First edition (cf. Loukia Droulia 1817, Contominas 595, Blackmer 1372. Not in Atabey.)
Contemporary half blond calf, spine with five false raised bands adorned with gilt garlands, gilt tooling in compartments and blind fillets, gilt rolls at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.
Scattered foxing.
Before becoming the well-known historian and committed republican, Edgar Quinet (1803–1875) was part of the short-lived scientific commission of the Morea in 1829.
This volume records his impressions, with the second part titled De la Nature et de l'Histoire dans leurs rapports avec les Traditions Religieuses et Epiques.
Provenance: Library stamp of François Guizot on the half-title. Guizot himself, who in 1846 expelled Quinet from the Collège de France—along with his friend Michelet—for their anti-clerical stance.
Later belonged to Guizot’s descendant Robert de Witt, who signed and stamped the first flyleaf on March 11, 1875.