A particularly remarkable set of rare books, documents, manuscripts, photographs, posters and prints is included in the two-day VERGOS Auctions auction “Rare Books, Manuscripts, Documents & Prints”, which will take place on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 June at the Athens Plaza Hotel at 6:30 p.m.

A very good copy of the rare travel book La Grèce. Vuespittoresquesettopographiques by Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, which is “considered by many to be the most beautiful book with views of Greece” and has the highest starting price of the auctioned collection (€20,000).

Stackelberg, Otto Magnus Von, la Crece. Vues pittoresques et topographiques,

Of the 535 items to be auctioned, also of great interest are:

– A letter signed by Theodore Kolokotronis to the Demogerons and Captains of the province of Kalavryta, in which he informs them that General Vasilios Petimezas is being sent to conduct a recruitment of one thousand six hundred soldiers.

– The extremely rare first edition of the Hymn to Freedom by DionysiosSolomos, with the Greek text and the French translation by Stanislas Julien.

– A very interesting set of 54 glass negatives from the archive of Konstantinos Parthenis, covering almost three decades of the life of what is in many ways the most important Greek painter of the 20th century. Among them are 16 portraits of himself and members of his family, as well as some portraits and a landscape, most probably taken by him, on which his works were based, such as the portraits of Zacharias Papantoniou (1920-1930), DionysiosLoverdou (1922) and MarigosPapanastasiou (1920-1930), and the landscape of Kavala (1904).

Bertuch F.J.J, Εικονολογία Παιδική

– The wonderful illustrated edition Iconology for children by the German publisher Friedrich Bertuch, with more than 440 engravings of animals, plants, costumes, monuments, musical instruments, machines, minerals and much more.

Δ. Σολωμός, Ύμνος είς την Ελευθερίανν, Παρίσι 1825,

Interested parties can participate in the auction by physical presence, online as well as through written and/or telephone bids. For more information visit www.vergosauctions.com.