Godin, H. Lot n° 560

BARBIÉ du BOCAGE, Jean-Denis Recueil de cartes géographiques, plans, vues et médailles de l'Ancienne Grèce, relatifs au voyage du jeune Anacharsis. Herve Imprimerie du Journal général de l'Europe 1789 4to: xxxiv pp.; 31 (fold.) pl. (large tear in 1st fold. map, text block a bit browned). Contemp. mottled calf, gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands (upper joint part. broken, spine, edges and corners used). Historical atlas with 31 engr. maps by H. Godin, incl. a general map of Greece and its islands, the environs of Athens, Phocis and Dorida, Thessaly, Plato and his disciples at Cape Sounion, the Cyclades etc. Originally intended as a supplement to J.-J. Barthélemy's fictional travel journal of the Scythian sage Anacharsis (4th c. BCE), with, according to the author, Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (1760-1825), maps that are not reduced or copied but that are different from all known maps. Interesting edition, in fact a counterfeit (1st ed.: Paris, 1788) published by the political newspaper press of the Liège "patriots" during the Brabant Revolution. Ref. Zacharakis 112-125. - De Le Court 987. Prov. Libr. stamp deleted.