Book Details
1st Edition. ix, 493pp with 6 black and white illustrations, 7 maps and plans in text (some extending) and a large folding map of Cyprus at rear.
Book Description
Very good plus black cloth with titles in blue on spine and front board. In a very good plus dust wrapper missing a small section at the bottom of the spine. Small chip at to right of head of spine.
Some foxing to top, leading and bottom edges. Some occasional internal foxing.
This book is in beautiful condition. The cloth is virtually pristine with no marks or blemishes and the dust wrapper is also in excellent condition, except for the small section missing at the tail of spine.
It is very unusual to see such a  bright, tight copy of the 1st Edition of this book in a dust wrapper.
The folding map of Cyprus at the rear is also is excellent condition with no marks, tears or blemishes and is 20in x 12in/50cm x 30cm.
About the Author: Rupert Gunnis (1899–1965)
Rupert Forbes Gunnis was a civil servant in the British Colonial Government of Cyprus holding the position of Inspector of Antiquities. He was later the curator of the Tunbridge Wells Museum in Kent.
Apart from his book “Historic Cyprus”, Gunnis is best known as a historian of British sculpture. His ”Dictionary of British Sculpture 1660-1851” has been the standard reference work on this subject since it was first published in 1953.
About this Book
This is a semi-official guide to Cyprus written in the mid- 1930s. Gunnis, as the Inspector of Antiquities on Cyprus, was in an ideal position to spend many years researching his subject. When it was written this book was the first and only comprehensive account of the towns and villages of Cyprus, their history and  buildings, ruins, monuments and tombs.
Gunnis writes in the Preface: “This volume has taken me three years to write - most pleasant years, which have enabled me to know even better the Cypriots, both Greek and Turk, without whose help this book could never have been written ..... it is possible with truth to say of Cyprus, as the author of Les Iles Mediterraneenes once wrote, “Cyprus, a little world in itself ... no wild beast or reptiles disturb the solitude. The water is sweet and cool, the wine is nectar and the food plain but good.”