Antique, hand coloured, copperplate map, La Laconie, La Messenie,et l'Isle de Cythere, from the‘Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece’ by Abbe Bartholomew. This illustration documents the Travels of the Young Anacharsis in the middle of the Fourth century before Christianity. Barbie du Bocage, the cartographer and cosmographer, provided the maps which are edited and engraved by Ambroise Tardieu in 1824.
Copper plate engraving, printed by Jules Didot and published by E.A.Lequien, 1824.
Size 30 x 23 cm. Condition Good.