Cyprus: Its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during Ten Years' Residence in That Island
Limassol: James Bendon, (1991). Hardcover. frontis (portrait), photos, illustrations, maps (on endpapers), index, 6, 2, xix, 456p. plus (3)p. original publisher's advertisements. Original red cloth. dj, 23cm. Minor wear on back panel of jacket. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #78570
ISBN: 9963762468
Reprint of the 1878 New York edition. Cesnola fought on the Union side in the American Civil War, achieving the rank of Colonel, and was appointed U.S. Consul to Cyprus a few months after his honorable discharge in the Fall of 1864. While in Cyprus he amassed a large collection of antiquities, many of which were purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stuart Swiny, in his Foreword to this 1991 edition, describes this book as "a tantalizing web of fact, fiction and hyperbole that researchers have labored to disentangle for well over a century."
Price: $85.00