Live veiling - Lot 566
[Atlas - Spain]
Atlas pour servir au tableau de l'Espagne moderne.
Paris, Strasbourg, Levrault, 1803
€ 200 / 300
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Beschrijving lot
4to: [4] pp.; 15 pl. (some marg. damp stains not touching pl.).
Contemp. half marbled sheep, marbled paper boards, flat spine with red leather label (joints sl. rubbed, corners bumped).
First edition of this atlas designed by de Bourgoing (1745-1811), French diplomat, writer and cartographer, to accompany the 3 vol. "Tableau de l'Espagne moderne". With 3 fold. plans of the roads of Spain, Madrid and the Bay of Cádiz, 1 fold. view of Gibraltar signed P.F. Tardieu, and 11 large, beautifully engr. ill. (4 fold.) of Spanish buildings, monuments and landscapes and bullfights.
Ref. Cp. Tooley, Dictionary, I:174.