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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large folio pp viii, 234. Printed by the master printer Philippe Renouard. An important association copy with warm presentation inscription signed by the Mayor of Split to an outstanding British historian and political activist shortly before the First World War). Handsome , large heavy book. Bound in half brown leather, attractive marbled paper with gilt ruling to boards; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine brightly lettered in gilt and with 5 raised bands. A sumptuously produced and profusely illustrated monograph on the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian at Split in Croatia. With the 17 plates as called for, including 9 double, triple and quadruple folding plates, one of which is coloured. With warm presentation inscription on half title, dated 31 March 1913, signed by Vinko Katalinic (1857-1917), the Mayor of Split, to Dr R. W. Seton-Watson. Loosely inserted is the contemporary "business card" of Mayor Katalinic, who was a Croatian entrepreneur and politician as well as a strong proponent of Croatian folk music. He was a pan-Slavic enthusiast who actively campaigned for the Balkan nations against their Ottoman imperial rulers. Dr. Robert William Seton-Watson (1879-1951) shared in Mayor Katalinic's fight for the independence of the Balkan nations, and intrigued to bring about the break-up of Austria-Hungary and the emergence of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia during and after the First World War. The warm inscription, in Serbo-Croat, mentions that the book is a gift from the mayor and the "general administration of Split". Internally clean and tight. Extremities a little rubbed in places; bottom 70 mm of front joint cracked but holding; short tear to very small part of margin to pp 201-202, else VG indeed. Weight 5 kgs. Scarce. Internally clean and tight. Extremities a little rubbed in places; bottom 70 mm of front joint cracked but holding; short tear to very small part of margin to pp 201-202, else nearVG+ Weight 5 kgs.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Le palais de Dioclétien. Préface de Ch. Diehl. Paris : Librairie générale de l'architecture et des arts décoratifs 1912. Large folio. 2 p., viii, 232 p out of 234 (one errata leave missing), XVII loose-leaf plates. One coloured. Profusely illustrated throughout. Some tears to the plates.A splendid monograph on the palace of Diocletian in Split, meanwhile an UNESCO World Heritage Monument. Very rare. No copies in the trade. I found in the US one copy in the Metropolitan, one copy at Harvard.