ALEXIS DE VALON: UNE ANNEE DANS LE LEVANT, LA SICILE SOUS FERDINARD IIET LA GRECE SOUS OTHON I-TURQUIE. PARIS 1846 First edition, in 8vo, contemporary leather over boards slightly rubbed, complete two volumes in one,347p., 270p., some light scattered spotting in few pages,generally text clean and bright, overall in very good condition. De Valon visited Greece in the early 1840s, he provides some of the best descriptions of the Bavarian-Greek Court, he paints a picture where German etiquette and discipline clashed with Greek revolutionary ferocity, he remarked the high tensions between the Greek veterans of the war and the Bavarian bureaucrats, his account on brigandage in Greece is famous. He found very dangerous to travel out of Athens, where the line between hero of Revolution and bandit was not clear. In the second volume describes Patmos, Rhodes, Smyrna and Constantinople. Atabey 1268, Blackmer 1710