POUQUEVILLE (François-Charles-Hugues-Laurent). Histoire de l - Lot 47

POUQUEVILLE (François-Charles-Hugues-Laurent). Histoire de la régénération de la Grèce, comprenant le précis des évènements depuis 1740 jusqu'en 1824. Paris, Firmin Didot, père et fils, 1825. 4 vols. in-8, [2] f., 530 p. + [2] f., 594 p. + [2] f., 586 p. + [2] f., 552 p., contemporary eggplant calf, smooth spine, title, frieze, gilt and cold-stamped fillet and decoration, quintuple gilt fillet frame and spandrels, large scroll decoration at center of boards framed by a frieze of cold-stamped water leaves, gilt fillet at edges, speckled edges (spines uniformly sunned, rubbing, small tear to headcap, small damage to headcap, restorations to headcaps, spines, hinges and corners, Second edition. 5 plates drawn from life by Dupré or Voutier engraved by Normand fils, and 6 folding maps drawn from plans and memoirs by Pouqueville or Lapier and engraved by J.D. Barbié du Bocage or Flahaut. Heraldic ex-libris labels Baron de Traversay (= Prévost de Sansac family; Argent, two fesses sable, acc. to six martlets of the same, set 3, 2 and 1); ex-libris R.N, repeated; handwritten ex-libris Paulin de Quetteville dated 1834 (?) on f. lim. T.1. (Droulia, Philhellénisme, 767-70; Quérard, VII, 314). Reuse of portrait plates of Greek patriots published in Voutier's Mémoires sur la guerre actuelle des grecs. Paris, Bossange,1823: see lot 60 in our sale.