Beschreibung:

Leconte C., “Etude economique de la Grece, suivie de documents sur le commerce d’Orient, Paris”, FirminDidot, 1847. First and only edition. Large 8vo 23x14cm, uncut, complete 452p., publisher’s paper covers soiled, spine opened, inside clean and fine, overall very good. A unique book for its time. Leconte was a French public servant and early economist who travelled in Greece, to contribute in the economic regeneration of the country. His lengthy reports have been published by FirminDidot, a well known philhellene, with his own expenses, as a contribution to a Greek development. The print run was obviously very limited. It provides invaluable information for the economic and general situation of Greece in the early 1840s. A very detailed description of the organization of the country in all levels, focused in the trade and economics, including the revenues, the country debt, the financial administration from 1833 to 1845, the creation of the National Bank and the economic perspectives of the country. The last part includes other official French reports on trade with Greece, Turkey and other countries of the Levant, a report of the Navarino battle by Rouen, an eyewitness, and specific reports on tariffs of Greece, on the political parties, of the Greek army and their pay roll, on Greek deposits of natural resources, including marble, lignite, lead etc. It includes folded plates with very early commercial data on trade of Syra, Constantinople, Smyrna and Trebizond. Not in Atabey, Blackmer or any other known collection. Extremely rare.