GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGES. Letters Written in Response to an - Lot 80

GUILLET DE SAINT-GEORGES. Letters Written in Response to an Essay on a Journey to Greece, published by Mr. Spon, physician and antiquarian. With Remarks on Medals, Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern History, Geography, Chronology... Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1679. 12mo, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, coat of arms in the center, decorated spine, inner roulette, gilt edges (contemporary binding). First edition, featuring a copperplate engraving comprising two maps of the straits of the Bosporus, Thrace, and the Hellespont. A polemical work directed against the famous antiquarian Jacob Spon, who had severely criticized the author and his book *Athènes ancienne et nouvelle* (1675). Copy bearing the coat of arms of Minister Colbert, with the handwritten ex-libris “Bibliothecae Colbertinae” on the title page, as used by librarian Étienne Baluze. From the libraries of G. J. Arvanitidi Byzantini and Hans Furstenberg. Page V1 is scorched; a few pages have wormholes. Small tear at the tail end.

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