BONNE, Rigobert Atlas de toutes les parties connues du globe terrestre, dressé pour l'Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. 1780Genève,J. L. Pellet,4to, cont. giltruled calf...
Estimation :
700 / 900
Adjudication :
700 €
Description
(rubbed, scratches, stain, cracked lower corner, bumped corners), gilt flat spine, green and red leather title labels, [4]-28 pp., 50 pl. (some marg. soiling, offsetting, 2 sm. rusty stains). Nice copy.
Atlas for abbé Raynal's successful "Histoire philosophique et politique (...) des Européens dans les deux Indes" (1st ed. 1770). Illustrated with 50 engr. numb. double-page maps (nrs 1-49 + 17 bis, 2 maps wrongly numbered and bound) made by the engineer R. Bonne (1727-1794). Containing a map showing the Old and the New world, a worldmap after Mercator, continental en detailed maps of Europe (11 : Italy, Greece, France, Spain etc.), Asia (9 : China, India, Philippines etc.), Africa (5 : Guinea, South Africa, West coast etc.), America (24 : Canada, North America, Florida, Perou, Chili, Brasil, Cuba, Mexico, etc.). With 23 tables. Collector's stamps.
Atlas for abbé Raynal's successful "Histoire philosophique et politique (...) des Européens dans les deux Indes" (1st ed. 1770). Illustrated with 50 engr. numb. double-page maps (nrs 1-49 + 17 bis, 2 maps wrongly numbered and bound) made by the engineer R. Bonne (1727-1794). Containing a map showing the Old and the New world, a worldmap after Mercator, continental en detailed maps of Europe (11 : Italy, Greece, France, Spain etc.), Asia (9 : China, India, Philippines etc.), Africa (5 : Guinea, South Africa, West coast etc.), America (24 : Canada, North America, Florida, Perou, Chili, Brasil, Cuba, Mexico, etc.). With 23 tables. Collector's stamps.
