YEMENIZ (Eugène). Voyage dans le royaume de Grèce. Preceded - Lot 63

YEMENIZ (Eugène). Voyage dans le royaume de Grèce. Preceded by : LAPRADE (Victor de). Considerations on the genius of Greece. Paris, Dentu, 1854. In-8, [2] f., XLIV p., [2] f., 392 p., paperback (spine split, cover incomplete). First edition of this collection of undated excursions to most of the historical regions of Greece: the region of Athens, Nafplio, Tirynthe, Mantinea, Sparta, Argos, Larissa, Mycenae, Corinth, Megara, Eleusis, Thebes, Delphi, Thermopylae, Patras, Missolonghi, etc. The author was French consul in Paris. The author was French consul in Athens. Travel report published the same year Piraeus was invaded by Franco-British forces. (Weber, Gennadius Library, 503). "The author believes he must warn his readers that the report of this Voyage was written and in press before the unfortunate attitude taken by the Greek government in Eastern affairs. We should not therefore be surprised to find in the course of the work appreciations which the course of events would undoubtedly have modified".