123 - [Greece]. [GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGE].

[Greece]. [GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGE]. Letters Written on the Basis of an Essay on a Journey to Greece. Published by Mr. Spon. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1679. In-12, (6) leaves, including 1 blank leaf, 288 pp., 1 plate (2 maps on one sheet). Fine, finely marbled fawn sheepskin of the period; decorated raised spine; gilt title; ornamented panels; gilt roulette on the edges; edges speckled with red (binding rubbed, corners worn, cap bands missing, scattered foxing, and some brown spots on the first few leaves, small lateral tear on p. 97). Only edition. In this rare work, André Georges Guillet, known as Guillet de Saint-George (1625–1705), a French historiographer and author of works on the Ottoman Empire and Greece, responds to the criticisms leveled by Jacob Spon, a 17th-century French physician, archaeologist, and scholar, against his famous work on Greece under Ottoman rule, *Ancient and Modern Athens* (1675). Spon deemed it “apocryphal,” and Guillet set out to explain “his” Greece to him… Spon’s response was published the same year. It includes a pair of black-and-white copperplate engravings of the Thracian Bosporus and the Hellespont, intended to compare with Spon’s version. Only the BnF holds copies of this work. Blackmer, 151.