Lot 08025

[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, 5 folding maps and 4 folding plates, with map of Greece & Asia Minor entitled “Carte de la Grece… 1731” present 3 times in both volumes.

“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.

Not uniform binding. 1st volume: contemporary half velum with external rubbing & wear.2nd volume: contemporary full leather with external wear, partly restored. Overall just few pages foxed, scattered spotting mainly on last sheets of 2nd volume, pp.171 of vol.1 teared on lower edge, otherwise clean & tight inside both volumes, plates in fine condition.

Brunet III 456, Contominas 534, Hoffmann III 51.