Olivier VOUTIER
Mémoires du colonel Voutier sur la guerre actuelle des Grecs - Exemplaire aux armes du roi Ernest Auguste Ier de Hanovre
[Memoires of Colonel Voutier on the Present War of the Greeks – Copy Bearing the Arms of King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover]
Bossange frères|Paris 1823|12.8 x 20.2 cm|Relié
First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates after life drawings by Voutier, engraved on copper by Normand fils (cf. Loukia Droulia, 429; Blackmer, 1750; not in Atabey).
Half black shagreen binding, spine restored, with four raised bands ruled in triple gilt fillets, aubergine paper boards, boards faded, gilt armorial device stamped to the upper cover, modern bookplate pasted at the head of a pastedown, contemporary binding.
Scattered foxing.
"Voutier went to Greece in 1821 and acted as ADC to Mavrocordatos on the Peta campaign" (Leonora Navari).
Distinguished provenance: copy bearing the arms of King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (1771–1851), with his library’s red stamp on the verso of the title-page.
€1,850