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GUYS, PIERRE-AUGUSTIN. Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce,ou, Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes, avec un Parallèle de leurs Moeurs. 10 engraved plates. Half-titles. 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, joints cracked or starting; scattered insignificant stains not affecting plates, contents otherwise generally clean; marbled edges. Paris: widow Duchesne, 1783
Third edition of a work originally published in 1771 "Guys had spent more than 30 years in the Levant engaged in commercial pursuits . . . His literary and antiquarian studies led him to the conclusion that the modern Greeks were direct descendants of the ancients, and his book is full of comparisons between the ancient and modern Greeks on every conceivable subject"--Blackmer 769. Cohen-de Ricci 469.
