Live auction - Lot 367
[History]
Le cours des tems ou Tableau de l'histoire universelle [...].
1822
Hammer price: €
2.200
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
Engr., c. 131 x 69,5 cm, hand-coloured (some spotting around edges, 2 tears without loss at the bottom and in the fold in the middle).
Contemp. half calf, marbled paper boards (joints split, corners missing, rubbed).
Later ed. of this curious print (translation after the German original "Der Storm der Zeiten" from 1803) depicting the world history as a group of streams.
Bound with: 1-6. 6 similar engr. maps. 19th c. C. 67,5/87 x 48/59 cm, hand-coloured (occ. spotting). On ancient Greece and Rome, France, the Netherlands, mythology and the Holy Land. - 7. L'Hermite de Soliers, J.-B. - Tableau chronologique, historique et géographique de la France. Nouvelle édition entièrement refondue. (Paris), Didot, s.d. C. 93 x 111 cm, borders heightened (tear in fold). - 8. Dericquehem - Nouvelle carte geometrique des distances [...]. S.l.n.d. Engr., c. 53 x 135 cm (spotted). Engr. by Lachaussée.