VOYAGE DE LA TROADE
Fait Dans Les Annees 1785 Et 1786
Paris : Dentu, imprim.-libraire, Palais du Tribunat; 1802
Size 5 1/4 by 8 1/8"
Text in French
3 volumes
[4]- 303; [4]-332pp, [4]-315-[1]-16pp.
Without the atlas.
Original bindings in marbled calfskin, gilt frames around the covers, smooth spines decorated in Empire style, marbled endpapers
Third edition, the most complete.
The rare atlas by J.-B. Lechevalier (1752-1836) is published separately.
"We find in the third edition many other things than the table of the plain of Troy: it contains, in fact, observations on all the countries traveled by Lechevalier, who described in particular the main islands of the Adriatic Gulf, the city and the surroundings of Athens and some islands of the Aegean Sea" (Vinet).
Ref. Chadenat 5086. Vinet 213
Very good condition , minor wear of the bindings, one leaf has some damage to the right margin (not affecting the text)

Jean Baptiste LeChevalier (July 1, 1752, in Trelly, Manche department to July 2, 1836, in Paris, Saint-Étienne-du-Mont) was a French scholar, astronomer and archaeologist.
LeChevalier studied in Paris and taught from 1772 to 1778 at several colleges. He was appointed by the French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Choiseul-Gouffier to undertake archaeological research in the region. He visited Italy and the north-west coast of Anatolia, where he devoted his studies particularly to the identification of Troy.
After the outbreak of the French revolution he returned to France. In 1790 he travelled to London, toured Europe in the following years and returned only in 1795 to France.
Since 1806 he was employed as the first curator of the Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris.



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