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Essay on the Topography of Sparta and its Environs for the Travel of Anacharsis.

  • ARTIST: Jean Denis Barbie du Bocage

  • PUBLISHER: Published by G.G. & J. Robinson. London.

  • MEDIUM: Copper engraving,

    DATE: 1786.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 12 1/2 x 7 13/16" (31.8 x 19.8 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: T. Cook sc. A key of locations is in the lower left. A numbered key identifies 37 important locations include things like "Persian Portico," "Temple of Lycurgus," " House of King Menelaus" and " Temple of Hercules." This map appeared in "Maps, Plans, Views and Coins, Illustrative of the Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era."

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition, save some offsetting.

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  • CATEGORIES: Maps