George
Kala Xristouyenna!!
Below are the details of the book I mentioned in Atlanta with a small
cataloguing error that needs to have an update filed in Worldcat.
June S
PS - I note that the Brits are now planning to invade Sacramento <vbg>
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/13/british-university-plans-bra…
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From: KALAMOS BOOKS <kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 12:04 AM
Subject: Heroic find of the week
To: cohsl-list <cohsl-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu>
A nice nostalgic item .. but with a minor cataloguing problem
Lampros, Spyridon Pavlou.
To Heroon tou Agonos; 40 tetrachromiai kat' antigraphen ton en Monacho
eikonon tou Phon Hes. Met' epexegematikou keimenou. Athens: Epanatypose
Demokratikos Typos, 2013.
Facsimile Edition. Decorative Hardcover. Facsimile of a publication
originally issued by Hellenike Ekdotike Hetaireia in 1910 containing 40
coloured lithographs illustrating the heroes and events of the 1821 Greek
War of Independance. These nostalgic patriotic images adorned the walls of
innumerable Greek Kafenia for decades! [Large format book 14"x11"]
NOTE : There are only 2 US copies the original edition - and none of this
nice facsmilie - listed in WorldCat.
Here is the link
http://www.worldcat.org/title/heroon-tou-agonos-40-tetrachromiai-kat-antigr…
Does anyone have authority access for amending the error in that WorldCat
listing ?
In the OCLA record [# 46987652] the pictures are attributed to Heinrich
Maria von Hess (who has no known connection to Greece) whereas his brother
Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess was closely involved with King Otto :
<<In 1833, at Ludwig
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_I_of_Bavaria>'s
request, he accompanied Otto of Greece
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_of_Greece> to the newly formed Kingdom
of Greece, where at Athens <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens> he
gathered materials for pictures of the war of liberation. The sketches
which he then made were placed, forty in number, in the Pinakothek
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinakothek>, after being copied in wax on a
large scale by Nilsen <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilsen>, in the
northern arcades of the Hofgarten at Munich
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofgarten_(Munich)>. >>
This link also shows a selection of the lovely lithographs illustrated in
the book cited above
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_von_Hess
PS : I always loved the Bouboulina image, that of the lady telling the lads
exactly where to look, and the one of Mavrokordato trying so hard to look
martial, though his spectacles just make him seem rather muddled.<g>
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