RARE COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON THE NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF ATHENS

Ca. 20th century > A rare monumental, multi-volume scholarly catalogue and photographic corpus of the collections housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens written by Ioannis N. Svoronos (Jean Nikolaus Svoronos, 1863?1922), a prominent Greek numismatist and archaeologist. It heavily features ancient Greek reliefs (excluding grave reliefs), classical sculptures, bronzes, and a foundational early study and photographic documentation of the Antikythera Mechanism. Initially published in 1903 in Greece, it was later published in German in 1908. This particular edition was published in 1975. > > Size: 330-330mm x 265-265mm; Weight: 8.9kg > Provenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014. > >