Lot 08013

Depping G., “La Grece ou description topographique de la Livadie de la Moree et de l’Archipel”, Paris 1830.

COMPLETE IN FOUR (4) VOLUMES. Second edition. 12mo (13x9cm), pp. 279, [1] + 186, [1] + 216 + 178, [1].

Complete including two folding frontispieces in Vol. I & II and a fiolding map of Greece. Original paper covers, rubbing and wear along extremities, light spotting inside, the folding map reinforced with paper addition on reverse.

Georges Depping (1784-1853) was a German-French historian that initially published his account about Greece during the Greek Revolution in 1823, providing a description of Greece and its habitants, the places and the people and following the increasing interest of the European public. This work was translated in German in 1824 & 1828 and also in Italian in 1832. Blackmer 472.