Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, dans le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire.

7 vol., 8vo: xxiv-382, [6]-568, [6]-560, [6]-564, [6]-543, [6]-511, [4]-130-[2]-cccxxii-[1] pp. + Atlas: 40 pl. (some sl. browning, occ. water stains and foxing).

Contemp. blond polished calf by Courteval, gilt triple fillet frame on boards, richly gilt-orn. flat spines, red leather labels (1 joint starting to split, some min. def.). Atlas bound differently: 19th-c. half calf, gilt-orn. spine, red leather labels (spine titled upside down, some def. on boards, one joint split, corners dulled). Nice set.

Third edition (1st 1788) of Barthelemy's masterpiece, often reprinted and translated in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Armenian, Greek. Atlas from the 5th ed., with 40 pl. engr. mainly by Tardieu, a few by Pillement son. Without pl. I (portrait?) but with 2 fold. maps after J.D. Barbié Du Bocage ("Carte générale de la Grèce" numbered "4e édition N° 1, 5e édition pl. 2"; "La Grèce et ses isles" = pl. 2bis) and 38 double-page (num. 3 to 40) figuring maps, plans, views, coins, etc.
Ref. Brunet I:674. - Cp. Contominas (Greek Civilization) 29-sq., Atabey I:67, Blackmer (Sotheby's) 386.
Bound with, at the beginning of vol. I, same imprint: Mancini Nivernois, Louis-Jules-Barbon - Essai sur la vie de J.J. Barthelemy. An III, 1795. 69 pp. Ref. Blackmer (Sotheby's) 386 (bound at the beginning of vol. I, 1788).
Prov. Duvaucel (ms. entries and stamps). - Delaunay, bookseller in Paris (label in vol. I).