Author

BARTHELMY, Abbe [Jean-Jacques].

Title

Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece.
During the Middle of the Fourth Century before the Christian Era.

Published, Date

M. Mills, Dublin,1795.

Description

Third edition. 5 volumes, 8vo (21.5 x 13 cm). With 31 folding maps and plans. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, flat spines with gilt rules and gilt lettereing, marbled edges.

Note

A fine, very clean set of this highly popular work, here published with an atlas of charming engraved views and maps. 'Voyage du Jeune Anarcharsis en Gr'ece' is Barthélemy's (1716-95) most famous and main work. Begun in 1757, it has taken him thirty years to complete, and was then first published in English in 1787. Modern scholarship has superseded most of the details in the 'Voyage', but the author himself did not imagine his book to be a register of accurately ascertained facts. Rather, he intended to afford to his countrymen, in an interesting form, some knowledge of Greek civilisation.

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Stock Number

73661