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125 - JAMES EMERSON and GIUSEPPE PECHIO: Tableau de la Grèce en 1825 ou récit des voyages de J. Emerson et du Compte Pecchio. Paris, 1826
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JAMES EMERSON and GIUSEPPE PECHIO: Tableau de la Grèce en 1825 ou récit des voyages de J. Emerson et du Compte Pecchio. Paris, 1826 First edition in French. In 8vo, contemporary leather over boards, boards slightly rubbed at edges. Text clean and bright. Complete: [17], 464 p. On the front pastedown, fine ex-libris of Cattaui Pasha (1862-1942), an important Egyptian businessman, writer, and politician. Overall in very good condition. The work comprises the accounts of Emerson and Pecchio from their travels in Greece. Pecchio traveled to Greece hoping to witness a glorious triumph of the Greeks, his enthusiasm fueled by various reports and by the wave of Philhellenic idealism then sweeping across Europe. He became bitterly disillusioned but returned several times and ultimately met his death in Aegina in 1826. The present French edition contains additional material by Jean Cohen on events up to 1826, absent from the English edition. An important Philhellenic work. References: Atabey 396, Blackmer 549 (both this edition)
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Travels and discoveries in Greece and the Levant The Library of a Greek gentleman, Part DAuction house
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