[Cyprus Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

An Eastern Chequerboard [This is Luke’s personal copy]. Illustrated [With thirty-two Plates].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1934. 22,5 cm x 15 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 290 pages, [1] page, 32 plates with photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Slight foxing to pages, fraying to dustjacket. Otherwise in very good condition.

With a Glossary for Arabic, Armenian, Gree, Persian, Russian, Syriac, Turkish

Chapters in the book are:

1. Monasteries in Greece (1907)
2. Rhodes (1908)
3. A Seaport in Cyprus (1912)
4. Le Doux Pays de Chypre (Translates: “The Sweet Land of Cyprus”)
5. The City of Dancing Dervishes (1913)
6. The Turkish Jester (1913)
7. The Old Seraglio (1919)
8. Mount Athos in Peace and War (1907-1915-1923)
9. A Jerusalem Miscellany (1920-1924)
10. The Holy Sepulchre and the Holy Fire (1924)
11. The Desert Road (1924)
12. From Prester John to Mar Shimun (1924)
13.The Worshippers of Satan (1924)
14. A Retrospect (1904 – 1934)

The Illustrations / Photographs show:

Plate I: The Former headquarters of the Dancing Dervishes, Kona (From a minaret of the Selimieh Mosque)
Plate II: The Abbot of S. Luke in Stiris
Plate III: The Serpent Column from Delphi : now in the Atmeidan, Constantinople
Plate IV: Rhodes : Gate of Amboise / Entrance of Harbour / A divan-cover of Rhodian embroidery in the author’s posession [sic]
Plate V: Rhodes : The Street of the Knights
Plate VI: Famagusta from the Arsenal, looking northwest / The funeral of Subh-i-Ezel leaving the Land Gate, Famagusta
Plate VII: S. Nicholas: West Front – South Porch
Plate VIII: Kyrenia – Bella Paise
Plate IX: Bella Paise : Cloister – Refectory
X: Interior of the Mosque of Sultan Ala ed-Din, Konia
XI: The Sultans of Rum
XII: The Chelebi of Konia (The picture in the oval frame represents the Chelebi’s headdress)
XIII: Outside the Mosque of Sahib Ata, Konia
XIV: The tomb of Khoja Nasr-el-Din, Aqshehir
XV: The Khoja’s grave (Observe the Khoja’s window below the inscription)
XVI: The Tash Medrese, Aqshehir
XVII: The old Seraglio from the entrance to the Bosphorus
XVIII: The Throne-room – The Qafes [Cafe’s]
XIX: Haremlik : Schoolroom of the Princes
XX: Xenophon from the Sea
XXI: A Greek Bishop prepared for Burial – Church Roofs, Docheiariou
XXII: Nebi Musa procession leaving S. Stephen’s Gate
XXIII: Group at Service to commemorate the libaeration of Jerusalem (showing signatures in Amharic, Coptic, Armenian, Greek, Syriac, Arabic)
XXIV: Armenian Cathedral in Jerusalem : Altar of S. John and door of Treasury
XXV: After the Holy Fire – The crowd leaving the Holy Sepulchre
XXVI: The washing of the Feet by the late Patriarch Damianos
XXVII: Abyssinian Abbot and Clergy on the roof of S. Helena’s Chapel (on the left the Apse of the Holy Sepulchre)
XXVIII: The Golden Domes of Kadhimein – Palmyra and the Village of Tadmor
XXIX: Mar Shimun XX. with Surma Khanum and the Metropolitan of Shemsdinan – The Official Seal of Mar Shimun
XXX: The Mir of the Yezidis – Ba Idri: Court and Haremlik
XXXI: Temple Court – The Serpent – Temple of the Sun
XXXII: Sultan Mehmed VI. at the Selamlik

• Keywords: British Colonial Administration · British Colonial History · British Foreign Office · British Foreign Policy · Cyprus · Cyprus Content (Printed Chapters) · Cyprus Content / Sir Harry Luke Collection · Harry Luke – Cyprus / WW I (1911-1919) · Sir Harry Luke · Sir Harry Luke – Personal Archive of Books and Correspondence · Sir Harry Luke Collection
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 30171AB

EUR 275.000,--