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Post, Henry A.V.
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- A Visit to Greece and Constantinople, in the year 1827-8. Washington: Sleight & Robinson for G.C. and H. Carvill [&c.], 1830
first edition, 8vo (206 x 122mm.), contemporary calf, half-title bound after title, spotted, first few leaves slightly stained in corner, binding rubbed and rebacked
Literature
Contonimas 569; Droulia 1888; not in Blackmer, Weber or Atabey
Catalogue Note
an uncommon work. The author was an agent of the New York Greek Committee, engaged in distributing provisions and clothing among the suffering people of Greece (preface). The appendix includes "a modern Greek ode" and a "list of the principal modern Greek writers and their works - collected chiefly from the lectures of Iakobakes Rizos".