COCHRANE George, "Wanderings in Greece", London, Henry Colburn, 1837. FIRST EDITION. Complete in two (2) Volumes. 8vo, pp. xii, 322 & vii, 382. Complete including two (2) folding maps, a folding plan of Athens, two frontispieces and 5 full-page lithographs. George Cochrane arrived in Greece in January 1827 together with his uncle, admiral Thomas Cochrane, who was in command of two British steamships destined to reinforce the Greek fleet in the War of Independence. The first part of his two-volume account includes descriptions of the social, political and war situation in Greece in the last year of the war, together with Cochranes meetings and conversations with Kolokotronis, Mavrokordatos, Tombazis, Kanaris and Kapodistrias, and his visits to Hydra, Poros, Nafplio, Argos and Athens. The edition is enriched with lithographs based on the authors drawings. The text remains one of the most interesting in its kind, providing a precise picture of the public life of several personalities and offers penetrating insight into Greek society in the first years of the foundation of the Greek State (Travelogues, Ioli Vingopoulou). Contemporary full leather, coat of arms of "THE SOCIETY OF WRITERS TO THE SIGNET" in gilt on boards of both volumes. Worn along Spine & joints. Interior clean, spotless and fine. Blackmer 373, Weber I, 250, Contominas 155.