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LECHEVALIER (Jean Baptiste). Voyage de la Troade, fait dans les années 1785 et 1786. Third revised and considerably enlarged edition. Paris, Dentu, An X-1802. 3 volumes in-8 and 1 Atlas in-4, full contemporary seeded calf, smooth spine decorated, double gilt frieze framing the boards. Text: XVIII, 303 pp; (2) ff, 332 pp; (2) ff, 315 pp. Atlas: 14pp. and XXVII plates. Small paper gap with loss of text on page XVII of the first volume.
37 maps, plans, views and subjects of archaeology and numismatics engraved by Tardieu, Adam, Berlin, Collin, etc., printed on 29 plates, some folding or double-page, preceded by explanatory notes.
Third edition, revised and considerably enlarged, of the voyage of Jean-Baptiste Lechevalier (1752-1836), a pupil of Barthélemy, who visited Asia Minor in 1785 and 1786. His meticulous study of the Troad region, in search of Homeric sites, had a considerable influence on the scholarly debates surrounding the location of Troy.
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