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JACO FALLMERAYER.:GESCHICHTE DER HALBINSEL MOREA WAHREND DES MITTELALTERS.STUTTGART 1830-1836.
First edition of the most famous of Falmerayer s works. In 8vo, contemporary leather over boards with very light wear at corners, a very nice binding, complete in two volumes:432p.,455p., text clean and bright, e libris of the library of Chateau d Oberrhofen, overall an almost fine copy with provenance
First publication of Fallmerayer s famous scientific study which tried to established that the actual modern Greek people is a derivative of Slavs and Albanians without practically any connection with the ancient Greeks and finally asked, rhetorically, if there is any drop of Ancient Greek blood in the inhabitants of modern Greece. A publication with enormous consequences, as it questioned the very existence of the modern Greek state in a very early date,just after its independence .Fallmerayer was an established and well known scholar, his ideas had serious impacts in its contemporary historians. Paparigopoulos took decades to demonstrate the continuous existence of the Greeks in the same land. Rare