POUQUEVILLE:HISTOIRE DE LA REGENERATION DE LA GRECE COMPRENANT LE PRECIS DES EVENEMENTS DEPUIS 1740 JUSQUE EN 1824. PARIS 1824 FIRST EDITION, in large 8vo, contemporary fine leather over boards, Boards slightly trimmed, complete in four volumes:486p.,611p., 578p.,557p., 4 folding maps and 6 full page figures of the Revolution and plans, text clean and bright, some stain in title page of first volume,with very occasionally few very light water stain in upper margin of the last volumes, overall in very good condition, a nice set. According Atabey, probably the most influential of Pouqueville several books on Greece. Very Philhellenic in tone, it provides an analytical and very detailed report (of more than 2.000 pages..) of all the events from 1740 that led to the Greek Revolution and describe its achievements up to 1824. The classical account that spread the news for the Revolution across Europe. Very critical to the British attitude, it has been translated in several languages but never in English. The included figures,heroes of the Greek Revolution,were via this publication well know to the European public.