Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece, Tomes Second & Troisieme
Paris: Chez De Bure, 1788. First printing. Hardcover. Volumes 2 & 3. Quarto (10.5 x 8.25 inches), contemporary leather with recent cloth spines, leather a bit rubbed and dry, contents very good, bookplates of Joseph Marryat (1757-1824, English merchant, banker and MP, anti-abolitionist and slave owner). With maps handcolored in outline of La Phocide & La Doride, La Beotie (folding), La Thessalie (folding), La Corinthe, La Sicyonie, La Philiasie et L'Achaie (folding), La Messenie (folding), La Laconie et l'Isle de Cythere (folding) plus two other uncolored maps and at least one other plate in the second volume, and in the third volume maps hand colored in outline of L'Argolide (folding), L'Arcadie, and double-page uncolored view. Anacharsis was a Scythian philosopher: he travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea, to Athens, in the early 6th century BC. Jean-Jacques Barthélémy published his voyage in 1788 after having worked for about thirty years on its preparation. An imaginary historical journey, a veritable sum of 18th century knowledge of ancient Greece, its success contributed to the development of an interest in antiquity in France and Europe and to the spread of the neo-classical style. Good. Item #H19151
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