Atlas pittoresque des chemins de fer de la Belgique, composé de 16 cartes ornées de 400 vues [...].

Brussels, Établissement géographique de Ph. Vandermaelen, 1840 [2nd title: 1842]

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Oblong 12mo: 4-58 pp.; 24 (of 25) pl. (missing map: "Carte des chemins de fer de la Belgique", marg. tear, spotted).

Publisher's wrappers (sl. used).

Rare railway atlas: 3rd ed. of type II, with 24 sm. maps, but with both titles different of the type II described in literature. Wauters's youth work at the age of 22 under the direction of Ph. Vandermaelen.
Ref. M. Silvestre; M.-B. Fincoeur - Inventaire raisonné des collections cartographiques Vandermaelen I, 270b (type II).