BARTHELEMY, Jean-Jacques. Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèc - Lot 123

BARTHELEMY, Jean-Jacques. Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce vers le milieu du Quatrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire. The most complete edition of Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce in a homogeneous neo-classical binding. Paris, Imprimerie Didot Jeune, year VII [1799]. 7 small folio volumes, purple half-calf with corners, spines with four false nerves highlighted with gilt roulette, gilt frieze on headpieces, blue moiré boards, blue speckled edges. CXXII - 352 pp. ; VIII - 494 pp. ; 1 f.n.ch. - 499 pp. ; VIII - 483 pp. ; 1 f.n.ch. - 471 pp. ; 1 f.n.c. - 469 pp. and VIII - 422 pp. with a burin portrait-frontispiece in the first volume. Spine sunned, wear rubbed, upper edges faded, scattered foxing sometimes more present in margins. A success since its original publication in 1788, this fictional journey through ancient Greece features the philosopher Anacharsis visiting the various places, institutions and personalities of the Greek world. A large part of the seventh and final volume is devoted to indicative tables of historical notions or useful information for the reader. Normally accompanied by a large folio atlas, not included here. "Beautiful edition, more complete than the first three" (Brunet, I, 674).