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MOUNT ATHOS. A collection of twenty six paper icons of Mount Athos, mounted in an album, with 50 albumen photographs of the Holy Mountain (most rather faded), two newspaper cuttings and one cut signature, (some leaves slightly soiled, a few tears), bound in a late 19th-century oblong folio album, upper cover with gilt title 'The Monasteries of Mount Athos' (slightly rubbed, lower cover affected by damp). A very rare collection of paper icons, all copper engravings on full sheets with margins with Greek captions or text except where stated, comprising: The Mother of God Platytera [Of the Sign] , [Mount Athos: ca. 1860?]. P.715 x 500mm., a variant of D. Papastratos 81-82. [View of the Holy Mountain of Athos ... on the eastern side] , hand-coloured lithograph after [?] Sokolov, in Russian, Moscow: by I.E. Smirnov, 1873. S.497 x 719mm. [View of the Holy Mountain of Athos ... on the south-western side] , hand-coloured lithograph, unsigned [?after Sokolov], in Russian, Moscow: by I.E. Smirnov, 1873. S.518 x 708mm. [Vatopedi Monastery, after a photograph] , lithograph, [Vienna]: 1879. S.574 x 793mm., D.P.446. [St. Dimitrios and his Skete near Vatopedi] , [Venice: 2nd half of 18th Century]. P.390 x 270mm., D.P.450. [Monastery of Pantokratoros] , [Mount Athos: mid 19th Century]. P.515 x 405mm., D.P.478. [Monastery of Pantokratoros] , Mount Athos: 1 February 1844. P.395 x 310mm., D.P.479. [Monastery of Stavronikita] , Mount Athos: 1832. P.378 x 304mm., D.P.507. [The Mother of God Portaitissa and the Monastery of Iviron] , in Greek and Russian, Moscow: November 1838. P.630 x 530mm., D.P.455. [Monastery of Philotheou] , in Greek with Russian imprint, Moscow: 4 August 1849. P.707 x 550mm., D.P.497. [The Mother of God Oikonomissa, the Monastery of the Great Lavra and Scenes from the Life of St. Athanasios] , Mount Athos: 8 July 1868. P.732 x 519., D.P.433. [Rumanian Skete of Podromos (John the Forerunner) of the Great Lavra] , lithograph, in Rumanian and Russian, Bucurest: by J. Pernet, [ca. 1865]. S.562 x 810. [St. Anna and her Skete of the Great Lavra] , [Mount Athos: first quarter of 19th Century]. P.386 x 298mm., D.P.437. [Monastery of St. Paul] , by Thomas Isidorou of Krousovo after Archimandrite Sophoronos, Kariyes, Mount Athos: June 1851. P.432 x 311mm., D.P.504. [Monastery of Dionysiou] , Vienna: 2 May 1780. P.566 x 733mm., D.P.469. [St. Nicholas and the Monastery of Grigoriou] , by the Monk Theophylaktos, [Mount Athos]: 1819. P.430 x 310mm., D.P.512. [Monastery of Simonopetra] , by Ioannis (Kaldis) Lesvios, Mount Athos: 20 March 1868. P.785 x 570mm., D.P.499. [The Forty Holy Martyrs (Patrons of Xeropotamou Monastery)] , Venice: 1764. P.645 x 420mm., D.P.482. [Monastery of Saint Panteleimon] , in Greek and Russian, lithograph, [Russia: 2nd half of 19th Century]. S:490 x 340mm. (loose). [St. George and the Monastery of Xenophontos] , by the painter Nikiphoros, [Mount Athos]: 1798. P.467 x 343mm., D.P.508. [Monastery of Docheiariou] , by Ioannis Antonios Zoulianis (Giannantonio Zuliani), printed in sepia, Venice: 25 July 1819. P.675 x 550mm., D.P.492. [Monastery of Konstamonitou] , by Ioannis Antonios Zoulianis, [Venice]: August 1818. P.543 x 427mm., D.P.521. [Monastery of Zographou] , [Mount Athos]: 1843 (or later). P.517 x 681mm., D.P.489. [Monastery of Chilandari] , lithograph, in Slavonic, [?Mount Athos or Serbia]: 1855. S.703 x 498mm. [Monastery of Esphigmenou] , lithograph, Constantinople: 1881. S.605 x 445mm., D.P.517. [Saints of Mount Athos] , lithograph, in Russian, St. Petersburg: by Ivan Efimov, 1869. S.412 x 558mm. [General View of the Holy Mountain] , by the Monk Dionysios, [Mount Athos: 31 August 1880]. P.495 x 648., a variant of D.P.429 (without imprint). Collected by J. Athelston Riley on his visit to Mount Athos in 1883, this collection of paper icons represent a portion of the some 600 recorded examples dating from the 17th century which have survived. They are pasted in the album in the