BARTHOLDY Jakob Ludwig Salomon, “Voyage en Grèce, fait dans les années 1803 et 1804, traduit de l’ allemand par A. du C[oudray]”, Paris, Dentu, 1807. Volume I (of II). 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 272. Including a folding map of Greece, designed by Lapie & engr. by Tardieu with title “Carte de la Grece et de L’ Archipel… 1807” and four (4) full-page engravings of which 2 hand-coloured. FIRST FRENCH EDITION. The Prussian diplomat Bartholdy was the first important German to travel in Greece after Riedesel. He visited Greece along with the painter & engraver Christian Gropius, whose designs are embedded in this work. The work was considered as a breakthrough to the early travel literature of Greece. With its criticism of the Greeks, this much-discussed work caused a reorientation in the way Europeans perceived Greek culture and civilization. Gropius settled in Greece as the consul of Austria, and he was active in many political, social and archaeological activities (some also controversial) of the Athenian society for nearly 50 years. Contemporary leather spine with title and dec. in gilt, thick paper marbled boards with external edge-wear & rubbing. Blackmer 87, Atabey 68, Weber I 12, Contominas 39.