The History of Modern Greece from its conquest by the Romans B.C. 146 to the present time Two Volumes 1845
Tennent, Sir James Emerson
$325.00
Place Published: London
Date Published: 1845
Size: 2 vols 8vo
1845 Edition in two volumes of Tennent’s History of Modern Greece (first published 1830) from the Roman conquest to the C-19th; including a Sketch of the Greek Revolution; Tennant was an English politician born in Ireland, who took up the cause of Greek independence, travelling widely in the area in the 1820’s; three-quarter period calf, raised bands with 6 compartments, maroon and black title labels and gilt devices, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt; both volumes with recent archival repair to joints of boards and edges of endpapers; volume I with prominent damp stain around edges of prelims (and edges of some pages in text), scattered foxing, dampstain to leather top and lower edges, o.w. Good; vol 2 with scattered foxing, o.w. G-VG