COCHRANE George, "Wanderings in Greece", London, Henry Colburn, 1837. FIRST EDITION. Complete in two (2) Volumes. 8vo, pp. xii, 322 & vii, 382. COMPLETE including two (2) folding maps, a folding plan of Athens, two frontispieces and 5 full-page lithographs.

George Cochrane arrived in Greece in January 1827 together with his uncle, admiral Thomas Cochrane, who was in command of two British steamships destined to reinforce the Greek fleet in the War of Independence. The first part of his two-volume account includes descriptions of the social, political and war situation in Greece in the last year of the war, together with Cochranes meetings and conversations with Kolokotronis, Mavrokordatos, Tombazis, Kanaris and Kapodistrias, and his visits to Hydra, Poros, Nafplio, Argos and Athens.

The edition is enriched with lithographs based on the author’s drawings. The text remains one of the most interesting in its kind, providing a precise picture of the public life of several personalities and offers penetrating insight into Greek society in the first years of the foundation of the Greek State (Travelogues, Ioli Vingopoulou).

Contemporary full cloth, blind-stampedcovers. cExtensive rubbing with splits on spine & joints, bumped corners, sunned the spines. Spotting mainly of the first and last leaves. Tear on the folding map of Greece and a very short one on folding plan of Athens.

Blackmer 373, Weber I, 250, Contominas 155.