BARTHELEMY, Jean-Jacques. Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèc - Lot 124

BARTHELEMY, Jean-Jacques. Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce. Le Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce complete with atlas and in a uniform period binding. Paris, Etienne Ledoux, 1822. 7 vol. in-12 and one atlas in-4 oblong. beige basane, spine with four false nerves highlighted with a gilt geometric frieze, caissons stamped with an embossed fleuron. 2 ff.n.ch. - CXIX - 356 pp. ; 508 pp. - 1 f.v.n.c. ; 484 pp. - 1 f.bl.n.c. ; 482 pp. - 1 f.bl.b.c.; 490 pp. - 1 f.bl.n.c.; 436 pp. - 2 f.n.ch. 464 pp. - 1 f.bl.n.ch., 7 frontispieces including a portrait-frontispiece of the author and 39 plates for the atlas. Spine slightly sunned, rubbed in use, headbands worn or loose, jaws tired with a few short cracks, rubbed edges, foxing, a few browned leaves. Fine edition of this scholarly and fictional voyage to Ancient Greece, limited edition of 1,000 copies on Annonay fine paper, complete with atlas. It contains six frontispieces after Alexandre Marie Colin (1798-1814), a pupil of Girodet. The atlas contains 29 copper plates, mainly maps of Greece, with color enhancement. This unusual set is complete in its uniform period binding. Sources : - Brunet, I, 675.