Δαπόντες Κωνσταντίνος (Dapontes Constantin): “Ephemerides Daces ou Chronique de la guerre de quatres ans 1736-39 .” Paris 1880 First edition. Tall in 4to 28x18cm. Three volumes, contemporary leather over boards, text clean and bright, complete: volume one 442p. Greek original text, volume two [64] 449p. French translation, volume three 176p. letters of Dapontes, index and notices. Fine condition. Κωνσταντίνος Δαπόντες (Konstantinos Dapontes 1713-1784) was a Greek Fanariote, one of the leading Greek historians of 18th century. He stayed in Constantinople and in the courts of Phanariotes Princes in Moldavia, he was the secretary of Prince Mavrocordato for several years. He later became a monk in Athos. The Ephemerides Daces (Δακικαί Εφημερίδες), a very lengthy account written in Greek, is a detailed description of several events in Constantinople and in the Ottoman Levant in the 1730s mainly dealing with the Ottoman Russian war of 1736-39 and its impact in the Christian population of the Balkans but not only. As Dapontes was an eyewitness of all the events which he describes and additionally had first hand information from all the major Ottoman and Fanariote officials, his account is a unique source for Constantinople and the 18th century Ottoman Levant, its society, the administration, the position of the Greeks and their contemporary view of the Ottoman Levant, an aspect, about which, very few original information exist. The last volume is independent and provides the other letters of Dapontes and his bibliographical notice. RARE