Shipping world wide by registered mail only , BUT NO SHIPPING TO THE USA, RUSSIA UKRAINE ! [the local postal services don't accept mail to these countries !!!!] 1788 ca. printed in Paris , Atlas to illustrate the fictional travels of Anacharsis - a Scythe from the Black Sea, to and in Greece in 350 BC around. It was a bestseller , printed for around 100 years, and translated into approx. 10 languages. Here we have a sample with the first and original plates . It had a great influence by promoting Philhellenism, a sentiment in favor to the modern Greeks, which lived under oppressive Turkish Rule, and their struggle for liberation , what resulted in 1828 to the founding of an independent Greek State, with the help of lots of Foreigners from allover Europe and support from mainly German , British, Russian and French Governments. It comprises 31 [all] plates with maps and a few views, + an Ancient World map - comprising also Australia [which wasn't known to the Ancients] . A large sample is photographed - for the rest please consult the register [2 photos] The atlas is complete for all of its maps and text - but missing the title page. In original binding ! Most of the maps are clean , with little soiling and foxing, but the first 2 folded maps with tears partly restored by an old hand, map III with a small tear lower left near margin, ink stain and some more heavy browning on the right border. maps 6+7+9+10,13+17,20+21+25 [all folded maps] enforced on back - not visible from front, plate 27[coins] with old-repaired tear altogether not so perfect, but in reasonable fair to good condition Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795) was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the Phoenician alphabet in 1758 Travels of Anacharsis the Younger Barthélemy was the author of a number of learned works on antiquarian subjects, but the great work on which his fame rests is Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece (French: Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grèce, 4 vols., 1787). He had begun it in 1757 and had been working on it for thirty years. The hero, a young Scythian descended from the famous philosopher Anacharsis, is supposed to repair to Greece for instruction in his early youth, and after making the tour of her republics, colonies and islands, to return to his native country and write this book in his old age, after the Macedonian hero had overturned the Persian Empire.[3] In the manner of modern travellers, he gives an account of the customs, government, and antiquities of the country he is supposed to have visited. A copious introduction supplies whatever may be wanting in respect to historical details, while various dissertations on the music of the Greeks, on the literature of the Athenians, and on the economy, pursuits, ruling passions, manners, and customs of the surrounding states supply ample information on the subjects of which they treat.[21] Modern scholarship has superseded most of the details in the Voyage, but the author himself did not imagine his book to be a register of accurately ascertained facts. Rather, he intended to afford to his countrymen, in an interesting form, some knowledge of Greek civilisation. more on : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Barth%C3%A9lemy