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an old book that is sitting on a white surfacean old book with a picture of a man holding a pipe in his handan old map of the greek island of hydraopia, with the islands of the aegean and the aegeanan old map of the battle of marathon on a white backgroundan old book with a drawing of a building on it
Gros & Delettrez

7 - [BARTHELEMY. BARBIE DU BOCAGE (Jean-Denis)].
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[BARTHELEMY. BARBIE DU BOCAGE (Jean-Denis)]. A collection of maps, plans, views and medals of Ancient Greece relating to the travels of the Young Anacharsis. Paris: Didot the Younger, Year VII (1798–1799). Quarto, (4)-110 pp. Contemporary marbled fawn half-basane, smooth spine with decoration, gilt panels in small neoclassical lettering, title and volume number labels in green morocco, marbled edges (slight rubbing to the covers, joints, corners and caps; small losses on the spine; a few foxing spots on the first quires, but the plates are in fine condition; lacks the first general map of Greece, published in 1811). A fine publication by Didot, which is a reprint of the atlas alone from *The Voyage of Anacharsis*. A good copy. Contains, following the *Critical Analysis of the Maps of Ancient Greece*, drawn up for *The Voyage of the Young Anacharsis* by Barbié du Bocage, maps and plans engraved in black with watercolour highlights, beautiful etchings in black, sometimes spread across two pages, and reproductions of engraved medals from ancient Greece. With the engraved frontispiece portrait of Abbé Barthélémy (1716–1795), author of *The Voyage of Anacharsis*, drawn and engraved by Augustin de Saint Aubin, and the 39 plates (including the second plate, number 19, which is not listed in the table of contents). Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region. Brunet, I, 674.
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