Peregrinatione
di Terra Sancta e d’altere provincie.
Palermo, 1630. 4to, 49 engraved plates (5 maps including one
of Cyprus, Crete, Zante,etc.) , contemporary vellum, restoration,
engraved title provided in facsimile, portrait of the author and
author’s declaration. Account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land
from 1598 to 1599and his visit to Cyprus, etc. The map of Cyprus accompanying
the text is unusual.
• ROUX (JOSEPH) - Ile
de Chypre. c.1760, 560x815mm. A
large size sea chart of Cyprus and adjacent area. A good clean
example and a fine impression.
• Rudt de Collenberg, W. H. "L'empereur
Isaac de Chypre et sa fille (1155-1207)".
Byzantion 38 (1968): 123-79.
• Runciman (Steven), 1954, The
history of the Crusades: volume 3 - the kingdom of Acre and the later
Crusades, Penguin, England.
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• SEUTTER (MATTHIAS) – Insula
Cyprus, in regional map “Deserta
Aegypti ….” c.1725, 578x497mm, original superb colour. Differs
in orientation to similar maps. Beautiful title vignette, short borders,
old ink annotations.
• Sevcenko (Nancy P.) and Christopher Moss,
technical staff member in Art and Archaeology (Princeton University
Press, 1999),
Medieval Cyprus: Studies
in Art, Architecture and History in Memory of Doula Mouriki.
• Severis (Leto), Foundation of Kostakis
and Leto Severis,
Ladies of Medieval Cyprus
and Caterina Cornaro,
Nicosia, 1999, pp.197, large format, p/b, £15 (also Greek edition)
[sole distributor]. This work illustrates the roles and personalities
of various important women in the medieval history of Cyprus, concentrating
on the wives, daughters and mistresses of the Lusignan kings, placing
particular emphasis on the last Queen, Caterina Cornaro.
Severis tends towards a literary treatment of her subject matter,
although without distancing herself from historical events. The book
is also available in Greek, and both language editions include dozens
of stunning full-page colour plates.
• SOMER (JAN) – Beschrijvinge
van een zee ende Landt Reyse near de Levante… Candyen, Cypres.
Amsterdam, 1642. 8vo, engraved title, 6 engraved plates in text (one
of Famagusta), later spotted boards, some water staining and small
border repair, minor imperfections. Somer’s journey to the Levant
has taken place in 1590-92, his description of Cyprus is accompanied
by an interesting view of Famagusta. A scarce work.
• STEWART (BASIL) - My experiences of Cyprus.
London, 1908. 8vo, frontispiece and 48 illustrations. Very good
in original embossed tan cloth. A very interesting work with
lots of original information.
• Stubbs (William), (ed.) 1864, Itinerarium
Pereqrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi
(Chronicles and memorials of the reign of Richard I - Volume One),
Longman, Green, and Co., London.
• Stubbs (William), 1877, Epochs
of modern history - the early Plantagenêts,
Second Edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., London.
• Stylianou (Andreas) and Judith A. Stylianou.
The Painted Churches of Cyprus,
A.G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia, 1997, pp.527, over 300 illustrations,
h/b, dust jacket, £22.
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• TALBOT RICE (D.) - The
Icons of Cyprus. With chapters
by Rubert Gunnis and Tamara Talbot Rice. London, 1937. 4to,
Coloured frontispiece, 153 icons on 51 sheets (one in colour),
41 other illustration of tapestries designs, costumes, coat of arms
etc. plus other unnumbered plates, green cloth. A very important
authoritative study on Byzantine and Cypriot iconography, much appreciated
by scholars. Scarce.
• The Committee for the Excavation of Antioch
and Vicinity, CRUSADERS' COINS,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952.
• TITIAN – OESTERREICH (M.) –
BASAN (F.) - CORNARO
CATERINA. Quadro di Tiziano
Vecelli. Portrait of the tragic last Queen of Cyprus, c.1820, 217x297mm,
superb copper engraving on elephant paper sheet. A coat of arms between
the two language tittles adds extra attraction.
• Touring and Automobile Association of
Turkey,
Northern Cyprus Guide.
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• VALEGIO (F.) - LAZOR (V.A.) (Savonarola)
– Nicosia.
“In insula Cipris Metropolis”. 1713, 133x87mm. Engraved
plan of Nicosia within text. Depicts the town of Nicosia
surrounded by the Venetian Walls. The river Pediaeus is shown
entering and leaving the walled city. The church of St. Sophia prominently
in the centre is surrounded by the rest of the town. Scarce.
• Vlachos, Th. _ (1184-1191). "Byzantina
6 (1974)": 169-77.
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• Waage (Dorothy B.), ANTIOCH-ON-THE-ORONTES.
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