89 - DELISLE DE SALES: HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE ET PARTICULIÈRE DE LA GRÈCE AVEC TOUTES LES CARTES ET LES PLANCHES. PARIS, 1783

DELISLE DE SALES: HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE ET PARTICULIÈRE DE LA GRÈCE AVEC TOUTES LES CARTES ET LES PLANCHES. PARIS, 1783 First edition, in 8vo, complete 13 volumes, bound in 7, contemporary marbled boards trimmed, complete: 343p., 360 p., 358p., 340 p., 324 p., 324 p. 328 p., 324p., 312 p., 364 p., 320 p., 148 p. {164}, 100 p. and 44 engraved copper plates (several folded), including 10 maps and 5 letterpress tables, text clean and bright, some light scattered spots in few pages, overall in very good condition. A landmark of the Enlightenment and Philhellenism. Delisle de Sales (1741-1816) was an ardent Philhellene and provocative French philosopher and historian. He tried through his extensive work to describe the splendor of the Ancient Greek spirit and the continuity of the Greek nation up to the present times. It chronicles the entirety of Greek history, he emphasizes the birth of democracy, philosophy, arts, legislation, civic structures presenting Greece as the ideal model for Europe. A bulky work on 13 volumes that boosted Philhellenism. The work is very richly illustrated with more than 50 views and maps (many folded)