Live auction - Lot 571
[Atlas - School]
Nouvel atlas des enfans, ou Principes clairs pour apprendre facilement & en fort peu de temps la géographie. Suivi d'un traité méthodique de la sphère [...].
Brussels, B. Le Francq, 1780 [1788]
Hammer price: €
260
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
12mo: [12]-252 pp.; front. and 24 folding pl., hand-coloured (ms. notes in pen and ink, edges repaired, small stains).
Contemp. half calf, gilt-decorated spine, paper covers (sm. def. at head, joints partly broken).
Rare Brussels pocket atlas after the 5th Amsterdam ed. published by B. Vlam in the same year (see B. Vlam's bookseller's list at the end). Engr. ill.: front. with Atlas as a child holding up the celestial sphere and 24 numb. hand-coloured maps after G. Delisle.
Ref. Opac KBR. - Phillips 307 (Amst. 1776 edition).
Prov. Victoire de Beeckman (ms. entry).