GOSSELIN, Pascal-François-Joseph. - Lot 10

GOSSELIN, Pascal-François-Joseph. Géographie des Grecs analysée ; ou les systêmes d'Eratosthenes, de Strabo et de Ptolémée comparés entre eux et avec nos connaissances modernes. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Paris, Debure l'aîné, Didot, Firmin Didot, de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1790. Large in-4. (8)-148 pp. on fine paper, 8 numbered tables, XXVII pp. (important table of contents), (2) ff. 10 black engraved maps bound in fine. Contemporary marbled fawn half-calf, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons, garnet morocco title-piece, gilt title, triple cold fillet framing the boards, double gilt fillet on the edges, blue edges (headpieces rubbed, corners worn). First edition by the renowned geographer Pascal-François-Joseph Gosselin (1751-1830), whose research had focused on ancient geography since 1777. Laureate of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1789 for his work comparing geography under Strabo and Ptolemy, he became one of the editors-in-chief of the Journal des Savants in 1816. A good copy in its contemporary binding. Complete with 10 maps, 9 of which are folding. The 8 tables are on the principal latitudes and longitudes of Eratosthenes, Strabo and Ptolemy. Hoefer, 21. Nouvelle biographie générale, 328. [Greece].