Live auction - Lot 976

[Atlas - World]

PLUCHE, Antoine

Concorde de la géographie des différens âges. Ouvrage posthume de M. Pluche.

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1764


Hammer price: € 80

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Lot description

12mo: lx-511-[4] pp.; 13 pl. (portrait missing, marg. tear in fold of map of America, occ. spotting).

Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, blue marbled edges (head missing, joints starting to split, corners bumped).

First edition of this instructional geographical work through the ages by Antoine Pluche (1688-1761), French priest and naturalist. Ill. with 13 fold. maps: double hemisphere world map, 4 continents, India, France, Arabia & Egypt, the Holy Land, the Mediterranean, Greece, the Middle East and the Orient.
Ref. Conlon 64:1115. - Cioranescu 50668. - Shirley I: T.Plu-1a. - Tooley IV:445.
Prov. Carola Jutzler (mod. bookpl.).

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Lot 976

Concorde de la géographie des différens âges. Ouvrage posthume de M. Pluche.

PLUCHE, Antoine

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