Maxime RAYBAUD, Alphonse RABBE (Pref.)
Mémoires sur la Grèce, pour servir à l'histoire de la guerre de l'indépendance, accompagnés de plans topographiques, avec une introduction historique, par Alph. Rabbe[Memoirs on Greece, Serving as a Contribution to the History of the War of Independence, Accompanied by Topographical Plans, with a Historical Introduction, by Alph. Rabbe]
Tournachon-Molin|Paris 1824-1825|13.5 x 21.5 cm|2 volumes brochés
First edition illustrated with three folding maps out of text.
"This work is one of the best contemporary accounts of the Greek War of Independence". Atabey 1014.
Minor losses to the corners of the spines and boards, uniformly browned boards, a few small spots of foxing.
Maxime Raybaud (1795–1894) was a senior officer in the Corps of Philhellenes and aide-de-camp to the President of the Executive Power of the Greek government.
He assisted the insurgents between 1821 and 1823, and again in 1825 and 1826.
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