Vuillemin, Alexandre A.

Estimate

2,000 - 2,500 GBP

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2,250 GBP

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Description

Atlas de géographie commerciale et universelle. (Paris, c.1863)
Paper

Folio (650 x 460mm.), folio, 16 double-page steel-engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, contemporary roan-backed cloth, title lettered in gilt on upper cover, maps only, lacking title and text, binding somewhat worn

Catalogue Note

Atlas with detailed maps and an array of informative vignettes. The world map has illustrations of costumes, the heights of mountains and lengths of rivers. The remaining maps have vignettes describing features of the locales, such as population size, army, agriculture, revenue, debt and religion.