Live auction - Lot 1068
[Atlas - Schoolbook]
Atlas des enfans, ou Méthode nouvelle, courte, facile et démonstrative pour apprendre la géographie [...].
Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1779
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
12mo: [12]-xii-284 pp.; front. and 24 folding pl. (maps occ. dampstained or with tears in margins).
Contemp. mottled calf, gilt decorated spine (weak and part. split joints, tails missing).
Corrected enlarged ed. of this geographical manual for children (1st ed.: 1760), followed by the "Nouveau traité de la sphere", i.e. an introduction on astronomy. The text is in a question and answer format. Engr. ill.: front. showing Atlas as a child holding up the celestial sphere, 24 hand-coloured maps after G. Delisle: planisphere, 4 continental maps, 17 maps of European countries and 2 cosmographical diagrams.
Ref. STCN. - Phillips 307 (Amst. 1776 edition). - Koeman VI, Schn 2A.
Prov. Théophile Massart de Binche (ms. note on title).