Recherches historiques et critiques sur les mystères du paganisme.

De Bure, Paris, 1817

Second edition, revised and corrected by M. le Baron Silvestre de Sacy. Complete with its 2 folding maps ‘Plan d'Eleusis’ and ‘Plan des ruines du temple de Ceres à Eleusis’.

Description: 2 vols., contemporary quarter beige calf over marbled paper covered boards, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Octavo: 21 × 13 cm; pp. (vol.1) lxvii, 472; (vol.2) [2], 349, [3] 111. Illustrated with 2 engraved folding plates.

Condition: Minor wear to extremities, outer hinge of upper cover of vol. I cracked (c. 4cm) but firm. Contents slightly browned and lightly stained. Otherwise well preserved.