Petit Radel L.: “Examen Analytique et Tableau Comparatif des synchronismes de l histoire des temps heroiques de la Grece “.Paris 1827 First edition. Large in 4to 26x22cm, contemporary full leather slightly rubbed, complete half title,279p.,one huge (110x26cm) folding table and one folding plate, as called for, ex libris stamp on the back of the title, no other marks, some light scattered foxing, overall very good. Luis-Charles de Petit-Radel (1756-1836),a French archaeologist, escaped during the revolution to the Levant and later became a member of the French Academy of Belles Lettres and an authority in the very early Greek history. He had extensively studied cyclopean sites in southern Europe and published several important accounts in early 19th century regarding discoveries and ancient monuments. This is his most important book and it is the very first scientific attempt to analyze, compare and date, the primitive (heroic) events of ancient Greek history. A fine comprehensive study which has been printed, as all these scientific treatises, in very small print run, modern research revealed that only 200 copies have been printed Not in Atabey, Blackmer or any other known collection. Extremely rare, a cornerstone of early 19th-century Greek historiography and chronology.