Palma di Cesnola L.: “Cypern.” Jena [1878] First edition in German. In 4to 24x16cm, original burgundy cloth, text clean, complete 442p.,108 plates and 2 maps, overall very good. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was an Italian American officer who after the civil war has been appointed Consul of United States to Larnaca, Cyprus (1865-1877). He spent his stay there carrying out excavations which resulted in the discovery of a large amount of antiquities. The collection was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of art and Cesnola became his first director after his return in US. His account is of the outmost value for Cyprus. Blackmer 1237, not in Atabey