[Claude SAVARY] Claude-Etienne SAVARY, Domenico SESTINI
Lettres sur la Grèce. - Voyage dans la Grèce asiatique, à la péninsule de Cyzique, à Brusse et à Nicée; avec des détails sur l'histoire naturelle de ces contrées[Letters on Greece. – Journey through Asiatic Greece, the Peninsula of Cyzicus, Brussa and Nicaea; with Notes on the Natural History of these Regions]
Favre|Paris 1792|12.5 x 18.7 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
Second edition, embellished with a copper-engraved map by Giraud l’aîné, folded, together with a copper-engraved plan of the labyrinth of Knossos by Chapuy.
This edition is not recorded by Contominas, Atabey or Blackmer (1493 for the first edition).
Contemporary half mottled sheep with parchment corners, smooth spine decorated with delicate black fillets, paper labels serving as title pieces, green paper boards with some rubbing, sprinkled edges.
Spine foot restored.
Three gatherings very lightly toned, otherwise a clean, fresh copy.
Bound at the end is the first edition of the French translation prepared by Jean-Claude Pingeron of Dominique Sestini’s work: <
€1,200