CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER. A PICTURESQUE JOURNEY THROUGH GREECE. Paris, unnamed, 1782-1809-1822. 3 parts in 2 volumes in folio, porphyry calf, gilt framed lace on boards, very ornate ribbed spine, red edges (period binding). ORIGINAL EDITION of one of the most beautiful works on Greece, and "in terms of engraving, the most admirable production of this genre" (Brunet). The work is decorated with a portrait of the author engraved by Dien after Boilly, two folded maps of ancient and modern Greece, a double-page table and nearly 300 subjects printed on 168 hors-texte plates, some of them double-page, and numerous pictorial bands, culs-de-lampe and title vignettes. All these plates, engraved with great finesse after drawings by Choiseul-Gouffier, Hilair and Moreau, include numerous views, maps and plans, and show mostly events of the period, picturesque scenes, Greeks and Turks in costume, craftsmen and dignitaries.... Copy of the first edition (of 3) with the introductory speech of volume 1 which ends in the fourth line of page 16 with the words Exoriare aliquis. Several small light brown spots. (Cohen, 238, 239) (Brunet I, 1847). A FINE COPY, ELEGANTLY BOUND IN THE PERIOD.