[Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce. Atlas volume only].

4to: 29 (of 31) folding pl., occ. borders hand-coloured (foldings worn, missing: pl. 24 showing Plato and his disciples at Cape Sounion; pl. 27 with medals).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-decorated covers and spine (sl. used).

Historical atlas by J.-D. Barbié du Bocage with 29 maps engraved by G.N. Delahaye, Delahaye fils, Delettre and Sellier, incl. a general map of Greece and its islands, the environs of Athens, Phocis and Dorida, Thessaly, the Cyclades, etc. Originally intended as a supplement to J.-J. Barthélemy's fictional travel journal of the Scythian sage Anacharsis (4th c. BCE) with, according to the author, maps that are not reduced or copied but that are different from all known maps.
Ref. Zacharakis 112-125. - De Le Court 987.
Prov. Libr. label.