Live auction - Lot 935
[Atlas - France - Railways]
Atlas national illustré des 86 départements [...] avec le tracé de toutes les routes, chemins de fer et canaux.
Paris, A. Combette, 1856
Hammer price: €
180
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Folio: [2] ff.; 100 maps (occ. spotting, mostly marg., some marg. soiling).
Contemp. quarter red shagreen, percaline boards, titled spine with raised bands (rubbed, stains on front cover).
Later ed. (1st 1838) incl. a large world map by A. Vuillemin, 86 departmental maps, 6 maps on the French colonial territories, 6 continental maps and 1 large map of France. All maps have a decorative frame with allegorical representations.
Ref. Tooley, Dictionary, III:127.