Author: Barthélemy, Jean Jacques.
Title: Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece, dans le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire.
Description: Zweibrücken [Deux-Ponts], Sanson et Compagnie, 1791. 9 text-volumes & 1 atlas-volume. 30 copper-engraved (mostly folded) maps, plans, views and plates. Contemp. uniform gilt-tooled half leather bindings [text-volumes; 8vo.] and contemp. boards [Atlas; 4to.]. - Spine-ends and corners sl. worn, 19th century owner's entry in ink on title-page; overall a attractive set.* Imaginary travel-diary of the young scythian philosopher Anacharsis by classical scholar and jesuit Jean Jacques Barthélemy. It was an instant success and many reprints, imitations and adaptations of this historical novel where published afterwards up untill the 19th century.

Keywords: Ethnography Europe Greece Philosophy Etnografie Europa Griekenland Filosofie ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / III