Chateaubriand, François René de.

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

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Description

Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem et de Jérusalem à Paris, en allant par la Grèce, et revenant par l'Egypte, la Barbarie et l'Espagne. Paris: Le Normant, 1811

first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo (194 x 125mm.), half-titles, large folding engraved map, folding plate in volume 3, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end of volume 3, modern blue half morocco, top edges gilt, lacking a preliminary leaf in vol.1 (?dedication leaf), slightly wormed at end of vol.2 in upper margin (occasionally touching headline letters)

Literature

Weber I, 21; cf. Blackmer 328, Cobham-Jeffery p.10 and Atabey 225 (various other editions); not in Hilmy

Catalogue Note

"[Chateaubriand] journeyed to the East as a pilgrim, in a manner fanciful and extravagant. Volume 1 contains Chateaubriand's impressions of Greece, and their supposed exactness brought him a tremendous success. In fact be borrowed heavily from his predecessors, since he himself only visited the Morea and Attica, and he also invented stories to complement and support his ideas of a liberated Greece... The Itinéraire inspired great philhellenic sentiment and may be said to have influenced the course of the Greek revolution" (Blackmer).