Lot 104
  • 104

Greece.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • A collection of 20 volumes, mostly 17th and 18th centuries, including:
  • paper
Guillet, A.G. Athenes ancienne et nouvelle, et l'estat present de l'empire des Turcs... seconde edition. Paris: Michallet, 1675, 2 folding engraved plates, contemporary calf, some browning and spotting, one plate cut close, head and foot of spine slightly chipped
Mably, G.B. de. Observations sur l'histoire de la Grece. Geneva: Compagnie de Libraires, 1766, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, slightly chipped at head and foot
Guys, P.A. Voyage litteraire de la Grèce... nouvelle edition. Paris: Duchesne, 1776, 2 vol., 7 engraved plates, some folding, contemporary calf, somewhat spotted, binding somewhat worn
Wheler, G. Voyage de dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant. Amsterdam: Wolters, 1689, first French edition, 2 vol., engraved additional title, folding map and 80 plates (8 at beginning of vol.1 double-page), 4 printed plates of inscriptions (3 folding), later half calf, apparently lacking one plate of inscriptions, a few leaves in vol.2 (e.g. pp.476, 481 and 485) with slight defects, spines rather worn
8vo and 12mo, [Blackmer 766 (first edition), -, cf. 769, 1787]; and 14 others, including copies of the atlas to Barthélemey's Anacharsis, various sizes

Catalogue Note

The other books in the lot are:

Delaporte, abbé. Le voyageur François, ou la connoissance de l'ancien et du nouveau monde... troisieme édition, 2 vol., Paris, 1769

Voyage et description du temple de Cythere, suivi du rien-de-trop, & du Ranné & de Mascaves, 2 parts in one vol., à Cythere, chez Cupidon, 1752

Mayer, M. de. Lisvart de Grece, roman de chevalerie, 5 vol., Amsterdam, 1788

Mably, abbé de. Entretiens de Phocion, Toulouse and Nismes, 1791

Histoire générale et particuliere de la Grèce... tome XIII (atlas volume, 8vo), Paris, 1783

Chrysostom, J. De non contemnenda dei ecclesia, & mysteriis, Greek text, Paris, 1605 (bound with 6 other works in Greek by Isocrates, Plutarch, Lucian of Samosata, etc., Paris, 1612-1636)

Barthelemy, abbé. Recueil de cartes géographiques, plans, vues et médailles de l'ancienne Grèce, relatifs au voyage du jeune Anacharsis, Paris, an 7 [1799]

Barthelemy, abbé. Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce... atlas, Paris, 1822

And another copy, Paris, 1833