[Mentelle], "Géographie abrégée de la Grèce Ancienne, comprenant une description de la Grèce", Paris, 1772. FIRST and ONLY edition. Small 8vo, (18x10cm), pp.166. Contemporary full leather, spine richly gild. Complete, including the folding copper engraved map of Greece (30x22cm, Zacharakis 2202), drawn by Mentelle and engraved by Dezauche (one very early work of the famous Geographer). Mentelle was one of the most important French geographers of the late 18th century. Mentelles work is a full geographical description of Greece, that followed the great success of Le Roys publication on Athens and other parts of Greece (Lot.6204). Based on ancient geographers and contemporary manuscript accounts of travellers, Mentelle gives a detailed description of Greece, region by region. Although he focuses on the ancient times, he usually compares with the actual situation of the country under the Ottoman rule. Not in Atabey or Blackmer. Rare.