Atlas

J.B. LECHEVALIER : Recueil de cartes, plans, vues et médailles pour servir au Voyage de la Troade - Atlas only and complete of the Voyage de La Troade in large format In-4, title page, 14 explanatory pages of the 37 maps, plans, views and medals that follow. 1/2 solid binding of the time, very fresh plates - Atlas of the third edition highly appreciated, the most sought-after edition of this travel relation, RARE Atlas rarely proposed with the text part (which is much more easily found). J. B. Lechevalier was the secretary of Choiseul-Gouffier ambassador in Constantinople - Chez Dentu An X (1802) - The atlas is composed of 37 engravings (12 double-page) on 29 plates including 4 maps and 4 plans (5 double-page) : Map of the Adriatic Gulf and the archipelago - Map of the island of Corfu - Map of the kingdom of Ulysses - View of the port of Ithaca and the ruins of the palace of Ulysses - View of the fountain of Arethusa and the rock of the chord - New map of the island of Zante - View of the temple of Minerva-Suniade - Plan of Athens and its surroundings - View of Athens - Greek Sarcophagus, called the tomb of Homer - Figure of a camel found in the ruins of Alexandria-Troas - Figure of a camel represented with its harness - Map of the Dardanelles strait, formerly the Hellespont - Map of the plain of Troye - Map of the same plain and of the country which extends between the ruins of Troye and Mount Ida - General view of the plain of Troye - View of Cape Signee and the tombs of Achilles and Patroclus - View of the tomb of Ajax - View of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo-Thymbrean - View of the springs of Scamander - View of the tombs of Hector and Aisyetes - Plan and section of the tombs of Achilles, of Patroclus and Ajax - Figure of Minerva in the tomb of Achilles - Corcyra, Buthrotum, Ithaca - Zacynthus, Trezene - Athens, Mytilene - Tenedos, Samothrace, Imbros - Alexandria-Troas - Scepis, Ilium - Dardanus - Sestos, Abydos - Aigos-Potamos, Cardia - Alopeconesus, Lysimachia