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💑💘 is everywhere! A totally honest book dedication from Luigi Palma di Censola to his wife from 1887!

✍ Palma di Cesnola (July 29, 1832 – November 20, 1904) was an -American soldier, diplomat and amateur who was at in (1865–1877)

✍Cesnola, General Louis Palma di (1877) A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during ten years’ residence as American Consul in that island. London: John Murray Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Manuscript and Rare Books Collection.



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💑💘 is everywhere! A totally honest book dedication from Luigi Palma di Censola to his wife from 1887!

✍ Palma di Cesnola (July 29, 1832 – November 20, 1904) was an -American soldier, diplomat and amateur who was at in (1865–1877)

✍Cesnola, General Louis Palma di (1877) A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during ten years’ residence as American Consul in that island. London: John Murray Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Manuscript and Rare Books Collection.



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☃️ “In the winter these same mountains [Mount Troédos] will be unapproachable, and so deep under that Government Cottage disappears and needs no caretaker".

🧣 KCMG CBE (19 November 1881 – 1 November 1955) was an official in the British Foreign and Colonial Office. He served as Governor of (1926–1932).

✏Storss, Ronald Sir (1937) Orientations. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Manuscript and Rare Books Collections

➡️© Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Engravings, Old Photographs and Watercolours Collection

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🌿Both these lakes abound in wild fowl, of which the most beautiful and interesting are the flamingos—best seen in early summer; their rose-pink Plumage looks lovely against the turquoise waters of the lake.

👉 M. Chapman (d. 1977) was a who carried a “cinematographic camera” in her in , , and .

✍Chapman, Olive Murray (1937) Across Cyprus. With a Foreword by Viscount Mersey. Illustrated. London: John Lane the Bodley Head.
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🥾“Not far from these was the more squalid quarter of the shoemakers, where all down an inky alley busy hands were glancing, and boots brown and black, and slippers crimson and yellow, dangled in front of what were less like shops than sheds. Somewhere too in the same neighbourhood a sharp turn brought one amongst the smiths and the iron-workers, where black puffs of vapour floated faintly amongst the awnings, and far away in the gloom forges spat and sparkled.”

👉 Hurrell Mallock (7 February 1849 – 2 April 1923) was an and who visited the Island of at the end of December #1887.

✍Mallock, William Hurrell (1889) In an enchanted island; or, A winter's retreat in Cyprus. London: Bentley & Son. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Manuscript and Rare Books Collection

© Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Engravings, Old Photographs and Watercolours Collection

👩‍🏫 “The Holy Land seems to be considered quite the tour for a gentleman. ‘And a strong lady may accompany her husband,’ says Dr. Macleod. […] And if our education does not enable us to protect ourselves from the influence of such dangerous opinions as, it is said, we shall hear in the varied society with which it may be our lot to mingle, what is that education worth ?”

👉 (1843–1926) and (1843–1920), Agnes and Margaret Smith were , Aramaic, and language scholars. They learned more than 12 languages between them, and became acclaimed in their academic fields, and benefactors to the , especially to , .

✍Smith, Agnes (1870) Eastern Pilgrims: The Travels of three Ladies. London: Hurst and Blackett.

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“ is the second town in , the emporium of its commerce and the residence of innumerable consuls from the different European powers, who parade the streets with as much as self-importance as if they were ambassadors.”

Kinneir, John Macdonald (1818) Journey Through Asia Minor, Armenia, and Koordistan in the Years 1813 and 1814 […]. London: John Murray. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Manuscript and Rare Books Collection.

© Engravings, Old Photographs and Watercolours Collection - Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

“No painter's wildest fancy has pictured anything so fantastic as these Cyprian castles, and, standing at the foot of the last steep leading to the gate of Kantara, and involuntarily recalling the fairy-towers of romance, the traveller might imagine it the stronghold of a Sleeping Beauty, untouched by change or time for a thousand years !

was a and scholar. In December #1887, while holding a Craven Travelling Fellowship for the University, he was commissioned with others by the Committee to conduct researches in Cyprus, by and .

Hogarth, David George (1889) Devia Cypria / Notes of an / Archaeological Journey in Cyprus / in 1888. With Map and Illustrations. London [Oxford printed]: Horace Hart [for] Henry Frowde. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Manuscript and Rare Books Collection.

© Engravings, Old Photographs and Watercolours Collection - Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

💑💘 is everywhere! A totally honest book dedication from Luigi Palma di Censola to his wife from 1887!

✍ Palma di Cesnola (July 29, 1832 – November 20, 1904) was an -American soldier, diplomat and amateur who was at in (1865–1877)

✍Cesnola, General Louis Palma di (1877) A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during ten years’ residence as American Consul in that island. London: John Murray Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Manuscript and Rare Books Collection.



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👉🏛Did you know that 's first major collection, found at one or more sanctuaries near in in 1870, and that this collection was instead acquired by the recently-estabished in ?

⚱“About a dozen of these vases were purloined by my workmen, and found their way to European dealers in antiquities, and thence to several of the museums on the Continents. The rest, several hundred in number, are all in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York"

✍ Palma di Cesnola (July 29, 1832 – November 20, 1904) was an -American soldier, diplomat and amateur who was at in (1865–1877)

✍Cesnola, General Louis Palma di (1877) A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during ten years’ residence as American Consul in that island. London: John Murray Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Manuscript and Rare Books Collection.



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