Nouvelle géographie et statistique de la France, Alger et la Belgique, suivie d'un Traité sur le monde entier.

Folio: 3 lithogr. title pages and 2 text pages; 45 pl. (missing: "traité sur le monde entier" but 1 world map and 1 map of France are bound at the end of the 2nd vol., some lvs frayed, water stains and thumbing esp. on margins).

Mod. half imitation leather.

Fifth revised edition with the administrative and political divisions of France. Includes a lithographed frontispiece decorated with the map of France at the centre, and 88 (of 95) lithographed maps, including 86 maps of the departments. Each map is surrounded by an ornamental cartouche with portrait, an illustration of the local production and a descriptive text "Remarques & curiosites". Besides 1 map of Algiers and 1 of Belgium, each with descriptive text, follow at the end. Maps and illustrations by A. Clement, A. Thez, V. Quetin, and A. Rivaux.
Bound with: Id. - Histoire de France, depuis Pharamond jusqu'à Louis-Philippe 1er (420-1842). Tours, Corbin, 1842. 40 pl. The history of France includes text, statistical tables and 72 portraits with a summary of the kings of France from the Merovingian dynasty to the Capetian dynasty. Also 1 folding map of France, and 1 folding map of the world bound at the end of the volume.
Prov. Henry (signature).