Barbié du bocage - Recueil de cartes géographiques, Plans, Vues et Médailles de l'Ancienne Grèce - 1807

Fascinating illustrated edition of this monumental work that showcases the erudite ambition of the early 19th century to visually reconstruct the universe of ancient Greece through a collection of maps, plans, views, and reproductions of medals.

Barbié du Bocage, a recognized geographer and cartographer, deploys a learned method that combines topographical precision, fidelity to ancient sources, and the aesthetic of engraving, offering readers an erudite atlas as much as a work of art.

Geographical maps locate the cities, regions, and routes of Antiquity, while detailed plans depict monuments and archaeological sites. Views restore landscapes and ruins, and the reproduced medals testify to Greek iconography and political memory.

It is part of the 19th-century philhellene and antiquarian movement, where ancient Greece was rediscovered and exalted as an aesthetic and political model.

Barbié du bocage - Collection of geographical maps, plans, views, and medals of Ancient Greece - 1807 - Bossange, Masson, and Besson
32 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, book in its original brown half-leather with small corner tips from the period, marbled boards, scuffs and some minor signs of use, missing lower headcap, rounded corners, smooth decorated spine, with gilded titling.

Good interior condition, some foxing, work enriched with numerous engravings outside the text including geographical maps on fold-out plates.

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