‎(BARTHELEMY, JEAN JACQUES).‎
‎Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce vers le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l'ère vulgaire. 9 vols. - [A FICTIONAL VOYAGE TO GREECE]‎

‎Aux Deux-Ponts, Sanson et Compagnie, 1793. 8vo. Uniformly bound in nine contemporary full mottled calf bindings with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Spines with small paper-label pasted on to upper compartment. Light wear to extremities, boards with a few scratches but generally a very nice a clean copy. (4), 369 pp. (4), 359 pp. 351, (1) pp. (4), 289, (1) pp. (4), 377, (1) pp. (4), 373, (1) pp. (4), 300, (1) pp. (4), 379, (1) pp." (4), 324 pp.‎

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‎Later edition of the fictional voyage the young Anacharsis travels in Greece. ""In the form of a fiction which allowed the author to expose a host of facts and secondary notions that would tire in many treatises, the Voyage de Anacharsis provides an in-depth knowledge of the religious, civil, literary and philosophical history of the most enlightened nation of antiquity. It is a masterpiece of erudition, composition and style."" (Larousse) The novel had a profound influence across Europe and the United States. It was reprinted numerous times and translated into several languages. (Brunet I, 674 - not listing the present edition).‎