Les Voyages de Cyrus, Avec un Discours sur la Mythologie (The travels of Cyrus to which is annexe'd a discourse upon the theology & mythology of the pagans) by Ramsay, M - 1728

Chez Covens & Mortier, 1728. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1728. No Edition Stated. In French. Full brown leather binding with no external lettering. 3 parts in one, although title page states 'Tome Premier'. Pagination 187pp, 116pp, 180pp. Illustrated black and white frontispiece. Heavily cracked binding. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Previous owner's inscription and sticker to front paste down. Some gutter cracking. Pencil scribble to rear paste down. Frontispiece has creases and slight edge tears. Heavy wear, rubbing and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Both joints are split, with rear board partially detached. Heavy scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Some loss to leather at edges, corners and middle of boards. Title plate on spine is missing. Visible cracking along spine. Gilt almost entirely worn off.

Cologne; Cologne: Pierre & Mortier; Pierre Marteau, 1728 : 1707. Old glossy paper covered boards, . Good, covers shelfworn, light dampstaining, scattered light foxing, title page to La Guerre D'Italie missing a corner, map of Italy remargined with a little loss of image at the lower edge.. 12mo., 16.2x11 cm. . French text. weight: 1.3 lb. 2 color frontispieces; Engraved frontis, 4 folding maps.

1728. Amsterdam, Pierre & Mortier, 1728. 8vo. In contemporary vellum. Light wear to extremities and internally a few leaves with miscolouring. An overall nice copy. (8), 187, (3), 180 pp. + 2 frontispieces. Second edition of Ramsay's work on an imaginary tour of the ancient world undertaken by Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire. He meets famous figures such as Pythagoras and Zoroaster who give him lessons on how a wise leader should act. The work because very popular and was published in numerous editions."Les Voyages de Cyrus was first published in 1727 and became a bestseller in France and then in Britain after being translated into English by Nathaniel Hooke, nephew of the Jacobite agent of the same name. Ramsay’s work imagines the travels of Cyrus the Great, the 6th-century BC founder of the first Persian Empire. Cyrus’s early life had been fictionalised by Xenophon of Athens as a way to promote his own political and moral philosophy and Ramsay uses this device to drive his own… Read More

London.: T. Boosey., 1796.. Leather. Spine gilt.. Frontis portrait. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. Cover rubbed, titel and pages foxed. Good.