ARGENTI, Philip P. The Occupation of Chios by the Germans and their Asministration of the Island. Described in contemporary Documents. Cambridge, University Press. 1966.
8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-wrappers retaining price; pp. xiv, 375, two maps, illustrations in the text, a few plates after photographs; near-fine in the rarely preserved wrappers.
Scarce first edition of an important and detailed documentation of the history of Chios since 1912, focusing on he dark days of German occupation with documents in English, German and Greek. The Greek jurist, diplomat, historian of Chios, lawyer and bibliophile (1891-1974) was a descendant of one Lorenzo Argenti, who aftet participating in the first Crusade (1096-1099) settled in Constantinople. The Argenti family lived in Chios from 1511 onwards. He founded and provided the Korais library in Chios.
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