A FICTIONAL VOYAGE TO GREECE

(BARTHELEMY, JEAN JACQUES).

Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce vers le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire. 9 vols.

Aux Deux-Ponts, Sanson et Compagnie, 1793.

8vo. Uniformly bound in nine contemporary full mottled calf bindings with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Spines with small paper-label pasted on to upper compartment. Light wear to extremities, boards with a few scratches but generally a very nice a clean copy. (4), 369 pp.; (4), 359 pp.; 351, (1) pp.; (4), 289, (1) pp.; (4), 377, (1) pp.; (4), 373, (1) pp.; (4), 300, (1) pp.; (4), 379, (1) pp.; (4), 324 pp.

Later edition of the fictional voyage the young Anacharsis travels in Greece.

"In the form of a fiction which allowed the author to expose a host of facts and secondary notions that would tire in many treatises, the Voyage de Anacharsis provides an in-depth knowledge of the religious, civil, literary and philosophical history of the most enlightened nation of antiquity. It is a masterpiece of erudition, composition and style." (Larousse)

The novel had a profound influence across Europe and the United States. It was reprinted numerous times and translated into several languages.

Order-nr.: 60815