ARRIEN DE NICOMEDIE. Histoire des expéditions... Lot n° 2

ARRIEN OF NICOMEDIA Flave [Flavius Arrianus]. History of the expeditions of Alexander; written on the Memoirs of Ptolemy and Aristobulus, his lieutenants. New translation, by P. Chaussard. Paris, Genets, Imprimerie de Charles Pougens, year XI - 1802. 20,5 x 13,5 cm (vol. of text) and 25,5 x 20 cm (atlas), 16-XCV-[1 bl.]-365-[1 bl.] ; [4]-422 ; [4]-2-584 ; [6]-196 p., ff. of pl. 4 volumes bound in the same way, full basane racine, smooth spine richly decorated, with title and tomaison pieces in red and green calf, gilt roulette along the edges, blue speckled edges. A complete copy in three volumes accompanied by an atlas containing two hors-texte tables and XIII folding plates with their explanation (complete). Ex-libris Roger Peyrefitte. Good general condition, some spotting, more pronounced on the binding of the atlas, which also has a split at the upper jaw. Graesse, I, p. 228 - Brunet, I, 498.