GUYS Pierre-Augustin, “Voyage Litteraire de la Grece, ou Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes”, Paris, Duchesne, 1783. Complete in four (4) Volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, 527 + 382 + 373 + 240, including ALL TEN (10) PLATES, four (4) of which are folding, most designed by A. Favray & D. Massil. Also including music scores of Greek songs in text. Fine issue of this unusual "literary" travel book to Greece & the Levant by Pierre-Augustin Guys (1720-1799), physican of Lyons and member of the Academy of Sciences and Belles-Lettres of Marseille. Guys spent more than 30 years in the Levant engaged in commercial pursuits. His knowledge of the Orient, and his literary and antiquarian studies led him to undertake a comparison between the ancient and modern Greeks, concluding that the modern Greeks were direct descendants of the ancients. Thus, Guys’ work forms an important stage in the development of French Philhellenism. Contemporary full leather, uniform binding of the first 3 vols, small differences for the 4th vol. Spines with decorations in gilt, marbled edges for the first 3 vols & red edges for the 4th. Rubbed and lightly worn along edges, spine extremities and joints, interior with occasional spotting. Blackmer 169, Atabey 547, Contominas 316.