8vo. Volume I: xiv, 372 pp., / Volume II: 390 pp., / Volume III: 362 pp., [2 adverts], 3 steel engraved frontispieces, contemporary quarter calf with marbled boards, slightly rubbed round edges, half-titles, titles gilt on decorated spine, marbled outer edges, occasional light foxing, otherwise set in very good condition, a Greek manuscript found in Herculaneum translated into French by Lantier, Chez F. Buisson, AN IX, Paris, 1801.

Synopsis

Étienne-François de Lantier (1734-1826) was an 18th century French writer and playwright. After writing a few plays, he began to travel. In 1798, inspired by the life of the Count of Saint-Germain, he published Les Voyages d’Antenor, which at that time had a great success with 16 editions and translations into various languages, which earned him the nickname of Anarchasis of the boudoirs, in reference to the work of the Abbé Barthélemy, Voyage of the young Anarchasis in Greece, published in 1787.
Bibliographic references: Cioranescu , XVIII, 36879; Hage Chahine, Levant, 2627.