Heuzey Leon : “Mission archeologique en Macedoine “.Paris 1862

First and only edition, in 4to 24x16cm,modern paperboards, complete, very light scattered spotting in just few pages, overall clean and bright, very good condition.

Leon Heuzey, a member of the French School of Archaeology of Athens and pioneer of excavations of Greek antiquities undertook numerous excavations and travels in central and northern Greece during the years 1855-1860.His extensive accounts mostly remained unpublished. This publication covers a travel in Macedonia, almost completely unexplored then. He had focused at the area of Filipi in eastern Macedonia where ruins where still visible around. On the way he spent two months in Thessaly for topographical studies and had the opportunity to take several manuscripts from monasteries in the Meteora. It was a first, fact finding, mission in Macedonia during several months, mostly to locate the main sites for future excavations (Filipi, Pidna, Amphipolis).He returned later in 1876 and conducted the first excavations in Macedonia. Not in Atabey,Blackmer or any other known collection. Extremely rare