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BARTHELEMY (Jean-Jacques, abbot). Voyage of the young Anacharsis in Greece, towards the middle of the fourth century before the vulgar era. Paris, Didot le jeune, year seven [1799]. 7 vols. in-8, and 1 atlas in-4, uniformly bound in speckled fawn basane, smooth spine, red title-pieces, gilt geometrical decoration, gilt framing to the boards, ornamented edges, marbled edges (slight rubbing; rare russeting; the folding map torn at the folds without missing). Fourth edition. The atlas entitled "Recueil de cartes géographiques, plans, vues et médailles de l'ancienne Grèce, relatifs au voyage du jeune Anacharsis; précédé d'une analyse critique des cartes" contains the portrait of the author in frontispiece and 39 copper-engraved plates, double or folding, some maps with watercoloured borders. Without the "general map of Greece" which is always missing in the copies bound at the time, this one having been published only in 1811 (Brunet). With plate 19 bis, not mentioned in the Table of Plates.
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BARTHELEMY (Jean-Jacques, abbot). Voyage of the young Anacharsis in Greece, towards the middle of the fourth century before the vulgar era. Paris, Didot le jeune, year seven [1799]. 7 vols. in-8, and 1 atlas in-4, uniformly bound in speckled fawn basane, smooth spine, red title-pieces, gilt geometrical decoration, gilt framing to the boards, ornamented edges, marbled edges (slight rubbing; rare russeting; the folding map torn at the folds without missing). Fourth edition. The atlas entitled "Recueil de cartes géographiques, plans, vues et médailles de l'ancienne Grèce, relatifs au voyage du jeune Anacharsis; précédé d'une analyse critique des cartes" contains the portrait of the author in frontispiece and 39 copper-engraved plates, double or folding, some maps with watercoloured borders. Without the "general map of Greece" which is always missing in the copies bound at the time, this one having been published only in 1811 (Brunet). With plate 19 bis, not mentioned in the Table of Plates.
