Recueil de Cartes Geographiques, Plans, Vues et Medailles de L'ancienne Grece, relatifs au voyage du jeune Anacharsis, precede d'une analyse critique des cartes. (Atlas Volume Only)
Paris: Chez de Bure, 1789. Hardcover. Good. Item #49189
Second edition. 4to. pp. xlii, with 27 engraved plates including views, medals, and chiefly maps and plans-most double-page, one folding, some with contemporary outline colouring. Internally clean and bright with minimal foxing. Bound in contemporary mottled full calf, gilt borders, and gilt-stamped devices to spine compartments. Boards rubbed at edges with wear to corners; spine chipped at head and tail; front joint cracked but holding firm. A tight, attractive copy. This is the atlas volume intended to accompany the Travels of Anacharsis, a romanticized historical work imagining the journey of a young Scythian through ancient Greece.
Price (CAD): $700.00