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A French description of the world with 18 maps

BUFFIER, Claude.
Géographie universelle, exposée dans les differentes métodes qui peuvent abréger l'étude & faciliter l'usage de cette sience. Avec le secours des vers artificiels. Sixième édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée des changemens de domination arivés récemment dans les Etats de'l'Europe: 2. d'une préface sur la méthode d'aprendre la Géographie ... 3. d'une table des noms de pays en françois & en latin ...

18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's.

18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's.

18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's.

18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's.

18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's.



Paris, Pierre-François Giffart, 1739. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. 18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's. XXIV, 413 (3), (16) pp.

The enlarged sixth edition of the well-known geographical work by the Jesuit Claude Buffier (1661-1737), a philosopher, and author, born in Poland, of French parents, published by Giffard, the publisher of all the main editions. Buffier received his early education at the Jesuit College in Rouen and entered the Society of Jesus in 1679. After teaching literature in Paris, he returned to Rouen to take a chair of theology. Returning to Paris again in 1700 he was connected from 1701 to 1731, with the Journal de Trévoux. Voltaire described him as the only Jesuit who has given a reasonable system of philosophy. He published works on history, asceticism, biography, education, literature, and especially on philosophy. The Encyclopedists, according to Tabaraud, inserted in their publications, without due credit, entire pages from his books. His chief works are: a Life of Count Louis de Sales, brother of the saint (Paris, 1708); Traité des premières vérités; Pratique de la mémoire artificielle (1701); Grammaire française sur un plan nouveau (1732), in many editions and translations; Exposition des preuves les plus sensibles de la Vraie Religion (1732); Cours des sciences (1722), and the present Géographie universelle, which was first published in 1715 and was republished many times until 1805. The work was also translated into Italian and this version was republished until 1811. The work gives a method to learn geography and an account on the general division of the world, before describing the world, starting with an extensive description of France and all its parts. After that the other European countries and their main rivers and mountains are described, before Asia, Africa and North- and South America. Buffier also accounts of some newly discovered countries, of which not much is known yet, like the Terre de Feu, Greenland, Spits Bergen and Nova Zemlya. He describes the main seas and oceans of the world and he gives with each country some historical facts, often in the form of questions and answers. The book also contains a list of all the French and Latin names of the countries so that the reader should be able to easily find them on the maps. The same is done with a list of all the old geographical terms and names and their more modern equivalents. After this work the publisher-bookseller has bound a short catalogue with all the titles of the books he has for sale.
As the work was very popular and was reprinted many times, many different plates or states of the maps are known. From the map of North America alone, some 17 different states are recorded so far.

Good copy with an engraved armorial bookplate on inside front cover.
De Backer-Sommervogel II, 350; not in Chadenat.

Related Subjects: Africa  America, North  Antarctica  Asia  Atlases [General]  Atlases [Pocket]  Cartography  Engravings  Europe  France  Geography  Jesuits 

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