Lot 08188

SAVARY Claude Etienne, “Lettres sur la Grece: faisant suite de celles sur lEgypte”, Paris, Onfroi, 1788. 8vo, pp.[3],362,[2]. First edition, complete with a folding map of Crete and the southern Aegean and a folding plate of the Labyrinth. A collection of letters describing the actual conditions in the Greek islands at the end of the 19th century. Rich in first hand information life & social structure of the Greek communities in Ottoman Empire. Contemp. ½-morocco binding with hard covers, gilt back and coloured edges. Blackmer 1493, Zacharakis 3256.