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Frontispiece engraved portrait. Volume 1 opens with a biographical note on the author followed by a long introduction to the trip to Greece including pages 29 to 300. In volume 8 the 15 chronological tables, courts and magistrates of Athens, illustrious men etc.
Pretty romantic binding in glazed tawny calfskin, smooth spine adorned with a decoration of small gilt irons in the center of Gothic motifs.
CONDITION: Leather a little faded, some traces, 3 caps with small gaps, first split bits of the flights. 1,2 and 4. Interiors in good condition, slight yellowing, some rare foxing. In volume 7 slight wetting on the last pages (230 to 302).
"Le Voyage d'Anacharsis ( EO 1788 ) acquaints us thoroughly with the religious, civil, literary and philosophical history of the most enlightened nation of antiquity. It is a masterpiece of scholarship, of composition and style." (Larousse from the 19th century).
AUTHOR: Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
TITLE: Voyage of young Anacharsis in Greece.
PUBLISHER: Au Bureau des Editeurs, Paris and 1830 (Library of Friends of Letters collection, or Choice of the best French authors)
Opposite the title pages "Paris, Grimprelle, bookseller, rue Poissonnière, n° 21" "Nantes, Suireau Couffinhal, bookseller, Place Royale", Sens chez Malvin. 1830
Colophon: "Printing Marchand du Breuil, No. 80"
8 volumes in 4 vol of approx 300 pp each
Subject: Barthélemy Voyage of young Anacharsis to Greece 1830 religious, civil, literary and philosophical history 67448471