Von Arnim: Flüchtige Bemerkungen eines flüchtigen Reisenden,1.Reise von Neapel durch Apulien und die Ionischen Inseln nach Athen,2.Ausenthalt im Athen,Reise uber Syra und Smyrna nach Konstantinopel,3.Ausenthalt im Konstantinopel Reise uber das Schwartze Meer nach der Moldau….Berlin 1838 First edition of the two later travels,second of the first, separate pagination of the accounts, in small 8vo, contemporary boards, spine sunned, engraved colored frontis complete, text mostly clean, some foxing and spotting in few pages, overall in very good condition Arnim, was a Prussian diplomat and officer. Although the title suggests a humble or fleeting perspective, the content is deeply analytical and provides three detailed travel accounts, a bridge between the Romantic era of travel and the era of Realpolitik. Von Arnim provides a first-hand look at how the Bavarian administration was attempting to impose German-style bureaucracy on a Greek population that had just spent centuries under Ottoman rule. He is often critical of the cultural disconnect. He compares the British administration of the Ionian Islands to the chaotic state of the Peloponnese. Writing later from the heart of European Turkey, the Balkans, he observes the crumbling of the old Ottoman structures. His fleeting remarks often capture the exact moment when traditional Eastern customs were being forcibly modernized by Sultan Mahmud II.A fine Prussian account on the newly born Greece state