Zygomalas Thedose et Jean (Ζυγομαλάς Θεοδόσιος και Ιωάννης): “Itineraire de Theodose Zygomalas 1576-77 dans Notice bibliographique sur Jean et Theodose Zygomalas’’ par Emile Legrand. Paris 1889 First and only edition. Tall 4to 27x18cm, original papercover rebaked and back cover renew, complete all texts of Zygomalas Notice 201p. and the others, in total 436p., clean and bright, overall very good First edition of the earliest comprehensive travel account written by a Greek after the fall of Byzantium. Emile Legrand discovered the only manuscript and other writings of Zygomalas among the papers of Stephan Gerlach (1546-1612) a German famous Theologian and traveler in the Levant who had many contacts with them. They have been published once, after a special conference of the Orientalists held in Stockholm, in 1889. Ιωάννης Ζυγομαλάς (Jean Zygomalas, the father)was born in Venetian Nafplio in 1498 and came from one of the leading families of the city. He received high education in Padova, became high official of the Oriental Church in Constantinople and took crucial part in the dialogues with the newly established Protestants Churches when they had to turn to Constantinople after the middle of 16th century. Crusius was in constant contact with him, Gerlach praised him and described in details in his Tagebuch their daily contacts in the 1570s. Legrand found and published in this collection also the precious life of Stavrakios Malaxos from Nafplio (a unique source for 16th century Nafplio) and several letters of Jean Zygomalas (in original Greek) Θεοδόσιος Ζυγομαλάς (Theodose Zygomalas, the son ) was born in Nafplio in 1544, he quickly arrived in high rank in Patriarchal Church and in autumn of 1576 had been charged by the Patriarch Jeremy to make a tour in several islands of the Archipelago, Greece and the western coast of Asia Minor. Gerlach who was in Constantinople at the time suggested him to keep notices and write an itinerary. This testimony survived, as well as several other writings of Ioannis, he continued to have close relations with Gerlach after his return in Constantinople. Theodose left Constantinople the 10th of October 1576, he visited Kallipoli (Gelibolu), Lapsakos, Tenedos, Nea and Palaia Phokea (Foca), Smirni (Izmir), Vryela (Urla), Neokastro(Kusadashi), Marmaris, Makri, Livisi, Kastelorizo and all the coast up to Attalia (Antalya) before turning west and visited Athens, Thiva, Megara, many islands of Archipelago (Lesvos, Chios, Limnos, Rhodos, Limnos, Imbros, several Cyclades and Sporades), all his tour took more than a year. In Rhodos he remarked several monuments now gone as the arsenal, in Myra he had visited the famous church of Saint Nicolas, in Anamourio he mentioned the churches of St Theodose and St Constantin, still standing then, now gone. The detailed itinerary is a unique source, as Zygomalas was a Greek and representative of the Patriarch, so it is well known that he was very well informed in all his steps. It has been published in the original Greek, with several other manuscripts of Theodose, as a report who Zygomalas wrote to the German Emperor about the harsh attitude of the Turks against the Greek church, a precious catalogue of the then very rich library of the Monastery of Trinity in Halki and more of twenty of his letters to Gerlach and others. Extremely Rare