[ΠΑΥΣΑΝΙΑΣ] "Pausanias, ou Voyage historique de la Grece, traduit en françois, avec des remarques, par M. l’Abbe Gedoyn...”, Paris, Chez Nyon, 1731. Complete in 2 volumes. 4to, pp.xxiv,478,[4] + vi,523,[1]. Title in red & black, COMPLETE including Frontispiece, 3 folding maps and 4 folding plates. “Apparently the first edition in French of Pausanias’s travels in Greece” (Contominas pp.308). The travel account of Greece by Pausanias (110-180 A.C.) is one of the first comprehensive travel accounts in human history and the first travel guide. Describes with impressive detail Peloponnesus and some other part of Greece. A basic source for Roman Greece and the main basis for any archaeological monuments identification today, as the classical Greece was still mostly intact at his time. Contemporary binding: full leather, spine with raised bands, decorations and title in gilt. Ex libris label on pastedown of both vols. External wear along extremities and corners, joints worn and partly cracked but still firm. Spotting throughout, occasional signs of water-stains, contemporary handwritten notes along the margins throughout, plates in fine condition. Brunet III 456, Contominas 534, Hoffmann III 51.