Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy. In Nine Volumes, complete, 1791.

A celebrated work of the French Enlightenment, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was first published in 1788 and quickly became one of the most widely read and influential historical works of its age. Presented as the fictional travels of a young Scythian through fourth-century BC Greece, the work combines narrative, scholarship and antiquarian detail, offering a richly textured reconstruction of ancient Greek life, customs and institutions. It stands as a landmark of eighteenth-century historical imagination, bridging literature and classical scholarship, and remained a standard reference on Greek antiquity well into the nineteenth century.

This 1791 Deux-Ponts edition, issued in nine volumes, represents an early and desirable printing of the work. The press at Deux-Ponts (Zweibrücken) was an important Enlightenment centre, known for producing well-printed editions of major contemporary texts. The present set is complete and attractively bound in mottled tree calf, adding further appeal as a decorative and scholarly set.

Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, dans le milieu du quatrième siècle avant l’ère vulgaire. By Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (not credited). In Nine Volumes, complete.

Published "Chez Sanson et Compagnie, Aux Deux-Ponts", 1791. Deux-Ponts is the French name for Zweibrücken.

A very good, handsome set of 9 hardback volumes, bound in attractive marbled calf leather. With tooled gilt spines and burgundy and black morocco title and volume number labels. Covers with some rubbing and wear, and rubbing to joints, but a smart, soundly bound set. Edges of boards with gilt decoration, with some rubbing.

Provenance: From the library at Rossie Priory, the Perthshire seat of the Kinnaird family, Lords Kinnaird, a long-established Scottish family active in parliamentary, civic, and reforming circles during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Each volume bears the Kinnaird bookplate to the front pastedown.

The text is very good - bright and clean throughout.

Text in French.