P. BRONDSTED: REISEN UND UNTERSUCHUNGEN IN GRIECHENLAND NEBST DARSTELLUNG UND ERKLARUNG VIELLER NEUENTDECKTEN DENKMALLER.STUTTGART Gotta PARIS Didot. 1826-1830 First edition, published in German in Stuttgart and in French in Paris (the original Danish account published much later). Large FOLIO, contemporary publishers hard covers slightly rubbed at edges, complete in two volumes, an impressive set, [20],129p.,4 maps and 8 plates, [6], [12],130-318p., and 18 lithographed plates, text clean and bright, overall in very good condition. Bronsted (1780-1842) a Danish philologist joined an expedition in Greece with Otto Stackelberg and others, the group finally went on separate ways, Bronsted took part in several excavations in Greece, in Aegina and Kea,he travelled extensively in Greece and returned in Copenhagen in 1813,he returned to the Ionian islands in 1820,he retired later in Copenhagen where he became rector of University to supervise the publication of his extensive travel accounts in Greece, the two volumes of his bulky writings have been published first in French and German. A very important travel exploration in Greece in 1810-1820. This is a luxurious edition in Folio published over 4 years in fascicules, as Bronsted still worked all over this time on his text in German.. Blackmer 214 (this German edition), not in Atabey