204 - [PAUSANIAS] and CLAVIER, Etienne. Pausanias’s Description of Greece. New translation with the Greek text collated from the manuscripts...

[PAUSANIAS] and CLAVIER, Etienne. Pausanias’s Description of Greece. New translation with the Greek text collated from the manuscripts... Paris, J.-M. Eberhart, A. Bobée, 1814–1823 In-8 (21.5 x 14 cm), cardboard binding, Bradel style, plain spine with decoration. 6 vols.: XV-599 pp. - 497 pp. - VII-429 pp. - 585-VI pp. - 551-XXIII pp. - 258 and 246 pages (Volume 6, published in 1821, includes the supplement containing Clavier’s notes, which was published in 1823) The second joint of volume 1 is split; the cap ends are scuffed. Critical edition of Pausanias’s *Description of Greece*. Greek text with the French translation in parallel columns; the translation is the work of Étienne Clavier, a Hellenist and professor of history and ethics at the Collège de France. He died in 1817, when only the first two volumes had been published. His friend Adamance Coray then undertook the task of revising the Greek text and added notes, which are found in Volume 6. A fine copy in uniform period binding, complete in 6 volumes. Starting with Volume 3, the publisher changed; the edition was continued by A. Bobée, printer for the Royal Academic Society of Sciences, located at 9 Rue de la Tabletterie.