136 - [Athens]. [GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGE].

[Athens]. [GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGE]. [Collection of 2 titles]. A collection of the author’s two works: the original and the polemic published four years later. -Ancient and Modern Athens, and the Present State of the Turkish Empire, containing the life of Sultan Muhammad IV. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1675. Small 12mo, (12) ff., 456 pp., (17) ff., 1 folding plate. Contemporary havana calfskin, decorated ribbed spine (binding worn, quires loose, missing the illustration of the ancient theater; pp. 229–232 detached with a large tear but no pages missing). A description of Athens under Ottoman rule—the authenticity of which Jacob Spon, a 17th-century French scholar, would later dispute—is presented as based on the observations of Guillet’s brother, whereas it is in fact a compilation of various sources. Guillet de Saint-George (1625–1705), a historiographer of the Academy in 1682, became known for his writings on Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Having never visited Greece himself, he attributed his works to a fictional brother, who was supposedly an escapee from Tunis who had left for Greece in 1669. This in no way hindered the success of his works. -Letters Written on a Dissertation Concerning a Journey to Greece, published by Mr. Spon In Paris, by Estienne Michallet, 1679. Small 12mo, (6) leaves, including 1 blank leaf, 288 pp., 1 map, marbled fawn sheepskin of the period, decorated ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt title and panels, speckled edges (worn binding, 6 preliminary leaves, and browned quires). The only edition of this work, in which Guillet responds to the criticisms leveled by Jacob Spon against his work on Greece, *Ancient and Modern Athens* (1675). Complete with its double engraved map of the Thracian Bosporus and the Hellespont, intended to compare it with Spon’s version. Blackmer, 149 and 151.