To wake the dead : a Renaissance merchant and the birth of archaeology / Marina Belozerskaya
2009, 1st edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Co. Review copy. Near fine copy in the near-fine leatherette backed paper-covered boards. With a near fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #440681
ISBN: 0393065545
Physical description: 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents: On the threshold of history -- An Unlikely hero -- From mundane to the sublime -- At the crumbling epicenter of the past -- An antiquary born of trade -- The Ottoman threat -- Spy and diplomat -- Poised and thwarted -- The measure of a man -- Into the Greek past -- Meeting of the minds -- The last crusade -- In the balance. Subjects: Ciriaco d'Ancona 1391-1452. Archaeology History. Classical antiquities Conservation and restoration.
Price: €12.95