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Western Travellers in China. Discovering the Middle Kingdom. cover art

Western Travellers in China. Discovering the Middle Kingdom.

This book accompanied the exhibition "Western Travellers in China" held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, 28 October 2009-10 January 2010.
For centuries, China has aroused considerable interest in the Western world. In this book a selection of 130 volumes from a large collection of trave... More info
Ruling the Waves. Emperor Maximilian I, the Search for Islands and the Transformation of the European Wolrd Picture, c. 1500  cover art

Ruling the Waves. Emperor Maximilian I, the Search for Islands and the Transformation of the European Wolrd Pi...

In this work Kleinschmidt is tracing the political implications of the transformation of the European world picture in the age of Emperor Maximilian I. More info
Greek Civilization through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars. From the Collection of Dimitris Contominas. Preface by Helene Ahrweiler. Historical introduction by Ioli Vingopoulou. Designed by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos.  cover art

Greek Civilization through the Eyes of Travellers and Scholars. From the Collection of Dimitris Contominas. Pr...

Co-publication. Sales rights: Worldwide except USA. Available in USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 1584561343).
In collaboration with Konstantinos Staikos, a leading authority on library history, Leonora Navari has created an indispensable aid to any scholar of Greek culture. This richly annotated ... More info
Summer on the Lakes in 1843.  cover art

Summer on the Lakes in 1843.

Facsimile of the first edition, published in Boston in 1844, of this classic travel account by one of the leading American feminists and transcendentalists of the nineteenth century, Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). Summer on the lakes relates of Fuller’s visits to various Native American tribes i... More info
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