PAUSANIAS - Description of Greece Complete 5-Vol Set (1939-1957) Zaharopoulos Premium Embossed Hardcover Edition with All Original Folding Maps Plans Pristine Unread Archival State

Language: Ancient Greek (With Modern Greek Parallel Translation and Scholarly Commentary) Publisher: Oikos Ioanni Zaharopoulou, Athens (1939-1957). Format: Complete 5-Volume Set. Premium uniform ecru/beige cloth hardcovers featuring a deep pressure-embossed classical portrait on the front boards and hot-stamped deep red spine labels. Features original patterned endpapers, traditional typographic signature marks at the lower margins, and intact woven headbands at the spine extremities, confirming its status as an untouched, early-impression publisher's archival copy. Definitive ancient text accompanied by exhaustive archaeological commentary, folding maps, and architectural site plans. Condition: Fine / As New Internally. Exceptional Investment-Grade Set. An extraordinary, museum-quality set of Pausanias’ topographical masterpiece. The interior is spectacularly preserved in crisp, unread condition. The text blocks are tight, square, and flat, showing only uniform light natural time-toning at the margins. Completely free of moisture, foxing, tears, or annotations. Cartographic & Editorial Inventory: • Volume 1: Laconica (1939 - Scarce Pre-War Edition) - Intro, Translation & Commentary by Kostas Psychogios. (Pristine). • Volume 2: Corinthiaca (1940) - Intro, Translation & Notes by Giannis K. Kordatos. (Extremely minor rubbing to the top and bottom right corner tips of the front board). • Volume 3: Attica (1954) - Scholarly Edition by Nicolaos Papachatzis. Includes: 1. Large folding map of Attica (intact), 2. The Long Walls of Athens & Piraeus, 3. Large folding map of Ancient Athens and its fortifications (intact), 4. The Agora structures, 5. Large folding architectural plan of the Agora buildings (intact), 6. Reconstruction of the official buildings around Kolonos Agoraios, 7a/7b. Sanctuaries of Dionysus and Asclepius, 8. The Acropolis of Athens, 9a/9b. Tripodon Street & Megara region. (Minor shelf-wear to the sharp corners of the boards). • Volume 4: Phocica (1955) - Scholarly Edition by Nicolaos Papachatzis. Focused heavily on Delphi. Includes: 1. Map of Ancient Phocis, 2. The Delphic Sanctuary, 3. Foundations of the Temple of Athena Pronaia, 4. Large folding plan of the Temple of Apollo (intact), 5. Floor plan of the Lesche of the Knidians. Plates: Charioteer of Delphi, and the ruins of Athena Pronaia before the Tholos restoration. (Minor rubbing/peeling to the corner tips of the boards, approx. 1-2 cm). • Volume 5: Eliaca (1957) - Scholarly Edition by Nicolaos Papachatzis. Includes: Pristine, independent large folding map of Messenia on tracing paper ("ριζόχαρτο") and the large folding reconstruction plan (Plate 19) of the Chest of Cypselus (both fully intact). (Minor peeling on the top right corner tip of the front board). Left entirely in its original, untouched dusty state to protect its genuine antiquarian patina. A premier bibliographical acquisition for Research Libraries and elite collectors worldwide.…