[MANUSCRIPT ATLAS; 17 HAND-DRAWN AND HAND-COLORED MAPS OF THE WORLD]

Verlag: [France?], 1800

Beschreibung

Oblong quarto. 265mm x 210mm. 17 maps, drawn and colored on the recto only; two are folding. Bound in later cloth-backed decorative paper boards. Front board with earlier oval pastedown label with printed border and printers name: "By de Weduwe de Moor en Zoon" ("by the Widow of Moor and Son," a publishing house). All maps are hand-drawn in ink with neat labeling in French in black ink; all hand-colored. Light soiling and some ink remnants to paper label. Sporadic spotting, mostly along margins, generally not impacting maps. The detailed and elegant maps include a map of the world, one of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America as it stood at the turn of the 19th century, South America, a very detailed map of France, the Low Countries, The British Isles, Spain and Portugal, Italy, German speaking Central Europe, Poland in 3 parts as it was after 1795 until 1807 when the Duchy of Warsaw was created, Scandinavia, European Russia, Switzerland and Hungary and Turkey which shows Greece before Independence in 1822. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7683

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [MANUSCRIPT ATLAS; 17 HAND-DRAWN AND ...

Verlag: [France?]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1800

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Very Good binding