Reise des jüngern Anacharsis durch Griechenland, viertehalbhundert Jahr vor der gewöhnlichen Zeitrechnung
Reise des jüngern Anacharsis is a 1790 German translation by Johann Erich Biester of Jean-Jacques Barthélemy's fictional travel account of ancient Greece, set about 350 years before the common era and issued for general readers and scholars. Its pictures are copper-engraved maps of Greek regions such as Thessaly and Elis, with dense hand-lettered place names, river courses and mountain ranges, plus an oval portrait medallion of a bearded classical sage in profile. A designer might take from them the precise cartographic linework, layered lettering and classical oval frame as models for antique-style historical graphics.
