Pouqueville, François Charles Hugues Laurent.

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

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Description

Voyage dans la Grèce. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1820-1821

first edition, 5 volumes, 8vo (206 x 122mm.), half-title in each volume, 5 frontispieces (4 lithographed and one engraved), 4 folding engraved maps, one engraved plan in volume 1 (p.93), one lithographed facsimile plate in volume 5 (p.383), errata leaf at end of volumes 1-4, contemporary half calf, some spotting to text, a few maps slightly stained (vol.5), lacking 3pp. 'avertissement' in vol.5, bindings slightly rubbed

Literature

cf. Blackmer 1346 (second edition); Contominas 578; cf. Droulia 1210-1213 (second edition); Atabey 990

Catalogue Note

This is Pouqueville's second work on Greece and contains an account of his experiences of Greek life as French consul at Ioannina where he spent the years 1805-1815.