Recueil de Cartes Geographiques Plans Vues et Medailles de L'Ancienne Grece

Paris: De Bure et al, 1788. Paperback. Good Only. 10.5" by 8.5". Jean Denis Barbie du Bocage. An uncommon first edition of the Atlas collection to accompany Barthelmey's 1788 retelling of Anacharsis. Comprising 31 plates total. Collated, complete. The plates to this volume all depict ancient Greece. With the text in French. With the list of plates and introductory analysis of the maps designed by cartographer Jean Denis Barbie du Bocage.  Bocage designed many of the maps to this volume. He was a celebrated cartographer who trained in the workshops of expert mapmaker J.B.B. d'Anville. 'Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece' was first published in 1788. It was an imaginary travel journal and is noted as one of the first historical novels. This is the first edition of the plates. In contemporary boards. The front board is detached but present. Externally, worn. Internally, firmly bound. Lacking a portion of front free endpaper at the gutter. Worming to the gutter throughout, heaviest to the introductory text leaves and therefore only forming the occasional small hole to the plates. Light tidemarks to the outer margins of most plates. Only affecting the blank margins. The penultimate plate, labelled 'Chap. LXXVI' has a small chip to the outer margin, not affecting the map. Pages remain bright. Good Only