Lot 152
  • 152

[De l’Isle, Guillaume.

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Atlas. Paris, 1745-1797]
Folio (520 x 365mm.), 49 mostly double-page engraved maps of all parts of the world, without title or index (as usual), most maps hand-coloured in outline, contemporary green vellum over boards, original ties, a few maps shaved, some soiling and marginal soiling

Catalogue Note

An interesting composite atlas with 28 of the maps by Buache, including others by d’Anville, Sanson, Le Rouge, Delemarche and others. Two maps to note are Lattre's Carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique suivant le traité de Paix... Dediée et presentée à.. Benjamin Franklin, Paris, Delamarche, 1784 and Andrew Dury’s An Actual Survey of the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, &c. By Major James Rennell, 1776-1780.