CHAUSSARD (Pierre-Jean-Baptiste) Fêtes et... - Lot 226 - Briscadieu

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CHAUSSARD (Pierre-Jean-Baptiste) Fêtes et... - Lot 226 - Briscadieu
CHAUSSARD (Pierre-Jean-Baptiste) Fêtes et courtisanes de la Grèce, supplement to the voyages of Anacharsis and Antenor, comprising : 1/ The religious chronicle of the ancient Greeks - 2/ Their private mores - 3/ An Athenian almanac - 4/ The Description of Greek dances. Second edition corrected and increased, music by Méhul, drawings by Garnerey. Paris, Barba, 1803. 4 volumes in-12 : 4f., CIV, 444pp, 1f. ; frontispiece, a folding table of the cult of the sun, 3 plates of musical staves by Méhul / 4f., 438pp, 1f. ; frontispiece / 4f. 383Pp, 1f. ; frontispiece, a table of the planets / 4f., XII, 466pp, 1f. ; frontispiece, 6 folding plates of costumes. Contemporary raked calf, ornate smooth spines, red title and endpapers, gilt roulettes on the edges. A scholarly book concerning the religion of ancient Greece, the mystery cults, the festivals and the initiatory rituals, rare and sought after, it approaches in a scholarly way subjects then neglected such as the priapaea or the ancient hetaerae.
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