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Guys, Pierre Augustin.
Estimate
600 - 900 GBP
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Description
- Voyage littéraire de la Grèce, ou lettres sur les grecs, anciens et modernes, avec un parallele de leurs moeurs... nouvelle edition revue, corrigée & considérablement augmentée. On y a joint un voyage de Sophie à Constantinople. Paris: chez la veuve Duchesne, 1776
Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (196 x 115mm.), half-titles, 7 engraved plates, 4 folding, contemporary mottled calf gilt
Literature
Blackmer 769, Atabey 547 and Weber II, 529 (all 1783 edition); Contominas 315
Catalogue Note
Enlarged second edition. Guys was sent to Constantinople in 1739, to the business house of his uncles, and spent thirty years in the Levant.