Volonakis, Michael D. (1875-1950)

The Island Of Roses And Her Eleven Sisters Or, The Dodecanese From The Earliest Time Down To The Present Day [Aegean Islands; Greece and Turkey]

London: Macmillan, 1922. First Edition, First Printing. Introduction by J.L. Myres.

Blue publisher's cloth with gilt titles and a front emblem; 9 inches tall; xxv, 438 pages illustrations, plates (some folded), portrait, 5 maps (1 folded) and 12 in the text. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with minor wear to the edges and corners with lightly rubbed spine tips; previous owner's name on the front-free-endpage.

Introduction by J.L. Myres.

Blue publisher's cloth with gilt titles and a front emblem; 9 inches tall; xxv, 438 pages illustrations, plates (some folded), portrait, maps (1 folded) The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with minor wear to the edges and corners with lightly rubbed spine tips; previous owner's name on the front-free-endpage. Beautifully illustrated with several fold-out panorama photographs with description of 15 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.

The Dodecanese are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited. This island group generally defines the eastern limit of the Sea of Crete. They belong to the wider Southern Sporades Island group. Rhodes has been the area's dominant island since antiquity. [Wiki]

Item #19136

Price: $225.00