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Provisional Government of Greece. Third period, No 17,164. The Executive Body. Because all the relics of Antiquity are national property – In Nafplio, 22 February 1826. The President Georgios Kountouriotis. Gikas Botasis. Anagnostis Spiliotakis. Konstantinos Mavromichalis. Ioannis Kolettis. The General Secretary A. Mavrokordatos. Exact copy of the original. In Nafplio, 24 February 1826. The General Secretary of Interior Georgios Glarakis

Single page, 28 x 22 cm. – The Administration Printing House

Decree by the Executive Body regarding the protection of antiquities in Athens and Attica in general.

Thon Donation, A 10530

 

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No. 18. The President of the Third National Assembly Declares. Written on 16 April 1826. The President of the Third National Assembly Panoutzos Notaras. The head secretary A. Papadopoulos 

Single page, 37 x 23 cm. – The Administration Printing House

The Third National Assembly announces, through its president, that due to critical circumstances it has decided to dissolve temporarily, with an 11-member Administrative Committee undertaking the political and military affairs and the next National Assembly convening as the 13-member Assembly Committee.

Archive of Printed Documents, Ε 134

 

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No. 19. The President of the Third National Assembly Declares. Written on 16 April 1826. The President of the Third National Assembly Panoutzos Notaras. The head secretary A. Papadopoulos 

Single page, 36.4 x 23 cm. – The Administration Printing House

Declaration by the Third National Assembly before dissolving temporarily due to critical circumstances in the field of war. It is addressed mainly to the international community, comprising a report of the reasons why the Greeks revolted and the goals of the Revolution, also assuring that the Greek nation “is resolute on the decision to be lost to this world instead of falling yet another time under the yoke of the Ottoman tyranny”.

Archive of Printed Documents, Ε 200

 

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No 1. Declaration of the Administrative Committee of Greece. In Nafplio 18 April 1826. The President Andreas Zaimis. P. Mavromichalis. Anagnostis Deligiannis. Georgios Sisinis. A.C. Anargyrou. Dimitrios Tzamados. Anagnostis Monarchidis. Spyridon Trikoupis. P. Dimitrakopoulos. The General Secretary K. Zografos. Exact copy of the original. The General Secretary Georgios Glarakis. 

Single page, 34.2 x 21.2 cm. – The Administration Printing House

The first declaration of the Administrative Committee of Greece, urging the people to fight for the national cause and the soldiers to imitate “the immortal guards of Missolonghi”, also warning that it will be relentless to those who will harm the Struggle in any way.

Archive of Printed Documents, Ε 202

 

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No. 18. The Assembly Committee to the People. In Nafplio, 24 April 1826. The President Germanos of Patras. Porfyrios of Arta. Panoutzos Notaras. Vasileios N. Boutouris. Anagnostis Kopanitzas. Anastasios Londos. Georgios Dareiotis. Georgis Boukouris. Georgios Ainian. E. Xenos. N. Renieris. Nikolaos I. Velisarios. The General Secretary C. Klonaris.   

Single page, 27.7 x 22.8 cm. – The Administration Printing House. With the handwritten indication “Exact copy of the original, by the registrar of the Criminal Court”

The Assembly Committee announces the establishment of a five-member “Criminal Court” stressing that “order cannot be introduced without laws, courts and Administration being obeyed; without order, the political government is reduced to utter confusion…”

Archive of Printed Documents, Ε 281

 

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The Essential Knowledge for children, who are advanced in reading. A most useful book for young ages, translated from French by Ν. Ε. And printed with expenses paid by Pavlos Patrikios. 25 May 1826.

Quarto, 60 p., 18 x 27 cm. – The Administration Printing House, Nafplio

A schoolbook similar to the contemporary one titled The World and Us. The initials N.E. hide the identity of Nikolaos Fardoulis, the significant educator and author of schoolbooks from Smyrna. The French original, written by educator, author and publisher Pierre Blanchard (1772-1856) had the title Premières Connaissances à l’usage des enfants qui commencent à lire and was illustrated.

Rare and Valuable Books Collection, ΕΚΠ-457-R

 

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Organization Chart of the Septinsular Army Corps in Greece − Nafplio, 23 June 1826

Two pages, 24.2 x 18.8 cm. – [The Administration Printing House, Nafplio]

The charter and the results of the first Assemblies of the Eptanisians who were in revolutionary Greece and formed a special force of the army. The date is the one of the charter. It was printed later, after the seven-member committee was elected, to organize the corps and appoint the military leader.

Archive of Printed Documents, Ε 266

 

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Protocol number. Philanthropic Society of Greece. Registration of… certificate of Dimitrios Giannelis to the first order of the Philanthropic Society of Greece in Nafplio   

Single page, 29.4 x 20.3 cm. [The Administration Printing House, Nafplio]

Certificate for the members of the Philanthropic Society of Greece, founded in 1824, with blanks to be filled in with names and other necessary information. This copy was filled, signed and given to Giannoulis Dimitriou, a powerful notable of Andros, who became a member of the “first order” on 10 July 1826, in the category of members who were able to contribute financially to the cause of the Society.

Archive of Printed Documents, Ε 284

 

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No 122. To Eptanisians and other Patriots – In Nafplio, 1 September 1826. The Committee of the Septinsular Army Corps 

Single page, 33.2 x 25.7 cm. – [The Administration Printing House, Nafplio]

A plea for financial support to the Septinsular Army Corps of volunteers, which would be campaigning in Eastern Mainland Greece on order of the revolutionary government.

Archive of Printed Documents, Ε 267

 

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General Gazette of Greece, issue 1 in Nafplio, Saturday 16 October 1826

Two pages, 28 x 42 cm. – Administration Printing House

This is the first issue of the second period, and this copy was received by subscriber physician and revolutionary Petros Stefanitzis from Lefkada.

Rare and Valuable Books Collection, Π 894

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No 4060. The Administrative Committee of Greece Declares – In Nafplio on [blank] November 1826. President Andreas Zaimis. D. Tzamados. P. Mavromichalis. Anagnostis Diligiannis. Georgios Sisinis. A.C. Anargyrou. A. Monarchidis. K. Zotos. Ioannis Vlachos. P.D. Dimitrakopoulos. The General Secretary G. Glarakis. Exact copy of the original, the General Secretary Georgios Glarakis.

Single page, 28.2 x 22.5 cm. – The Administration Printing House

The Administrative Committee of Greece announces its temporary transfer from Nafplio to Aigina “from where we are able to survey more closely the war and act more efficiently”.

Archive of Printed Documents, Ε 205

 

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Political Indoctrination for the Greeks Composed in Italian by Philhellene C. A. P. Translated by Nikolaos C. Pagkalakis 

Octavo (21.7 x 14.5 cm), 101 p. – Hydra Printing House, 1826

The book was written as a text of questions and answers, in Italian, upon a request by Iosif N. Kiappe, publisher of the newspaper The Friend of the Law, to Italian Philhellene Count Alerino Palma.

Rare and Valuable Books Collection, ΦΛΣ-1689-C

 

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Political Indoctrination for the Greeks Composed in Italian by Philhellene C. A. P. Translated by Nikolaos C. Pagkalakis 

Octavo (21.7 x 14.5 cm), 101 p. – Hydra Printing House, 1826

Citizenship manual written in Italian by Philhellene Count Alerino Palma and translated in modern Greek by Nikolaos Pagkalakis. The author states in a footnote: “[…] I should confess that Mr Iosif Kiappe, editor of the newspaper The Friend of the Law, inspired the idea of composing a political indoctrination book for use by the Greeks”. One of the two copies in NLG used to belong to Anastasios Polyzoidis, a significant political figure of the Revolution and later famous judge and minister.

Rare and Valuable Books Collection, ΦΛΣ-1689-C α

 

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Compilation of the Principles of the Original Rights regarding Marine Prey and Neutrality based on the European Treaty of the Rights of Nations. By Count A. Palma. Translated from French.

Octavo (23 x 16.5 cm), 39 + 1 blank + 15 p. – Hydra Printing House, 1826

European laws regarding to matters of great interest to revolutionary Greeks: the matter of neutrality during war and the matter of marine prey. The Philhellene author dedicates the book to Admiral Andreas Miaoulis and notes that he has aimed to produce “a textbook to be used as a guideline for the brave Captains, so that they will not deviate from the law but discern the legal prey, and for those who will later be appoint to compose maritime laws for Greece”.

Rare and Valuable Books Collection, ΝΟΜ-2076-X

 

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Compilation of the Principles of the Original Rights regarding Marine Prey and Neutrality based on the European Treaty of the Rights of Nations. By Count A. Palma. Translated from French.

Octavo (23 x 16.5 cm), 39 + 1 blank + 15 p. – Hydra Printing House, 1826

European laws regarding to matters of great interest to revolutionary Greeks: the matter of neutrality during war and the matter of marine prey. The Philhellene author dedicates the book to Admiral Andreas Miaoulis and notes that he has aimed to produce “a textbook to be used as a guideline for the brave Captains, so that they will not deviate from the law but discern the legal prey, and for those who will later be appoint to compose maritime laws for Greece”.

Rare and Valuable Books Collection, Mavrokordatos-Baltatzis Library, ΝΟΜ-2076-X α

 

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Organization Chart of the Irregular Army of Greece. Composed, submitted for approval by the Third Sacred Assembly of the Greeks and published by Emmanouil Spyridonos from Levadia of Boeotia. For the recovery of the paralysed Irregular Army and for the greater good of the Greek Nation. 

Quarto (22.5 x 15 cm), 62 p. – Athens Printing House, 1826

One of the two books published by the Athens Printing House. The other one was titled Lyrical and Bacchic Poetry by Athanasios Christopoulos. The rest of the publications were pamphlets, single pages, and the Newspaper of Athens.

Rare and Valuable Books Collection, ΣΤΡ-ΝΑΥΤ-498-M

 

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Secret Councils and the Peoples from 1815 to this day, by Mr Bignon. Third edition revised corrected and enriched in Paris in April 1823. Translated from French together with the Memorandum on Greece by Mr Chateaubriand by N. Spiliadis. 

Octavo (22.5 x 16 cm), ιε + 260 + 7 p. without numbers – Nafplio, Administration Printing House

Translation of the work by Louis-Pierre-Edouard Bignon titled Les Cabinets et les Peuples, part of which dealt with the historical fate of Greece, and the work Note sur la Grèce by François-René Chateaubriand. The book was published in February 1826 and 708 copies were pre-purchased by 271 subscribers.

General Collection, ΙΣΤ-424

 

The year 1826 was marked by events that defined the course of the Struggle. The Saint Petersburg Protocol was signed by Great Britain and Russia in April 1826, providing for the intervention of the two countries between the revolutionary Greeks and the Sublime Porte with an aim to create an autonomous Greek State tributary to the Sultan. That same month, the fall of Missolonghi revived the philhellenic interest in the Greek Struggle throughout Europe and America. Also important were the developments in the field of war: Ibrahim, continuing his military campaign in the Peloponnese, attacked Mani but failed to conquer it, while Kutahi Pasha began the siege of the Acropolis in the framework of his campaign in Central Greece. In the end of that year, the victory of Karaiskakis in the battle of Arachova, which lasted   from 14 to 23 November, restored hope for the Greeks.

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