Lot 08125

CREUZER Georg Friedrich, “Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen”, W. Leske, 1837-1842. COMPLETE in four (4) Volumes. Richly illustrated with a folding map and 85 plates of which many folding, some printed in colour and some hand-coloured.  

8vo, pp. xvi, 575, [3], 10 plates and a folding map + 697, [3], 23 plates + 850, 29 plates + 900, 23 plates. Georg Friedrich Creuzer (10 March 1771 – 6 February 1858) was a German philologist and archaeologist. Creuzer’s first and most famous work was that about symbolism and mythology of the ancient peoples, especially the Greek, in which he argued that the mythology of Homer and Hesiodus were derived from an eastern source, the Pelasgians, , and reflected the symbolism of an ancient revelation.

Volume 1 with contemporary leather spine – worn along edges and joints. The rest of the volumes rebacked, red edges, marbled boards. Spotting throughout.