Mazier de Heaume, Hippolyte.

Estimate

900 - 1,200 GBP

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Description

Voyage d'un jeune grec à Paris. Paris: Fr. Louis, 1824

first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (201 x 120mm.), half-titles (the first with the author's signature on verso), lithographed frontispiece in volume 1, errata leaf at end of each volume, contemporary red calf-backed boards, spines gilt, spines slightly faded

Provenance

Sefik E. Atabey, book label

Literature

not in Blackmer; Droulia 674-5; Atabey 794

Catalogue Note

"This is a curious work, rather in the manner of Barthélemy's 'Anacharsis' in reverse... [it] is philhellenic in character with many comparisons of Paris to Athens and Greece" (Atabey).