Live auction - Lot 975
[Atlas - World]
Introduction à la geographie avec une description historique sur touttes les parties de la Terre. Seconde édition [...].
Paris, chez l'auteur, 1717
Hammer price: €
160
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo: [4]-197-[9] pp.; 6 pl. (marg. p. 1 restored, light marg. damp stain pp. 60-146, occ. spotting).
Later marbled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (spine rubbed, corners bumped).
2nd ed., first ed. with maps, of de Fer's wholly engraved atlas with both text and illustrations printed from intaglio plates instead of from movable type. Engr. ill.: title with a double-hemisphere world map and 6 maps: 1. Mappe-monde, 2. La sphère artificielle, 3. L’Europe, 4. L’Asie, 5. L’Afrique, 6. L’Amérique méridionale et septentrionale.
Ref. Pastoureau Fer XI B.
Prov. RP (mod. bookpl.).