[Rarebooks] FS:MAPS, PLANS, VIEWS AND COINS,...
Deborah Thornton Pendleton
dtpendle at ceinetworks.com
Tue Jan 16 11:30:08 EST 2007
For Your Consideration.
MAPS, PLANS VIEWS AND COINS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS
THE YOUNGER IN GREECE, DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE FOURTH CENTURY BEFORE
THE CHRISTIAN ERA. Map volume only. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J.
Robinson, 1791. Quarto in old marbled boards backed in leather. Covers
worn, lacking title label on spine and covers detached. Endpapers loose
with chipped edges. Old name on top margin of title page and 1/4" x 2"
of top margin cut away (former owner's name?). Includes folding map of
Greece and the Grecian Islands, dated August 1788, with 2" closed tear
along fold; double-page maps including Thermopylae dated November 1784,
Battle of Salamis dated March 1785...some maps with hand-colored
borders...31 plates in all including Plato's Discourse, building views
and plans, and a plate of coins. Paper toned and most images with offset
as usual, a nice copy in need of rebinding. $325
D. T. Pendleton Fine & Antiquarian Books
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