JUAN DE MONCADA: Expedicion de los Catalanos y Aragoneses contra Turcos y Griegos. Madrid 1777 Second edition of this famous 14th-century Catalan travel account of Greece and the Levant. In 8vo (18 × 12 cm). Contemporary full Spanish leather, spine richly gilt, with only very light wear to covers. Red edges. Text clean and bright. Complete: 383 pp. A very good plus copy. Montaner’s 14th-century manuscript travel account, compiled later by Moncada, is a primordial source for events in Greece and Asia Minor in the early 14th century, providing topographical, economic, ethnological, and historical information at first hand. The Catalan Company, a mercenary army of Spaniards, had been hired by the Byzantines to fight the Turks in Asia Minor. After initial successes, they demanded payment; when the Byzantines proved unable and executed their leaders, the mercenaries rebelled. They pillaged Thrace and Macedonia, and after six years of wandering across Greece, they defeated the French knights at the battle of Orchomenos (1311). From there the Catalans established their realm in Athens, which lasted into the late 14th century. This account records in meticulous detail their campaigns and movements throughout Greece in those years, making it a unique and invaluable primary source, here preserved in a very rare edition.