Voyage litteraire de la Gréce ou lettres sur les grecs,anciens et modernes,avec un parallele de leus moeurs.

Third edition. Four volumes in 8vo. Vol I: Engraved frontispiece,(2),527 pgs and 8 plates(3 folding); vol II (2),382 pgs 1 folding plate.vol III : (2),373 pgs; Vol IV: (2),240 pgs, 4 leaves. Fine original french brown marbled leather with spine richly gilt with gilt lettering, thriple fillet on covers.Stamped ex libris from the library of Charles Comte de la Vaulx Baron de Vrecourt, Guidon de gendarmerie. Guys was a trader living inConstantinople and the levant for over thirty years.He described the costumes and habits of the modern greeks establishing a paralell with ancient times.Guys described in his letter many details of everyday´s life. This book arose the interest of the french ellites for Greece and the antiquity.It is one of the first books that provide anthropological descriptions on Greece. A fine copy of this classical book. Ref:Blackmer 769.Atabey 547