2017, ISBN: 0b304f55fc118f83d6657d08b8a3c252

Paperback, Hardcover

Athens: Livani Publishing Organization, 2011. Dust jacket. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English. 91, [4] p., ma… More...

Athens: Livani Publishing Organization, 2011. Dust jacket. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (30 x 21 cm). In English. 91, [4] p., many color ills. "Non ministrari sed ministrare: The ceremony was rich in pomp and tradition. On Saturday, March 7, 2009, Dr. David G. Horner was inaugurated as the seventh president of the American College of Greece. After the procession and formal welcome, the Greek Orthodox bishop, Damaskimos of Diavlia, offered the opening invocation. The closing benediction was to be very different in style. It was given by Reverend Dr. Nancy Taylor, senior minister of Old South Church in Boston. Dr. Taylor's presence at the ceremony was a fitting one. It was her church -the United Church of Christ- that first sent missionaries overseas to found the American College."., Livani Publishing Organization, 2011, Istanbul: NMC New Media Company, 2017. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paperback. 4to. (30 x 23 cm). In Turkish. 730 p., many b/w and color ills. Tepedeki okul: Robert Kolej'in üç yüzyili. A very comprehensive history of Robert College., NMC New Media Company, 2017, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Near Fine. 1921. Possible First Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and bumping. There is a bit of ground-in dirt to the front cover has well. The text pages are clean and bright. Included is a map as the frontispiece. "Williams was born at Abeih, Ottoman Turkey, the son of Congregational missionaries. He graduated from Amherst in 1873. Afterwards. he was employed at the New York World, and as a correspondent for the New York Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle." Included are sections regarding the massacre of Christians and of Armenians along with another section on the Kurds. " After the war ended, a military administration, named Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, was established in the captured territory of the former Ottoman Syria. The British sought legitimacy for their continued control of the region and this was achieved by obtaining a mandate from the League of Nations in June 1922. The formal objective of the League of Nations Mandate system was to administer parts of the defunct Ottoman Empire, which had been in control of the Middle East since the 16th century, "until such time as they are able to stand alone." ., Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921, New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine. [18.5 cm.] Spine sun-faded and with shallow chips to ends, light spotting to cloth, wear to corners with small areas of the boards showing. Light scattered foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book. Scarce in the trade. A sometimes humorous account of De Forest's travels in Ottoman Syria in the 1850's. Unlike many contemporary Western accounts of the Holy Land, the book emphasizes realistic descriptions of daily life, rather than observations of ancient relics, and the author is plainly critical of pilgrims and their reverence for sacred monuments. De Forest first visited Syria for health reasons in the 1840's and later returned to spend several years with his brother, a missionary. He includes descriptions of Smyrna, Rhodes, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and Jerusalem. "One of the more entertaining nineteenth-century American treatments of the Middle East." --Brian Yothers, Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, p. 88. "A pleasantly written book descriptive of persons and scenes encountered in his travels." --Smith, American Travelers Abroad, D36. John William De Forest (1826-1906) is best remembered for his first novel, "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty" (1867). BAL 4600.<

1906, ISBN: 0b304f55fc118f83d6657d08b8a3c252

New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped s… More...

New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine. [18.5 cm.] Spine sun-faded and with shallow chips to ends, light spotting to cloth, wear to corners with small areas of the boards showing. Light scattered foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book. Scarce in the trade. A sometimes humorous account of De Forest's travels in Ottoman Syria in the 1850's. Unlike many contemporary Western accounts of the Holy Land, the book emphasizes realistic descriptions of daily life, rather than observations of ancient relics, and the author is plainly critical of pilgrims and their reverence for sacred monuments. De Forest first visited Syria for health reasons in the 1840's and later returned to spend several years with his brother, a missionary. He includes descriptions of Smyrna, Rhodes, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and Jerusalem. "One of the more entertaining nineteenth-century American treatments of the Middle East." --Brian Yothers, Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, p. 88. "A pleasantly written book descriptive of persons and scenes encountered in his travels." --Smith, American Travelers Abroad, D36. John William De Forest (1826-1906) is best remembered for his first novel, "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty" (1867). BAL 4600., 0<

1906, ISBN: 0b304f55fc118f83d6657d08b8a3c252

New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped s… More...

New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine. [18.5 cm.] Spine sun-faded and with shallow chips to ends, light spotting to cloth, wear to corners with small areas of the boards showing. Light scattered foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book. Scarce in the trade. A sometimes humorous account of De Forest's travels in Ottoman Syria in the 1850's. Unlike many contemporary Western accounts of the Holy Land, the book emphasizes realistic descriptions of daily life, rather than observations of ancient relics, and the author is plainly critical of pilgrims and their reverence for sacred monuments. De Forest first visited Syria for health reasons in the 1840's and later returned to spend several years with his brother, a missionary. He includes descriptions of Smyrna, Rhodes, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and Jerusalem. "One of the more entertaining nineteenth-century American treatments of the Middle East." --Brian Yothers, Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, p. 88. "A pleasantly written book descriptive of persons and scenes encountered in his travels." --Smith, American Travelers Abroad, D36. John William De Forest (1826-1906) is best remembered for his first novel, "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty" (1867). BAL 4600.<

1906, ISBN: 0b304f55fc118f83d6657d08b8a3c252

Hardcover

PALESTINE HOLY LAND TURKEY ASIA MINOR OTTOMAN EMPIRE, New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original emb… More...

PALESTINE HOLY LAND TURKEY ASIA MINOR OTTOMAN EMPIRE, New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine. [18.5 cm.] Spine sun-faded and with shallow chips to ends, light spotting to cloth, wear to corners with small areas of the boards showing. Light scattered foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book. Scarce in the trade. A sometimes humorous account of De Forest's travels in Ottoman Syria in the 1850's. Unlike many contemporary Western accounts of the Holy Land, the book emphasizes realistic descriptions of daily life, rather than observations of ancient relics, and the author is plainly critical of pilgrims and their reverence for sacred monuments. De Forest first visited Syria for health reasons in the 1840's and later returned to spend several years with his brother, a missionary. He includes descriptions of Smyrna, Rhodes, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and Jerusalem. "One of the more entertaining nineteenth-century American treatments of the Middle East." --Brian Yothers, Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, p. 88. "A pleasantly written book descriptive of persons and scenes encountered in his travels." --Smith, American Travelers Abroad, D36. John William De Forest (1826-1906) is best remembered for his first novel, "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty" (1867). BAL 4600.<