SAVIERO SCROFANI: VOYAGE EN GRECE…. FAIT EN 1794 ET 1795. PARIS 1801 First French edition, in 8vo,contemporary full leather very slightly rubbed, spines darkened complete in three volumes with all the 15 letterpress plates and the big (43x34cn) folded map of ancient and modern Greece present, text clean and bright, ex libris in front past down of the Manoir de Ronchenville and the famous Petritzi collection, overall in very good condition. Scrofani, an economist and agriculturist in 1794 was sent by the Venetian government in the Ionian islands to access the state of the economy there,he further traveled in the Morea and south Roumeli. The first two volumes deal with topography and archaeology the third is devoted to agriculture and commerce. A very comprehensive account on Greece of the very late 18th century. He wrote extensively on the modern Greeks, often expressing a Philhellenic hope that they would one day rise up and reclaim the glory of their ancestors. Atabey 1115, Blackmer 1517