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Barthelemy, Jean Jacques. MAPS, PLANS, VIEWS, AND COINS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS THE YOUNGER IN GREECE, DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE FOURTH CENTURY BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA.
London J. Mawman; Rivington; Cadell and Davies, et. al. 1817 Fifth edition Some light foxing, but quite a clean and lovely copy
Quarto. [iv], 106p. Illustrated with 39 engraved plates and maps, some hand-colored, one large folding map (complete). Bound by Bennett in 3/4 dark blue crushed morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, the spine with gilt titles and double gilt rules around the panels with dotted ruled on the bands
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Pausanias (ca. 150-175 A.D.). THE DESCRIPTION OF GREECE, BY PAUSANIAS: TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK. WITH NOTES, IN WHICH MUCH OF THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GREEKS IS UNFOLDED FROM A THEORY WHICH HAS BEEN FOR MANY YEARS UNKNOWN. AND ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND VIEWS ELEGANTLY ENGRAVED
London R. Faulder 1794 First edition in English (translated by Thomas Taylor) About fine. Rarely found with all the plates
Three volumes, xvi, 444p; [iv], 383p; [iv], 323p, [i, errata]. 2 folding maps and 4 fine folding copper-engraved plates. Later binding by F.W. Hawkins & Son, Birmingham in quarter dark green pebbled morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and rules
"Pausanias. Greek geographer and traveler... traveled widely in Greece, Macedonia, Asia, Palestine and Egypt.... Some of what he describes he actually saw himself, some he read in book that may have been as much as 300 years old at the time he wrote, and some of his information he gleaned from talking to the natives of the regions he visited... the material he preserved in his work from the ancient writings and his own observations, and the information he picked up, make his work a rich source of information about religious cults and mythology; it provides the most complete clue existing to the monuments of art and architecture of ancient Greece; it contains historical data that might otherwise have been lost; and its topographical notices are a primary source for scholars and archaeologists. Heinrich Schliemann..., discoverer of the rich Circle Graves of Mycenae, was led to the site from reading Pausanias." (Avery. New Century Classical Handbook, p. 829). Graesse V, p. 178; Hoffman II, p. 51 (printed for Edward Jeffrey).
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