PACIFICO Pietro Antonio, "L’origine della Morea, doue si descriuono tutte le prouincie, l’origine d’essa, le città, il sito, i costumi di quei popoli...", Venezia e Milano, Marc’ Antonio Pandolfo Malatesta, [1686] (). FIRST EDITION. 2 parts each with his own title-page. 12mo, pp. 6, [13], 96, 118. Complete including halftitle and 2 title - pages, 1 folding map of Morea and 18 copper plates out text (some folding). A rare and important description of the Morea in the wake of the Venetian successes against the Turcs in the 1680s. Divided in two parts. The first part deals with historical and geographical information, very interestingly relating to local customs, with special reference to the rule of Venice. The second part focuses on the description of the most important cities of the 17th century Peloponnesus. The folded map, bearing the date 1685, depicts the entire peninsula with an indication of its regions. The eighteen plates depict some of the places described in the text: Corinth, Napoli Romania, Mistra, Maina, Zarnata, Kalamata, Passaua, Malvasia, Chielafa, Navarino, Modon, Coron, Belvedere, Antra Vida, Cast. Tornese, Patras, Sicionia, Leondari. The plans and provided information are considered historically important and accurate as Pacifico spent many years studying the topography of Greece from 1684-1688. Contemporary marbled paper boards, modern addition of tape on spine. Front board detached, along with the added spine. Repair on lower right parts of the title pages, as well as on only marginal parts of some plates, not affecting the engraved plates. Not in Blackmer, Atabey or Contominas. Very Rare.