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France elaborately mapped: a famous and rare atlas including key maps for travellers View picture(s) 1 BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis & Louis Charles DESNOS. Coup d'oeil général sur la France, pour servir d'introduction au tableau analytique et géographique de ce Royaume. Dressé par différens géographes, dont les ouvrages sont aussi connus qu'estimés, faisant partie de l'Atlas historique de la France ancienne & moderne, mise au jour & dirigé par le sieur Desnos, ingénieur-géographe pour les Globes & Sphéres. Paris, Grangé, Guillyn, Desnos, a.o., 1765. Large 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title label, with blind-stamped tripple fillets on sides, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With a double-paged frontispiece by Le Charpentier after De Sève, with a view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, a double-page engraved title: "Tableau Analytique de La France dans lequel on donne une connoissance générale et detaillédu Royaume, ... dirigé par le S. Desnos. Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1765", followed by a large folding engraved geo-spherical map of France by Rizzi Zannoni and 29 double-page engraved analytical maps of France, all set within ornamental borders and all nicely coloured by hand, 2 "Cartes odographiques" with the distances between French cities, both dated 1763, a double-page engraved title "Le Petit Neptune François ou carte des côtes maritimes du Royaume (1765)", followed by 3 double-page charts of the French coasts, all coloured by hand, a large folding engraved map of France by Croisey after Rizzi Zannoni (1765), also hand-coloured, a double-page engraved title "L'Indicateur Fidèle ou Guide des Voyageurs", followed by a double-page engraved general road-map of France with circles with Paris in the center, indicating the distances between the capital and other French cities, and 10 folding and 8 double-page engraved French road-maps, all coloured by hand. 15 (4), 8, 10 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [Europe]  Atlases [Sea]  Cartography  France  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful maritime atlas View picture(s) 2 ROUX, Joseph. Carte de la mer Mediterranee en douze feuilles, dédiée à Mgr. le duc de Choiseul Colonel General des Suisses et Grisons. Ministre de la Guerre et de la Marine. Par son très humble Serviteur Joseph Roux Hydrographe du Roy. Marseille, 1764. Folio. Contemporary calf with blind tooled double fillet border, blind tooled inner border of flower motives, and flower ornaments in every corner and in centre on both sides, with ties. With 12 large folding engraved maps of the Mediterranean Sea (sizes vary from 55 x 79.6 cm to 56 x 83 cm). Full description >> Related Subjects: Atlases [Sea]  Cartography  Maritime History  Mediterranean  Navigation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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