Lot 31: Chateaubriand, François René de. , Note sur la Grèce. Paris: Le Normant Père, 1825 , first edition , half-title, original printed wrappers with an overslip giving a Bordeaux imprint, uncut

Ibid. Note sur la Grèce... deuxième edition. Brussels: Ch. Versé and Lejeune, 1825 , half-title, original printed wrappers [Libri-Bagnano, Georges, comte ] Réponse d'un Turc à la Note sur la Grèce de... Chateaubriand. Brussels: Librairie de Baudouin, August, 1825, one of 100 copies, half-title, original printed wrappers, uncut Société philanthropique et des dons volontaires, en faveur des grecs. Ire [2me] liste des membres composant la société philanthropique et des dons volontaires, en faveur des grecs. [Paris, 1826], 2 pamplets, 4to, sewn, folded Together 5 items, 8vo except where stated, all housed together in a modern book-style case

cf. Blackmer 329, a later edition of the Note; Droulia 829, 830, 850, the last 2 pamphlets not found in Droulia but cf. 1167-68

PARIS: LE NORMANT PÈRE, 1825
An unusual collection of material relating to Chateaubriand's philhellenism during the Greek revolution. His Note sur la Grèce announces the formation of, and requests funds for, the Société en faveur des grecs. His name is prominent in the two membership lists included in the lot.