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L'Helles-Pont

L'Helles-PontPour l'Intelligence du Voyage de Jeune Anacharsis, Dressé sur le Plan qu'en a donné M. D'Anville dans les Mémoires de l'Academie R.le des Beles-Lettres, et sur quelques autres morceaux Par M. Barbié du Bocage, May 1782.

[Paris, c.1788.]
Engraved map. 360 x 230mm, 14¼ x 9".
Map of the Plains of Troy, the entrance to the Dardenelles and the island of Tenedos (Bozcaada), with Troy marked. In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy (1716–95), a highly-esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published 'The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger', an imaginary travel journal regarded as one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called 'the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique'.
[Ref: 23603]  £80.00


 

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