Essais sur le droit public et privé de la République athénienne. Le droit public.

First edition.

Green half morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands and blind-tooled compartments, a few rubs to the spine, marbled paper sides, comb-marbled endpapers and doublures, sprinkled edges, contemporary binding.

Georges Perrot (1832–1914), a French Hellenist and archaeologist, undertook in 1861, together with the architect Edmond Guillaume and the travelling physician Jules Delbet, a scientific and literary mission to Greece and Asia Minor on behalf of the French Ministry of Public Instruction, the results of which were published in 1872.

He would later be the author, with Charles Chipiez, of the monumental Histoire de l'art dans l'Antiquité, Égypte, Assyrie, Perse, Asie mineure, Grèce, Etrurie, Rome (Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1882–1914).

We include, on a loose leaf, a dated and signed autograph letter addressed to M. J. Jahègue, Doctor of Law, announcing the gift of a book (certainly this one) originating from the Plocque sale. 

A finely preserved copy in its contemporary binding.