Beschreibung:

Objektsbeskrivning ANCIENT GREECE. (5). (BARTHÉLÉMY, JEAN-JACQUES). Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece, dans le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire. I-IV+ Atlas. Paris (chez de Bure) 1788. 4to (about 270x210 mm.). 31 double-page engraved maps, plans, and plates, one folding, 11 hand-coloured in outline (all, plate III close cut in outer margins with minor loss of text, minor spotting). Later (19th century) marbled boards, somewhat worn, new inner doublures and endpapers, blank spines, red shaved upper edges, otherwise uncut. First edition. 5 volumes. Collation: I. (5), vi-vii, (1 blank), (10, last blank), (1)-553, (1 blank), (2, errata, verso blank), some light foxing at end, from p. 545 to the end larger spot in upper outer corner; II. (8), (1)-646, (2, errata, verso blank), some occasional stains; III. (6), (1)-599, (1 blank), (2, errata, verso blank), pp. 523-526 larger brownspot in upper outer margin; IV. (6), (1)-383, (1 blank), (i)-clxxxiv, (2, errata, verso blank), some foxing, some minor stains. Atlas volume: (5), vi-xlii pp, 31 engraved double-page maps, plans and plates, minor marginal foxing. This book, begun in 1756, not finished until 1788, is a description of ancient Greece, Hellenic civilization, institutions, arts, history, philosophy, and literature during classical times. Provenance: From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).